"Good, amigo!but how far is it?" "Hay no mas" (There is no more,) was the consoling response.

The unit of measure, as fixed by law, is estamos aquí, (here we are,) which is a mile and a half; hay no masita (a little less than nothing) is five miles; hay no mas (there is no more) is ten miles; and muy cerca (very near) is a hard day's journey.

There is here confusion of place and confusion of time; not only is Mas a Fuera not San Ambrosio but this latter island, far from being a desert, as your correspondent has said, has been inhabited more than twenty years by a multitude of madmen, fishermen and pirates, potato-eaters and old sailors, who, when I visited them, in 1702, politely received me with gun-shots, and whose politeness I returned with cannon-shots.

A submerged mass is to'a faa ruru, and the coral on which the waves break, to'a auau.

Every moment the mass thickenedthere was a run on the bank.

Scotland has ever borne the character of a moral and religious country; and the mass of the people are a more church-going race than the masses of English population.

I am sending a late answer to your letter; a mass of business and constant illness must be my excuse.

An egg contains water within its beautiful smooth surface; and an unformed mass, by the incubation of the parent, becomes a regular animal, furnished with bones and sinews, and covered with feathers.

Nevertheless, the mass of quotations, most of them with exact references, collected by him, and printed under the word-groups which they illustrated, was a service never to be undervalued or forgotten, and his work, 'A New Dictionary of the English Language ...

As a result of natural character in many cases, and of dependence upon planters in many more, the great mass of the special justices are a disgrace to their office, and to the government which commissioned them.

now the blue line discoverstoo latethat the mass is the enemy, and half the line withers in the point-blank discharge.

The mass of the people were unaccustomed and indifferent to direct participation in the government.

A mass of ice that was about a quarter of a mile in length, and of fully half that breadth, which floated quite two hundred feet above the surface of the water, and twice that thickness beneath it, was the cause of the disturbance.

They exploded in one voice, as if the flying mass of wood were an animate object.

A mass of sea-weed, which rested on a sort of stratum of mud immediately after the eruption, had now been the favourite pasturage of the hogs for more than a twelvemonth.

Absolute life can exist only of and by itself, else were it no perfect thing; but will you say that a mass of protoplasmthat proto by the way is a begged questionexists by its own power, appears by its own will?

The result was gratifying, although our own county, Stearns, was overwhelmingly Democratic, and must remain so, since the great mass of the people were Catholics.

I have lived in a great many countries, and always think that as a people, I mean the uneducated mass, the French are the most intelligent nation in the world.

This mass of prickles is not a vegetable; he is very much alive.

On a few articles of more general and necessary use the suppression in due season will doubtless be right, but the great mass of the articles on which impost is paid are foreign luxuries, purchased by those only who are rich enough to afford themselves the use of them.

"The present superincumbent mass is about 20 feet in thickness."

It is easy by expending much money in advertising, by organizing a great choir, and employing the services of gifted and earnest men, to draw large congregations; but the great mass of those who attend these services are church members,the outside multitude is scarcely, touched by them.

The mass of those persons were Georgians, Virginians, and Kentuckians, whose comparative poverty rendered their residence in slave states unpleasant.

The great mass of the congregation were apprentices.

The mass of Carleton's little force was at St Johns under Major Preston, who had 500 men of the 7th and 26th (Royal Fusiliers and Cameronians), 80 gunners, and 120 volunteers, mostly French-Canadian gentlemen.