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Sentences starting with mass

Mass was being said and sung; and a priest was playing the organ. [4]
Mass was said in the church, all the parish attending; and Valmond was present, with Lagroin in full regimentals. [11]

Sentences ending with mass

Lucky I found you, or you'd have been sleeping till the Great Mass. [11]
And these colleges, which you think above the colored people, will stimulate them and gradually raise the whole mass. [4]
The maidservants who were opening the shutters glanced gaily out into the streets, and arranged the flowers in front of the windows or bowed reverently as a priest passed by on his way to mass. [10]
She felt a violent shock, the pitcher flew out of her hand and was shattered into a thousand fragments, and she sank to the ground under the weight of a warm, rough, heavy mass. [10]
For the first time in I know not how many years, she overslept the hour of mass. [10]
Yet all her thoughts and pondering were futile, and when she lay down again she slept until mass. [10]
Ah, la; la, there's the second bell--I must be getting to Mass! [11]
She sang only the old chansons and the songs of the voyageurs, with a far greater sweetness and richness, however, than any in the parish; and the Cure could detect her among all others at mass. [11]
How rarely is the good man permitted to enjoy the blessing of mass. [10]
That was why the customs officers never found anything at Angel Point, and that was why Tarboe much loved going to mass. [11]

Short sentences using mass

At last the mass ended. [10]
You'll find him at mass. [11]
Editorial Address, Mass. [6]
Plymouth, Mass. [6]
Newton, Mass. [6]
Mass! [11]
Malden, Mass. [6]
Concord, Mass. [6]
Attend mass? [5]

Sentences containing mass two or more times

This argument, reduced to plain terms, is simply this: that the mass of mankind are unfit to decide properly their own political and social condition; and that for the mass of mankind any but a very limited mental development is to be deprecated. [4]
At a distance the mass of the Russian people seem as monotonous as their steppes and their commune villages, but the Russian novelists find characters in this mass perfectly individualized, and, indeed, give us the impression that all Russians are irregular polygons. [4]
Speaking generally of the mass of business men--and the mass are business men in this country--have they any habit of reading books? [4]
The weight of the earth is found by comparing a mass of known lead with that of a mass of unknown lead. [5]
The French, retreating in 1812--though according to tactics they should have separated into detachments to defend themselves--congregated into a mass because the spirit of the army had so fallen that only the mass held the army together. [2]
Her members, and even her priests, had gone from murder to mass and from mass to murder, and she had engaged in cruel wars and persecutions to curtail the liberties of mankind. [9]
A yielding mass at his feet--a mass that stirs! [11]

More example sentences with the word mass in them

She saw a youth with a sword hurrying towards the Cohue Royale from a tangled mass of combatants. [11]
Last Easter day you were in a drunken sleep while Mass was being said; after the funeral of your own father you were drunk again. [11]
For the mass, you have some right to speak; it is your duty perhaps; but the confession, that is another thing; that is the will of every soul to do or not to do. [11]
In this way you have at once a cheerful blaze, and the fire gradually eats into the solid mass, sinking down with increasing fervor; coals drop below, and delicate tongues of flame sport along the beautiful grain of the forestick. [4]
Once everybody had worshipped him: that was when he had sung in the Mass, the day of the funeral of the wife of Farette the miller, for whom he worked. [11]
A sensation (the word you see is material and inappropriate) of etherealization and imponderability pervaded me, and I was not sorry to get rid of such a dull, slow mass as I now perceived myself to be, lying there on the bed. [4]
Buckstone was training with the rum party, and he had been sent to hunt up the twins and invite them to attend a mass meeting of that faction. [5]
Even the city, with its mass of stone and brick, rectangles, straight lines, dust, noise, and fever of activity, is penetrated by this divine suggestion of the renewal of life. [4]
We are overpowered with a mass of undigested intelligence, collected for the mast part without regard to value. [4]
With the shifting wind and the passing clouds the scene was in perpetual change; now the American Fall was creamy white, and the mist below dark, and again the heavy mass was gray and sullen, and the mist like silver spray. [4]
But the reader will perceive by the above extract, that in Humboldt from one fourth to nearly half the mass was silver! [5]
My own feelings will not admit of this; and if mine would, we well know that those of the great mass of white people will not. [7]
My own feelings will not admit of this, and if mine would, we well know that those of the great mass of whites will not. [7]
One of the wig-making villains lathered my face for ten terrible minutes and finished by plastering a mass of suds into my mouth. [5]
He tried his wife's love and patience as a man must to whom the future is easy in the mass but terrible as it translates itself piecemeal into the present. [8]
But the mass, whose meaning she did not understand, offered no solace to the soul which yearned for love alone. [10]
The five men who had ridden forward would have to force their way through the mass of scorched and dried up vegetation. [10]
All this naked white human flesh, laughing and shrieking, floundered about in that dirty pool like carp stuffed into a watering can, and the suggestion of merriment in that floundering mass rendered it specially pathetic. [2]
During the days which succeeded the mass for the dead the Ortlieb mansion was very silent. [10]
A toadstool--that vegetable which springs to full growth in a single night--had torn loose and lifted a matted mass of pine needles and dirt of twice its own bulk into the air, and supported it there, like a column supporting a shed. [5]
The procession ends, where it started, in the patron's church; and there his image is set up under a gorgeous canopy of crimson and gold, to hear high mass, and some of the choicest solos, choruses, and bravuras from the operas. [4]
After a while we came to a shapeless mass of ruins, which still bears the name of Bethel. [5]
Now, indeed, it was to be a mass meeting. [9]
Close at hand was the snowy mass of the Great Altels cooling its topknot in the sky and daring us to an ascent. [5]
This higher education was offered to the mass that still lacked the rudiments of intellectual training, in the belief that education--the education of the moment, the education of superimposed information, can realize the theory of universal equality. [4]
Miss Lucretia Penniman was in town, and would attend the mass meeting. [9]
The dawn which waked her seemed like a deliverance, and directly after mass she hurried out of the gate and into the open country. [10]
From where we viewed it, it seemed a slender and not very important, but certainly a very beautiful cascade, a band of silver in the mass of green foliage. [4]
By a general view of the resolution, it will be seen that a principal object of the committee is to examine into, and ferret out, a mass of corruption supposed to have been committed by the commissioners who apportioned the stock of the Bank. [7]
Now, whether this view is right or wrong, it is very certain that the great mass of mankind take a totally different view. [7]
It is a vast mass of building, compactly crusting a hill, and is cloven in all directions by an intricate confusion of cracks which stand for streets. [5]
What is the value of this vast accumulation of higher learning, what is its point of contact with the mass of humanity, that toils and eats and sleeps and reproduces itself and dies, generation after generation, in an unvarying round, on an unvarying level? [4]
The hillsmen rode upon the frenzied rebels, and were swallowed up by the great mass of them, so that they seemed lost. [11]
Upon them the undivided, tensely passionate attention of that whole mass of men was concentrated. [2]
He wants it understood that the mass of the Republican party are really his friends. [7]
A stretch of two hundred yards of the high front wall was heavily draped with ivy, and out of the mass of buildings within rose three picturesque old towers. [5]
A smaller stream trickled over the cliff and built up an isolated pyramid about thirty feet high, which has the semblance of a mass of large gnarled and knotted vines and roots and stems intricately twisted and woven together. [5]
As Ruth Leigh tramped along late this afternoon in the slush of the streets, from one house of sickness and poverty to another, a sense of her puny efforts in this great mass of suffering and injustice came over her anew. [4]
Breaking away from traditions and not going to church have not destroyed the need in the minds of the mass of people for something outside themselves. [4]
Seeing that he took up so little space, I could believe the story, then, that ten thousand troops went to St. Peter's, once, to hear mass, and their commanding officer came afterward, and not finding them, supposed they had not yet arrived. [5]
By her references to what this and that and the other person had told her, I perceived that she had been diligently questioning those crowds of visiting strangers, and that out of them she had patiently dug all this mass of invaluable knowledge. [5]
From the ground to the top of the unfinished towers is one mass of rich stone-work, the creation of genius that hundreds of years ago knew no other way to write its poems than with the chisel. [4]
I shall hope to see madame at mass next Sunday. [11]
For military science to say this is like defining momentum in mechanics by reference to the mass only: stating that momenta are equal or unequal to each other simply because the masses involved are equal or unequal. [2]
There was nothing to oppose their mass, nothing but a few weak battalions of British soldiers scattered about India, a force not worth speaking of. [5]
M'sieu', you go to Mass, and all your teeth are sound; you have a dog-churn, also three feather-beds, and five rag carpets; you have sat on the grand jury. [11]
I shall have to just reduce all that mass of statistics to a few salient facts. [5]
I'll leave it to him whether you don't know more about life than I do--about the life and problems of the great mass of people in this country. [9]
Rostov was horrified to hear later that of all that mass of huge and handsome men, of all those brilliant, rich youths, officers and cadets, who had galloped past him on their thousand-ruble horses, only eighteen were left after the charge. [2]
My wife likes to go to Mass, but always does so secretly, as if she were committing a crime. [10]
I command you to come to Mass next Sunday, to repent and to hear your penance given from the altar. [11]
Little things suffice to amuse the lower classes, who do not have to bother their heads with elections and mass meetings. [4]
He has little time for the poetry of haying, as he struggles along, filling the air with the wet mass which he shakes over his head, and picking his way with short legs and bare feet amid the short and freshly cut stubble. [4]
This he repeated, till it seemed like a mass of brains, while the others, as quick as possible, cut him into very small pieces, which they then scattered in every direction. [5]
If, after walking through the entrance in the hedge that separated the Brackens from the main road, you turned to the left and followed a driveway newly laid out between young poplars, you came to a mass of cedars. [9]
The scope of this book has not permitted the author to introduce the peasantry and trading classes which formed the mass in this movement. [9]
I will condense this account, as follows: On the 12th of August, 1861, at the hour of the close of mass, a guide arrived out of breath at the mairie of Chamonix, and bearing on his shoulders a very lugubrious burden. [5]
One of the third story windows was open, and out of it was pouring a mass of gray wood smoke. [9]
You come to think, after a time, that the island is not natural rock, but a mass of masonry. [4]
In a moment they were a rolling mass upon the ground, while the horse trotted down the road a little, and stood still. [11]
After Mass, when they had finished their coffee in the dining room where the loose covers had been removed from the furniture, a servant announced that the carriage was ready, and Marya Dmitrievna rose with a stern air. [2]
But even now they could not make their way to the long row of houses where the embalmers dwelt, for an impenetrable mass of human beings stood pent up in front of them, and Melissa begged her brother to give her a moment's breathing space. [10]
Opposed to both these parties is the ultramontane, the head of which is the Romish hierarchy, and the body of which is the inert mass of ignorant peasantry, over whom the influence of the clergy seems little shaken by any of the modern moral earthquakes. [4]
Others would succeed them rapidly, coming up the center while their predecessors filed down the sides; so that the whole field was a moving mass of splendid color and glancing steel. [4]
Carnations, lilies of the valley, geraniums even--such were the offerings scattered loosely on the lid until a woman came with a mass of white roses that filled the room with their fragrance,--a woman with burnished red hair. [9]
The sight of the tumbling mass of white water, and the gloomy and colossal grandeur of the Devil's Slide, a buttress of the hills, was very fine. [11]
The horror of the thing had struck him dumb, and his mind was one confused mass of conflicting thoughts. [11]
In military affairs the strength of an army is the product of its mass and some unknown x. [2]
You could _see_ the shudder sweep the mass like a wave. [5]
During mass and the sermon Valmond had sat very still, once or twice smiling curiously at thought of how, inactive himself, the gate of destiny was being opened up for him. [11]
Tarboe was giving the sail full to the wind, and thinking how he would just be able to reach Angel Point and get his treasure housed before mass in the morning. [11]
The intellect, say the priestly sages, is a vivifying breath of the eternal spirit, and our soul is the mould or core for the mass of matter which we call a human being. [10]
For an instant the people in the room were a confused mass, floating away into a blind distance. [11]
The mass of the people commenced a systematic search for the dead body, while Wickersham was despatched to arrest Henry Trailor at the Grove, and Jim Maxcy to Warren to arrest William. [7]
The horses in the next chariot bolted as they were being driven past this mass of plunging and neighing confusion; they defied their driver's impotent efforts and galloped across the course back into the caiceres. [10]
After a while the moving mass became agitated, someone rode past on a white horse followed by his suite, and said something in passing: "What did he say? [2]
Very early in the morning, after a few hours spent in suffering, he heard mass, and then remained for hours in the sable-draped room where he communed with himself alone. [10]
Upon examining into the matter it was found stopped up, wadded compactly with a mass of root-fibres, delicate and hair-like. [5]
Between these and the mass of mankind there is a want of approachability, if the term be admissible, partially, at least, fatal to their success. [7]
As a rule the mass of mankind have been spot where they were born. [4]
It was not the March wind that burned her cheeks; as she thought of the mass meeting the night before, which was all about her, she wished she might go to school that morning through the woods and pasture lots rather than down Brampton Street. [9]
Between it and the main mass of the mountain rose numerous single peaks, like a camp of granite tents, or a wildly tossing sea suddenly turned to stone; behind these blocks ran the streamlet, which he found after a short search. [10]
Fifty yards down the gulch they had found him--that is, they had found a crushed and lifeless mass which represented him. [5]
Bawling, climbing, goring, the great mass of steers on the inside wrestled in a crashing din, heaved and groaned under the pressure. [13]
The mass for the dead was to be celebrated at an unusually early hour, for another, which would be attended by the whole city and all the distinguished persons, knights, and nobles who had come to the Reichstag, was to begin four hours before noon. [10]
Twice a year the Cure made it a point to visit Jo in the interests of his soul, though the visits came to little, for Jo never went to confession, and seldom to mass. [11]
Yet he found the conflict harder than he expected and as, at the close of the mass, the Dona nobis pacem (grant us peace) began, he joined beseechingly in the prayer. [10]
They were over the capstones of the windows,--to take off the pressure from them, no doubt, for now and then a capstone will crack under the weight of the superincumbent mass. [6]
I showed him that," and he lugged out his photograph-case from a mass of papers in his breast-pocket and handed it to her. [4]
Eva told herself that she ought to have followed with the same intentness as Heinz the mass celebrated for the soul of her own mother, but she could no longer succeed in doing so. [10]
The brisk reply that Rice's letters concealed with a show of parliamentary knowledge a "festering mass of misstatements the author of whom should be properly termed the 'Unreliable," fixed that name upon him for life. [5]
They have also that other misery of packing and unpacking trunks--of running the distressing gauntlet of custom-houses--of the anxieties attendant upon getting a mass of baggage from point to point on land in safety. [5]
What lay beneath that mass of ashes? [10]
It is not that little minority who are already saved that are best worth trying to uplift, I should think, but the mighty mass of the uncultivated who are underneath. [5]
Then he said that his first wife was such a cook, that when she died he paid for an extra Mass and twelve very fine candles. [11]
He was conscious that here he was in contact with the springs that set in motion the enormous movements of the mass of which in his regiment he felt himself a tiny, obedient, and insignificant atom. [2]
It relies upon that great unenlightened mass of Catholic people in Southern Germany and in Austria proper, one of whose sins is certainly not skepticism. [4]
That was more than wealth or learning, and as he spoke to the old Seigneur going in to Mass, he still thought so, for the Seigneur's big house and the servants and the great gardens had no charm for him. [11]
How great a sympathy the whole city had shown during her illness, and how many of all classes had attended the mass for her soul! [10]
The materials were surprisingly rich, both in quality and in mass, and Marcus Clarke, Ralph Boldrewood, Cordon, Kendall, and the others, have built out of them a brilliant and vigorous literature, and one which must endure. [5]

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