In this definition we have eliminated, as will be seen, a great mass of popular assumptions.
Out of the confused and bitter strife of churches and parties, while the outcome was still uncertain, issued a great mass of controversial writing which does not belong to literature.
Or, on the other hand, the combination may be mostly performed all at once at a comparatively late period by a single great poet, who with conscious art weaves together a great mass of separate materials into the nearly finished epic.
He saw a stone fence running down the center of a field, and then he saw beyond it a great mass of Northern infantry advancing with bayonets shining and colors waving.
Then the horsemen appeared in a great mass on the Southern left, and had not time and chance intervened at the last moment Stonewall Jackson might have passed into obscurity.
Then he plainly discerned the guns and a great mass of infantry, with the colors waving above them in the gentle breeze.
Over and beyond the valley was a great mass of mountains, ridge on ridge and peak on peak, covered with black forest, and cut by defiles and ravines so narrow that it was always dark within them.
A great mass of testimony establishing this position is at hand and might be presented, but narrow space, little time, the patience of readers, and the importance of speedy publication, counsel brevity.
A great mass of testimony establishing this position might be presented, but narrow space, and the importance of speedy publication, counsel brevity.
A few yards down the slope of the dome another similar white cone was to be seen, with a great mass of granular ash-pellets and tufa, such as are commonly found near geysers or thermal springs.
Slightly beyond, preceded by a great massof rock, was another island 200 m.
This company is part of a great mass of creditors to whom the United States contracted debts during the late war.
There is a great mass of good in it, in a very desirable form; but there is also, to me, a bitter pill or two.
This country advances with a steady pace towards the establishment of a constitution, whereby the people will resume the great mass of those powers, so fatally lodged in the hands of the King.
From this outline review we come back to the situation in the United States, where a great mass of negroes--possibly over nine millions of many shades of colors--is for the first time brought into contact with Christian civilization.
They discovered the domestic note in its quiet character, and said that the architect had avoided the look of an "institution" in such a great mass.
A great mass of it has been accumulated in the progress of mankind, and, fortunately for different wants and temperaments, it is as varied as the various minds that produced it.
And again, when we pass from Homer to Hesiod, we find a great mass of religious fable, either added by the later poet, or grown up in the interval between the two.
Beyond the gateway stands a great mass of buildings with two large round towers just in front; to the right, across a sloping lawn, appears the more modern and inhabited portion of the castle.
When we have progressed beyond the market-place, we come out upon an elevated grassy space upon the top of a great mass of rock whose perpendicular sides drop down to a bend of the Nidd.
I saw stretching from hill to hill, a great massof timber, trees, roofs and debris of every sort, rapidly advancing, wrecking and carrying everything before it.
One instance, showing how slowly the lava is to part with its heat, may be given: In the year 1828 a great mass of ice was discovered on Mt.
Either on one side or the other there is a great mass of empty phrases and false but inflated rhetoric.
The Two Men stood at the door behind a great mass of muleteers, who all craned forward to where, upon a dais at the end of the room, sat a Jewess who still continued for some five minutes this intense and terrible effort of the voice.
The King and his Court made a net and threw it into the sea, and brought out a great mass of fish.
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