heaps on heaps of food

He was burning from the inside out. His breath came hard, in smokish bursts.

But yonder, whiff! there comes a sudden heat, / The gravest citizen seems to lose his head, […]

I am tired of being cat and moused, and for that reason I expect to vote against proposals which I am in favor of in principle, until we can have hearings on them, to determine whether they are economically viable and constitutionally sustainable.