The flowers are enveloped at the base in a dense mass of white wool, which hides the tube, its spines only showing through; petals narrow, 1 in.
This sturdy species is a native of Mexico, and succeeds well if planted on a little rockery or raised mound in a warm house, where, properly treated, it branches freely, and forms a dense mass of circular joints.
Tubercles generally hairy, with bunches of short spines; the hairs long and white, especially about the apex of the stem, where they form a dense mass.
Mists were floating about, and below our feet was collected a dense mass, which obscured the view beyond.
Manco sat down, and took my head in his lap; when after a time I began to recover, and I saw that he was anxiously looking at a dense massof clouds gathering above us.
He was seated under the canopy on a cushioned throne, richly ornamented with gold; and on either side of him were ranged a dense mass of his chiefs and councillors, all dressed in garments similar to those worn by their ancestors.
While forcing our way through the dense mass, I momentarily expected to hear the rush of the rogue charging down upon us, and I was glad to find myself at length safe in the position we had steered for.
In about a minute, a dense mass of elephants had collected round the two leaders, who were all gazing at us; and thinking this a favourable moment, I gave the word, and we pushed towards them through the high grass.
All the streets which led thither were, during the last three days before his death, filled with a dense mass of men, and no carriage was permitted to drive through the neighborhood, lest it should disturb Mirabeau.
By five o'clock nearly two-thirds of the Old Bailey were filled with a dense mass of people.
They form patches of variable thickness, resting on white chalk, and are covered by a dense mass of stratified flint gravel.
Beneath the productive coal-measures of that country occurs a dense mass of red shales and sandstones, which correspond nearly in position to the millstone grit and Mountain Limestone of the south-east of England.
Their bark was surrounded by a dense mass of air-roots, which often constituted a great addition to the original stem, so as to double or quadruple its diameter.
It grows to the height of two to three inches, when it ceases to lengthen and produces a dense mass of filaments, forming a head or spherical tuft one inch or more in diameter.
The frond is a dense mass of rigid filaments branching many times in a forking manner and at broad angles.
They are like a dense mass of little tubes arranged along a central tube.
The third or lowest division south of the Grampians consists of grey paving- stone and roofing-slate, with associated red and grey shales; these strata underlie a dense mass of conglomerate.
In maturity a dense mass of tawny wool appears around the head of the plant.
Horizonthalonius looks quite like a Turk's head when in flower, with the pinkish purple tassel at the tip of his head in a dense mass of long, tangled, cream-white wool.
Along this stem run thirty to forty inch-high glossy green ribs with wavy crests, and a dense mass of long tan woolly areolas.
In maturity he grows around his head a dense mass of tawny wool, sometimes longer on one side suggesting a hat cocked to left or right, which gives the tall plant a most grotesque and rakish appearance.
Then he lay down under a dense mass of bramble and creeper, and waited for the enemy to appear.
Then, placing one hand lightly upon the gate-post, he vaulted over the wicket and disappeared behind a dense mass of hedge which hid the dusty road from view.
A moment later the rear end had risen into the air, and as Clive and the others watched, first Rawlings, then Trendall were tossed out into a dense mass of bushes lining the path.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "dense mass" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
