3314 examples of masses in sentences

In masses broke into the light.

Such a gallant line, issuing from the midst of the smoke, and rapidly separating itself from the confused and broken multitude, startled the enemy's masses, which were increasing and pressing onwards as to an assured victory; they wavered, hesitated, and then vomiting forth a storm of fire, hastily endeavoured to enlarge their front, while a fearful discharge of grape from all their artillery whistled through the British ranks.

But it ought to be remembered that a Florentine workshop at that period contained masses of accumulated designs, all of which were more or less the common property of the painting firm.

Its composition by masses being quite apparent, we can easily construct the incomplete figure of S. John in the background.

This enabled an unconscientious builder to furnish bulky architectural masses, which presented a specious aspect of solidity and looked more costly than they really were.

The toiling masses left behind will have before them the constant example of numbers of their race living in comfort and increasing prosperity under their own government.

[Illustration] (3) Sori in roundish or elongated masses.

Although the bracken is coarse and common, it makes a desirable background for rockeries, or other fern masses.

Pellàea Sporangia borne on the upper part of the free veins inside the margins, in dot-like masses, but may run together, as in the continuous fruiting line of the bracken.

On this matter, likewise, he declared himself with cautious modesty; and by rational presentations, which he clothed under a variety of forms, he sought to produce some measure of equilibrium in the excited masses.

Since, however, the tumult of anarchy became more and more furious, and since a voluntary union of the masses appeared inconceivable, he was the first once more to counsel absolutism and to designate the man to work the miracle of reëstablishment.

His trouble seems to have been "an abnormal formation of irregular masses of bone in the brain."

He has proven that the great masses of people are hungry and thirsty for knowledge.

As I looked it was so easy to imagine they actually moved, crept nearer, retreated a little, huddled together in masses, hostile, waiting for the great wind that should finally start them a-running.

The King proceeded to draw up the army in the following order: Three oblong columns or masses of infantry, armed with lances, arranged on the same front, with intervals betwixt them formed his first line.

The crescent moon have you seen, As it shimmers on apricots gleaming, Through velvety masses of green. Have you seen, in a June-tide nooning, A languorous full-blown rose In the arms of the lilies swooning And yielding her sweets to her foes?

" It is a matter of greater speculation than we can here enter into, as to the date and founders of Abury; and their history is as dislocated as are the masses of its ruins.

At any rate, they have ceased to influence masses of people.

The towers, ramparts, and battlements that once awed the enemy, or struck terror into an oppressed people, are now mere objects of curiosity, The unlettered peasant gazes upon their ruins with idle wonder; the antiquary explores their flittering masses with admiration and delight.

The Giants appeared and vanished among these masses and in the uncertain light; great shapes they were, not disproportionate to the things amidst which they moved.

A little after daybreak, just when its inhabitants were usually enjoying the dessert of their night's sleep, hearing drowsily the rumble of the early morning carts and the bell-ringing of the first Masses, the house would reëcho to the rude banging of doors and heavy footsteps making the stairway creak.

CAREY, J. R. The revolt of the masses.

The revolt of the masses.

As a composer, he left some few songs, masses and religious fragments which are not without merit.

The "general economic situation" in America, but for immigration, would compel higher wages to be paid to the masses of the workers.

3314 examples of  masses  in sentences