The first was three thick stacks of one-hundred-dollar bills, with a rubber band around each, and another stack of fifties.

There were thick stacks of star maps covering all sorts of unlikely areas in there, along with old-style beacon charts.

The desk was completely covered with thick stacks of reports.

Central Belgium is covered by thick loess stacks.

They fed thick stacks of orange demonstration ballots, which like the real pink ballots are studded with 312 chads, through loudly clacking card reading machines counting 1,000 ballots a minute.

A more dependable option is provided by scalpers, who roam the parking lot holding tickets in thick stacks.

The disputes are mirrored in thick stacks of papers, 20,000 pages sent in by 121 governments, that are now being examined in an elegant villa on the outskirts of Geneva.

Most of the time they shunned real paperwork, preferring to keep as much as possible on computer, yet whenever the big guns arrived out would come thick stacks of paper.

Fukuda nodded, and the dragon man pocketed the marker, slapped three thick stacks of yen on the table.

He removed thick stacks of tightly banded currency from the bag and held them, turned them over in his hands.