"The professors at the universities, taken en bloc, were one of the most violent elements in the nation."

It is useless to blink the fact that there is now a distrust of parliamentary and representative government which is almost universal and this distrust, which is becoming widespread, reaches from the Bolshevism of Russia on the one hand, through many intermediate social and intellectual stages, to the conservative elements in England and the United States, and the fast-strengthening royalist "bloc" in France.

wholly, altogether; totally &c (completely) 52; entirely, all, all in all, as a whole, wholesale, in a body, collectively, all put together; in the aggregate, in the lump, in the mass, in the gross, in the main, in the long run; en masse, as a body, on the whole, bodily^, en bloc, in extenso [Lat.], throughout, every inch; substantially.

Six months ago, almost simultaneously, both father and son resigned their various positions en bloc.

The removal en bloc of this village from the mouth of the Hudson river to its present site should finally convince the sceptics of the magnitude of America's war effort.

Afterwards we went en bloc to the library, and the Garnons began to knit again.

[Sidenote: Octavia's Philosophy] Octavia said to me, as we went upstairs before lunch, that they were a set of cats and harpies, and she hated them all, only unfortunately the othersthe nice good onestaken en bloc made things so dull, it was better to put up with this set.

On this line, in time of peace, the bloc trains made the journey from Antwerp to Brussels in less than an hour.

I had mentioned to Rajan earlier in Goa how the entire well-knit editorial team at WCT had quit en bloc in the face of a stubborn management vis-a-vis the workers' strike.

Le granit remplaça la tente aux murs de toiles, On lia chaque bloc avec des noeuds de fer, Et la ville semblait une ville d'enfer; L'ombre des tours faisait la nuit dans les campagnes; Ils donnèrent aux murs l'épaisseur des montagnes; Sur la porte on grava: `Défense à Dieu d'entrer.

The whole of the country appeared to be granitic; the eminence on which we stood bore that character, and some parts, near the beach, were thrown into massive bloc

Next provide that all laws shall be printed and published by a State publisher and the authenticity of all revisions be duly guaranteed by their being submitted to the legislature and re-enacted en bloc, as is our practice with revisions in Massachusetts and some as other States.

After the Cuban Revolution in 1959, hopes ran high for the establishment of a bloc of Latin American States, led by the elected president of Brazil, Joao Goulart, that might act as a bulwark against further "yankee aggression" in Latin America.

Of necessity it became a part of the socialist bloc, took over the property of Americans and other foreign investors, planned its economy and announced socialist goals, thus making the island of Cuba the only outpost of socialist construction in the Americas.

Its outcome was a competitive life and death struggle for wealth and power, with the nation or a bloc of nations as the units of competition.

The largest single element in the World Peace Council was the Socialist bloc, headed by the Soviet Union.

They are as pieces of Mosaic work, from which you cannot strike the smallest block without making a hole in the picture.

Her lower rigging is harpened-in, like the waist of Nell Dale after she has had a fresh pull upon her stay-lanyards, and there isn't a block, among them all, that seems bigger in its place than do the eyes of the girl in her own good-looking countenance.

That bit of a set that you see to her fore-brace-block, was given by the hand of one Richard Fid; and the heart on her main-stay was turned-in by Guinea, here; and, considering he is a nigger, I call it ship-shape.

The colored Baptist minister had been something of a pet among the whites, and had obtained subscriptions from some benevolent citizens to secure the freedom of a handsome daughter of his who was exposed to sale on an auction block, where her beauty inspired competition.

Who, given a Fate to shape, would sell the block.

When I was real little they drove the hands to the block to be sold out along the road.

She was put on a block and sold.

Light colored folks sold for more money on the block.

Every year, they would, they put you up on the auction block and buy and sell.

"At that time, there were about four houses to the block.

It took up a whole half block.

They called that putting him on the block.

No more block-making for photographs and illustrations; these were optically processed directly to printing plates.

Now I am finishing this, and if nobody hinders, am going to mail it, and then go after a block of ice-cream for that sick girl (isn't it nice, we can get it now done up in little boxes, just about as much as an invalid can eat at one time).

The maids had flatly refused to sleep in the servants' wing, fully a block away, so they were given the next best suite of rooms on the floor, quite cutting off every chance the Brownes may have had for choice of apartments.

This is the first step in Christianity, to lay down our own honors, to trample upon our own respects, to submit our necks to the block, as it were, and whatever God commands, to be content that His good pleasure should take place with us.

It was known as the Block-House.

They sat in a hammock together on the rear balcony of the Block-House.

There was nothing in the Block-House ever to bring him back.

In all the months that followed meeting David Cairns in Alphonso, the Block-House incident was too close and horrible for wordsthough Bedient spoke of Adelaide and the great wind and a hundred other matters.

And the hours did not bring to his mind the woman of the Block-House, nor anyone of those flaming desert-women who love so fiercely and so fruitlessly; whose relations with men do not weave, but only bind the selvage of the human fabric.... * *

But above the roar of the cannon came the sharper sound of the piping shot, the crashing of riven planks, and the occasional heavy thud as spar or block came hurtling on to the deck.

This petty nation is a stumbling-block One way or other, it must be put down.

"Well, in that case, and all jokes aside, I'd a heap rather have the running uh the Double-Crank than be President and have all the newspapers hollering how 'President Billy Boyle got up at eight this morning and had ham-and-eggs for his breakfast, and then walked around the block with the Queen uh England hanging onto his left arm,' or anything like that

" "Meaning how?" "You see that block of stone just this side of him with the square face towards us?