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Sentences starting with masses

Masses are rude, lame, unmade, pernicious in their demands, and need not to be flattered, but to be schooled. [6]
Masses for the dead.... What dead? [11]

Sentences ending with masses

This temple is to me like some grand epode, and the poet who composed it conceived it not in feeble words but formed it out of almost immovable masses. [10]
Ideas require time to develop, to seize the imagination of masses. [9]
Yet I have seen hanging in those plains cities all blue and red with millions of lights showing, and voices, voices everywhere, like the singing of soft masses. [11]
We see the same if we watch moment by moment the movement of historical characters (that is, re-establish the inevitable condition of all that occurs--the continuity of movement in time) and do not lose sight of the essential connection of historical persons with the masses. [2]
It is not parties that make or save countries or that build them to greatness--it is clean men, clean ordinary citizens, rank and file, the masses. [5]
May was just over, yet the weather was as sultry as in midsummer and clouds were gathering in denser and denser masses. [10]
He has no official place in the public life here, but he is powerful with the masses. [11]
Other columns after losing half their men were retreating in disorderly confused masses. [2]
Shrewd Egyptians, who had divined His existence and shrouded His image with monstrous shapes, born of their own thoughts and imaginations, had drawn a thick veil over Him, hidden Him from the masses. [10]
In that singular country if a rich man dies a sinner, he is damned; he can not buy salvation with money for masses. [5]

Sentences containing masses two or more times

Or again you would have observed those myriad masses plunging across the veld, still in cohering masses, which shook and broke and scattered, regathering again, as though drawn by a magnet, but leaving stark remnants in their wake. [11]
What masses and masses of rich colour and barbaric magnificence! [5]
Night after night Angelique lighted candles in the place where Antoine smiled on in his frozen silence; and masses were said for his soul--the masses Love murmurs for its dead. [11]

More example sentences with the word masses in them

It was a wonderful show, but the moving masses of people of all nations we saw there were a still more wonderful show. [5]
But contrary to what had always happened in their former battles, instead of the news they expected of the enemy's flight, these orderly masses returned thence as disorganized and terrified mobs. [2]
The mossless spots were places where repairs had been made by the insertion of bright new masses of yellow straw. [5]
Now the paupers were gone, and where the old mansions that had fallen to their use once stood, there towered aloft and abroad those heights and masses of many-storied brick-work for which architecture has yet no proper form and aesthetics no name. [8]
How many tapers were burnt for him, how many masses said! [10]
Infant as I was, I presumed to grapple with masses of learning almost beyond the strength of the giants of history. [6]
Besides, the atmosphere was sultry, and the scorching sun struggled with the thunderclouds gathering in heavy masses at the north. [10]
Here the light was dim, and the masses of people were pretty closely packed together. [5]
The advanced guard was composed of legions of cavalry, heavily armed, looking like moving masses of polished steel. [4]
Behind the store was an old-fashioned garden, set about by a neat stone wall, hidden here and there by the masses of lilac and currant bushes, and at the south of it was a great rose-covered boulder of granite. [9]
Undeniably it is very effective, especially in masses of gorgeous color. [4]
Some were below us, some on our level; they were all in well-defined, distinct masses, molten silver on deck, below trailing rain, and attended on earth by gigantic shadows that moved with them. [4]
Sometimes these towering upheavals of forestry were festooned and garlanded with vine-cables, and sometimes the masses of undergrowth were cocooned in another sort of vine of a delicate cobwebby texture--they call it the "supplejack," I think. [5]
I could have told her that those masses of rich furs constituted wealth--or would in my country--but she would not have understood that; those were not the kind of things that ranked as riches with her people. [5]
It frightened him to see how the huge masses of rock and old forest-growths hung over the home below. [6]
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]
Nobody had promised to say masses for her soul if she made this disposition of her property, or pledged the word of the Church that she should have plenary absolution. [6]
One must try to imagine those solid masses of splendid color, one above another, up and up, against the blue sky, and the Indian sun turning them all to beds of fire and flame. [5]
The property was to be divided among various churches and convents, where masses were to be read for her soul, and her nearest blood relations. [10]
Such masses, such throngs, such multitudes of hurrying, bustling, struggling humanity! [5]
These were the three masses of buildings. [5]
Now how did those masses of oyster-shells get there? [5]
On the way thither, they had to pass through Kensington Gardens, and Miss Bronte was much "struck with the beauty of the scene, the fresh verdure of the turf, and the soft rich masses of foliage. [14]
Nikolaus had departed this life without absolution, and a collection was taken up for masses, to get him out of purgatory. [5]
The ways of thinking and feeling of the masses, of the plain people, were constantly present to his mind. [7]
Every now and then masses of the dark crust broke away and floated slowly down these streams like rafts down a river. [5]
Some crawl to the tops of the rocks and lie like gunny bags stuffed with meal, or they repose on the broken surfaces like masses of jelly. [4]
Under this conception, the sale of indulgences, masses for the soul, and temporal power are perfectly logical --inevitable. [9]
When they returned the moon was coming up, rising and struggling and making its way slowly through ragged masses of colored clouds. [4]
Now, by command, the masses parted and fell aside, and the King saw a spectacle that froze the marrow in his bones. [5]
On the right the Guards were entering the misty region with a sound of hoofs and wheels and now and then a gleam of bayonets; to the left beyond the village similar masses of cavalry came up and disappeared in the sea of mist. [2]
She noted indifferently that they passed close under shady, bulging shelves of cliff, through patches of grass and sage and thicket and groves of slender trees, and over white, pebbly washes, and around masses of broken rock. [13]
Then I found that the masses here in New York did not know any better than the classes how to live. [4]
The tactical rule that an army should act in masses when attacking, and in smaller groups in retreat, unconsciously confirms the truth that the strength of an army depends on its spirit. [2]
A wide, lofty structure, composed of masses of stalactites and unhewn blocks of stone, formed a deep grotto at the end of the hall, whence peered the gigantic head of a monster whose open jaws formed the fireplace of the chimney. [10]
One of us stood by the battery all day long, breaking up masses of silver-bearing rock with a sledge and shoveling it into the battery. [5]
It swirled the snow about in waves and dark masses interspersed with rifts of light, dark here and luminous there. [4]
It was a small ship, which, as the dark masses of clouds became bordered with golden edges, grew more distinct and appeared to be a Cilician pirate of the smallest size. [10]
I confess, without shame, that I expected to find masses of silver lying all about the ground. [5]
The sun had set, and darkness covered the City of the Dead, but the moon shone above the valley of the kings' tombs, and the projecting masses of the rocky walls of the chasm threw sharply-defined shadows. [10]
All about us rose gigantic masses, crags, and ramparts of bare and dreary rock, with not a vestige or semblance of plant or tree or flower anywhere, or glimpse of any creature that had life. [5]
Greenish masses of rock, most peculiar in form, surrounded the narrow, cliff circled mountain valleys, which opened into one another. [10]
Mighty walls of rock composed the view, looking as if they were formed of angular masses of hewn stone piled up in rows; and of all the miners one, and one only, had eyes for these curious structures of the ever-various hand of Nature. [10]
I think I realize that caste does not exist and cannot exist except by common consent of the masses outside of its limits. [5]
His eyes ran rapidly over the wide space, but he only saw that the hitherto motionless masses of the French now swayed and that there really was a battery to their left. [2]
The masses, the plain people, had to furnish the men for the fighting, if fighting was to be done. [7]
Mingling with this overpowering demonstration of united rejoicing from such huge masses, came the blare of the trumpets and horns of the assembled legions. [10]
Here and there over the whole of that blue expanse, to right and left of the forest and the road, smoking campfires could be seen and indefinite masses of troops--ours and the enemy's. [2]
And there were other great crowds of the like caste gathered in masses outside the castle gates. [5]
The falling masses, or huge fragments breaking off from them, would have swept the house and all around it to destruction but for this deep shelving dell, into which the stream of ruin was happily directed. [6]
There were masses of wealth and there seemed no end to it. [2]
One or two of these slabs had fallen, and again I wondered if the gigantic masses of carved stone that lay about me were no larger than those above my head. [5]
This I believe of the masses north and south. [7]
The enormous masses of rock lay dimly before him, like storm-clouds, and over his head spread the blue heavens with their thousand stars. [10]
The vast concourse of people swung their hats and shouted--the windows and housetops in the wide vicinity burst into a snowstorm of waving handkerchiefs, and the wavers of the same mingled their cheers with those of the masses below. [5]
This ruin consisted of merely a couple of crumbling masses of masonry which bore a rude resemblance to human faces; they leaned forward and touched foreheads, and had the look of being absorbed in conversation. [5]
I say, averages of masses we have, but our tables of maxima we owe to the sporting men more than to the philosophers. [6]
It pushes ahead of its masses of boulders which are packed together, and they stretch across the gorge, right in front of it, like a long grave or a long, sharp roof. [5]
Here were ranks of guards in shining armor and with polished halberds; two sides of the hall were like flower-gardens for variety of color and the magnificence of the costumes; light streamed upon these masses of color from two hundred and fifty flambeaux. [5]
There lay masses of freestone in wild confusion, dust in heaps that took away my breath, and three months since I was sent over there, because above a hundred workmen engaged in stone-polishing under the burning sun had been beaten to death. [10]
I have often noticed on other high mountains how the clouds, forming like genii released from the earth, mount into the upper air, and in masses of torn fragments of mist hurry across the sky as to a rendezvous of witches. [4]
For is it not true, gentlemen, that the great masses of England are against the measures you impose upon us? [9]
Clean masses are not made by individuals standing back till the rest become clean. [5]
Deep silence, yet no peace reigned above them: the high wind now piled the dark clouds into shapeless masses, anon severed that grey veil and drove the torn fragments far asunder. [10]
The obelisk has no joints for the destructive agencies of nature to attack; the pyramid has no masses hanging in unstable equilibrium, and threatening to fall by their own weight in the course of a thousand or two years. [6]
It is so much simpler to consign a soul to perdition, or say masses, for money, to save it, than to take the blame on ourselves for letting it grow up in neglect and run to ruin for want of humanizing influences! [6]
There was the mountain, the pastures on the lower slopes all red, too, and higher up the dark masses of bristling spruce and pine and hemlock mottled with white where the snow-covered rocks showed through. [9]
There would be more profit, more silver nails for the church door, and more masses for his soul. [11]
These masses took me for General Grant, and broke into volcanic explosions and cheers; but it was a good place to see the procession, and I stayed. [5]
With these enthusiastic masses, to whom bold advance would secure the highest good, and timid hesitation could bring nothing save death and ruin, they had expected to rush over the Etham line as if it were a pile of faggots. [10]
The splendidly mounted masses of Moslem soldiers swept round the north end of Genessaret, burning and destroying as they came, and pitched their camp in front of the opposing lines. [5]
These great fluttering masses of leaves, stems, boughs, trunks, are not the real trees. [6]
Some little worm-shaped masses of clear jelly containing specks are fastened to the stick: eggs of a small snail-like shell-fish. [6]
The writer would mass the first three figures in the following way, and they would speak the truth Total--19 But the reader masses them thus--and then they tell a lie--559. [5]
Morning-glories nodded over lodge walls where the ivy was turning crimson, and the little gardens were masses of colours--French colours like that in the beds of the Tuileries, brick-red geraniums and dahlias, yellow marigolds and purple asters. [9]
The thick waving locks curled in dishevelled masses around his handsome head, as leaning far back in his chair with unfastened collar, he mingled clever sallies and brilliant similes with the quiet conversation of the others. [10]
Down below, the little town could be seen with its white, red-roofed houses, its cathedral, and its bridge, on both sides of which streamed jostling masses of Russian troops. [2]
The city was literally crowded with peasants and country people; the churches were full all the morning with devout masses, which poured into the waiting beer-houses afterward with equal zeal. [4]
Above a long line of ordinary looking clouds, float great white masses, formed of the sulphurous vapor. [4]
Beyond, in hazy light, over the lucid green of the lake, are mountains whose masses of rock seem soft and sculptured. [4]
Come, we will light candles for Jean, and comb his hair back sweet, and masses shall be said, and--" Again the woman interrupted, quieting him. [11]
The steep pathway led past masses of red granite, intersected by veins of greenish diorite, until he reached a level plateau high above the oasis, where, beside a clear spring, green bushes and delicate mountain flowers adorned the barren wilderness. [10]
To study the laws of history we must completely change the subject of our observation, must leave aside kings, ministers, and generals, and study the common, infinitesimally small elements by which the masses are moved. [2]
Lincoln himself, not knowing how strongly the masses were attached to him, was haunted by dark forebodings of defeat. [7]
When men were killed or wounded, when rows of stretchers went past, when some troops retreated, and when great masses of the enemy came into view through the smoke, no one paid any attention to these things. [2]
Wherever you go, in town or country, you find those snowy houses, and always with masses of bright-colored flowers about them, but with no vines climbing their walls; vines cannot take hold of the smooth, hard whitewash. [5]
These mansions stand in the center of large grounds, and rise, garlanded with roses, out of the midst of swelling masses of shining green foliage and many- colored blossoms. [5]
To be buried in such ground was regarded by the ancient Pisans as being more potent for salvation than many masses purchased of the church and the vowing of many candles to the Virgin. [5]
This is because, in great convulsions of nature, at three different times, masses of the earth --whole ranges of mountains, probably--have flown off into space, thus lessening the diameter of the earth, and changing the exact locality of its centre by a point or two. [5]
He went always in flowing masses of white, from the top of his big turban down to his bare feet. [5]
Thence we gazed in admiration at the ever-deepening glow of the sky, toward which great tongues of flame kept streaming up, while across the dusk shot formless masses like radiant spark-showering birds. [10]
To my lover, if to any man, Heaven's gates might open; yet had he perished without shrift or sacrament, and I could never bear to be absent when masses were said for his soul's redemption. [10]
We all know how it reads: "Some said it began at daylight, others that it set in after sunrise; but all agree that by eight o'clock Friday morning it was snowing in heavy masses that darkened the air. [4]
We lost an hour and a half by it and missed one of the most picturesque and gigantic and history-sodden masses of castellated medieval ruin that Europe can show. [5]
He left all his money with me: some to pay for Masses for his father's soul, some to buy things for--for our home; and the rest to keep till he came back. [11]
Lassiter dismounted, led his burro, called the dogs close, and proceeded at snail pace through dark masses of rock and dense thickets under the left wall. [13]
It seemed to him that this fiery and furious new fashion of hurling masses of men against impregnable walls of stone, in defiance of the established laws and usages of war, was-- But he got no further. [5]
He thought of her now as one for whom the candles had been lighted and masses had been said. [11]
By this time Hendon and the King were hopelessly separated from each other and lost in the rush and turmoil of the roaring masses of humanity. [5]
Averages of masses have been studied more than averages of maxima and minima. [6]

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