What is "mounded over"

Usage examples of "mounded over".

Laughing and chatting, they went out into the white world, where the snow lay mounded over the invisible tomb- stones and the white fields stretched down to the freezing Thames.

Mud had been mounded over her body, had hardened into a crust that covered her.

A sleep so long that dribbling soil had mounded over it, that fallen boulders, cracked off the cliff by frost, had been buried in the soil and that a clump of birch had sprouted and grown into trees thirty feet high.

A new image showed a shiny, viscid lump of yellow plastic mounded over the spot in the plate where the crater had been displayed—.

The small grave was filled in, the snowy dirt mounded over it, and he had finished Rosemund's grave and dug another, larger one.

A new image showed a shiny, viscid lump of yellow plastic mounded over the spot in the plate where the crater had been displayed–.

It was a tight little room with a desk mounded over with file folders and pipe-smoking paraphernalia, a coffee maker on a yellow oak table, a three-drawer file cabinet, and cork walls tacked all over with curling color Polaroid shots of charred corpses in mangled cars with all the paint burned off and pieces of bodies caught in the limbs of trees.

She wandered far afield, finding occasional sad traces of what had once been well-tended pleasure grounds a marble bench, stained and broken, amid a rank growth of rhododendron, a fallen arbor, mounded over with tangled roses.