Even when I took command, she was fit only for the junk pile; but the world-old parsimony of government retained her in active service, and sent two hundred men to sea in her, with myself, a mere boy, in command of her, to patrol thirty from Iceland to the Azores.

He breathes new life to wood that could have ended up in a junk pile or as firewood in a kiln.

Now, in an atmosphere of loving self-acceptance, you are going to get quiet with God and ask Him to show you your junk pile.

A cow reduced the inside of a Stirling sweetshop `to something resembling a junk pile' after it escaped while being led from one of the town's marts.

By transforming the junk pile around them into props that tell their story, like converting a piece of bamboo into a weapon, they find that positive change is possible.

His welder was his right-hand helper, and with it, along with a few scrap pieces from the junk pile, he could fix or make just about anything.

Seeing a 1941 Schwinn paperboy bike in a junk pile in Santa Cruz one day, Marc suggested I try riding it down Mt.

WESTBORO -- The Westboro Fire Department had an unlikely damsel in distress Sunday afternoon when they responded to help a female Jack Russell terrier escape a tunnel in a junk pile near Mill Pond.

YOU DON'T NEED THE JUNK PILE, BUT VOUR JUNK IS NEEDED AT THE FACILITIES THAT REFURBISH AND REPAIR THESE COMPONENTS INTO SERVICEABLE ITEMS TO FILL VOUR REQUISITION NEEDS.

As a student, his inspirations (de Kooning, Jim Nutt, weirdos) shone through heavily, and I suppose that was why he came to disown most of his undergrad work and left the majority of his paintings and ceramics in a knee-deep junk pile that the landlord eventually emptied out of our college hippie house, God's Oasis.

Consider that the destroyed Chinese satellite contributed about 3,000 chunks to the junk pile.

The detail of the shed's interior and the junk pile outside is wonderfully depicted, as are the characters of the grandfather and his grandson--even the dog and pet hen have personality.