His limbs gave signs of future strength and massiveness.

There is at least no difficulty in understanding why he should have been, as it were, concussed by Byron's greater massiveness and energy into a senseeasy to an impassioned devoteeof inferiority.

There is a cimmerian massiveness about it; and on a dull day it looks quite bewildering.

The tall spire is of such admirable proportion that it does not seem gigantic; and, indeed, the effect of the whole edifice is of beauty rather than weight and massiveness.

The massiveness, the strangeness, the variety, the very length of the young and still growing shoots was a wonder.

Next to its stupid massiveness what most impressed us this day was its utter uselessness as a protection.

SHOULDERSWell laid back and as free from massiveness as possible, though there is a decided tendency in this variety to such a fault.

But soon London's massiveness, I might say its very ugliness, began to impress me.

His poems are like his countenance, coarse and ungoverned, yet with an intensity of eye, a rugged massiveness of feature, which would be grand but for the seeming deficiency of love and of humourlove's twin and inseparable brother.

Founded in superabundant massiveness, and built in prodigality of strength, the tower seems to defy the elements and to outlive tradition.

Some idea of the massiveness of the building may be formed from the fact that, measuring 111 feet by 169 feet, and 59 of height, the weight of material employed is estimated at 76,594-1/2 tons.

The adjoining lodges are in exceedingly good taste; and the plantations laid out by Mr. Hornor, are equally pleasing, whilst their verdure relieves the massiveness of the building; and in the engraving, the artist has caught a glimpse of the lattice-work which encloses the gardens and conservatories attached to the splendid suite of rooms.

The just medium between mediaeval massiveness and classic simplicity was attained in countless buildings beautiful and various beyond description.

He lacked some sense of symmetry and sought to achieve massiveness by crowding figures in a given space.

But the massiveness of the Cathedral has withstood German shrapnel.

The architecture of Egypt, of which the principal forms are pyramids, sphinxes, obelisks, and temples, is characterized by massiveness of material, grandeur of proportion, and simplicity of partsa style well suited to its flat, sandy soil, though it would look heavy and out of place in a country where nature had herself supplied the elements of grandeur and massiveness in the form of lofty mountains or mighty forests.

The architecture of Egypt, of which the principal forms are pyramids, sphinxes, obelisks, and temples, is characterized by massiveness of material, grandeur of proportion, and simplicity of partsa style well suited to its flat, sandy soil, though it would look heavy and out of place in a country where nature had herself supplied the elements of grandeur and massiveness in the form of lofty mountains or mighty forests.

Her features were very plain and large, too large for anything like beauty, but strongly impressive by their very massiveness.

" One of her intimate friends says that "in every line of her face there was powder, and about her jaw and mouth a prodigious massiveness, which might well have inspired awe had it not been tempered by the most gracious smile which ever lighted up human features, and was ever ready to convert what otherwise might have been terror into fascination!"

The great single-storeyed house they lived in, Egyptian in its massiveness, half built of monstrous blocks of chalk and half excavated from the living rock of the hill, had a front a full hundred feet in height, and beyond, the chimneys and wheels, the cranes and covers of their work sheds rose marvellously against the sky.

Horse-racing was most popular in the Roman circus, whose ruins still show its massiveness and great size.

Now, any one standing at the foot of the Wetterhorn may admire their stupendous massiveness and steepness; but, to feel their influence enter in the very marrow of one's bones, it is necessary to stand at the summit, and to fancy the one little slide down the short ice-slope, to be followed apparently by a bound into clear air and a fall down to the houses, from heights where only the eagle ventures to soar.

Creeping about amongst the roots of the hills, you half miss the hills themselves; you quite fail to understand the massiveness of the mountain chains, and, therefore, the wonderful energy of the forces that have heaved the surface of the world into these distorted shapes.

"Every one who knew Clough even slightly," says one of his oldest friends, "received the strongest impression of the unusual breadth and massiveness of his mind.

Despite its apparent massiveness, Roman civilization was not a monolith.