The citadel was, however, demolished, and thus the town itself, and all that pertained to it, became a mass of smoking ruins.
A pastoral and roaming life continued to be the destiny of the great mass of the people.
As the work embraces a mass of facts of an absorbing and intensely interesting character, we trust that it will commend itself to an enlightened and judicious public.
And by examination, we shall find that these truths are in direct opposition to the general mass of popular superstitions.
If any could be so obstinate as not to be convinced of its divine origin by the mass of evidence with which it was accompanied, neither would they believe, though one should rise from the dead.
The crystal is spherical, and has been turned from a large mass of pure rock crystal.
Now, apply this principle of sound reasoning to the wholemass of pretended signs.
A thorough comprehension of this truth in science has banished a mass of superstition.
At the same time I admit that non-co-operation practised by the mass of people is attended with grave risks.
His conception of non-co-operation did not involve rapine, plunder, incendiarism and all the concomitants of mass madness.
Without any impertinence I may say that I understand themass mind better than any one amongst the educated Indians.
I hope then that whatever I say this evening to this vast mass of people, will bear fruit in that same sacrifice for which the life of Lokamanya Tilak Maharaj stands.
We must not forget that, since it was on a property basis, it was under the control of the patricians, for the great mass of plebeians were poor.
During his absence from the capital there had been some minor disturbances; but the mass of the citizens were firmly attached to him.
The great mass of the people were peasants, small land-owners, of frugal habits and moral qualities.
In the midst of the mass of letters which the post brought me every morning, and through which, without the aid of an officer on the staff, I could never have got through, there came one whose singular address struck me.
The day when a High Mass of mine is performed in honor of the solemnities for Y.
I write merely to say that I agree to give you the Mass and pianoforte arrangement of it for 1000 florins C.
So far as I can remember, it was not mentioned in the application to Prince Esterhazy that the Mass was to be delivered in manuscript only.
If the Mass is ever published, I will send you a copy free of all charge.
If the Mass is engraved hereafter, I hope to dedicate it to Y.
I am unable to send you to-day the application for a subscription to my Mass to H.
No copies are to be sold except those subscribed for, so that the mass will be, as it were, in manuscript; but there must be a fair number of subscribers, if any profit is to accrue to the author.
The description given by my dear friend Maria Weber[2] of your generous and noble disposition encourages me to apply to you on another subject, namely, about a Grand Mass which I am now issuing in manuscript.
The case with regard to the Mass stands thus: I finished one long ago, and another is in progress.
Footnote 1: Another allusion to the Grand Mass in D, which seemed likely never to be completed.
Whatever she was, she was an independent atom in the mass of the world's breeding.
Yet no one ever questioned his bona fides, and if he had attended massat Manitou in the morning, joined a heathen dance in Tekewani's Reserve in the afternoon, and listened to the oleaginous Rev.
Nay more, I am not certain that any theologian’s description, so far as it is of this nature, has gone deep enough into the frightful mass of human depravity.
If so, it only proves that no state is so reprobate, as not to be consistent with a great mass of excellence.
Whence else the mass of goodness which proves that humanity, with all its evils and its errors, is a most merciful nature.
It is a mass of dumb instincts and allegiances, the love of a certain quality of life, to be maintained manfully.
In less than a minute I emerged, partly from my own exertions and partly because the velocity of the falling mass had subsided.
Each unhewn massof living stone Was clad in horrors not its own, And at its base the trembling nations bow'd.
The cannon were old ship guns, and had been heavily charged with grape, and the destruction wrought upon the crowded massof negroes was so great that they stopped suddenly.
It was not until they had worked round nearly to the entrance that opposition was met with; then they came upon a spot where a mass of rock cropped up among the trees, and as they approached this a sharp fire of musketry broke out.
However, we who do know, and are responsible for the mass who trust in us, must consider what is the best thing to do.
Two weeks before that event, the engineers were for the moment baffled by a temporary obstruction--a mass of solid rock in the channel.
Imagine that seething, fighting, dying mass of humanity, with all the horrible concomitants of deafening noise and blinding smoke and flashing fire!
In a guard-ship of the period described, a most heterogeneous mass of humanity was assembled.
The natives were terror-struck, more especially if the quake happened at night, and there would burst a mass of confused sounds, "Kew ming!
Meanwhile, the shapeless iron mass Came moving o'er the wave, As gloomy as a passing hearse, As silent as the grave.
This bright appearance lasted from ten to twenty seconds, fading by degrees as the column became lower, till at length only a dull red mass was distinguishable for about a minute, after which it again vanished.
Numerous shots were aimed at it, but the balls traversed its flaccid and glutinous mass without causing it any vital injury.
Oh, if there’s no comfort from the mass there’s no comfort from anything else, and he who has the evil prayer in the Shanna Gailey breathed upon him, will have no comfort from the mass.
In the one case we get nebulous speculation and fanciful induction based upon Borrovian knowledge; in the other, a solid mass of real learning accompanied by the smallest possible amount of speculation or fanciful induction.
So I went about bidding people give me alms for the glory of God, and threatening those who gave me nothing that the mass should never comfort them.
Navarre had been compelled to attend Mass in public and to ask absolution from the Archbishop of Bourges, {114} who received him into the fold of the Catholic, Apostolic and Roman Church before the coronation.
He attended mass in the Cathedral which was to be the scene of the assassination, since Lorenzo and his brother were certain to attend it.
His aspect was gloomy as he received this symbol of successful ambition, for the mass of the people was silent and he was uneasy at the usurpation of a privilege which was not his birthright.
Nuremburg, Frankfort, Hamburg, and other imperial free cities in Germany openly embraced the reformed religion, abolishing the mass and other "superstitious rites of popery.
Henry understood that if he were to be spared it was only at the price of his conversion, and with the alternatives of death or the Mass before him, it is little wonder that he yielded, at least in appearance, to the latter.
He had his will, being a man of iron, and heldMass in the Protestant stronghold.
The weather was extremely cold, and the sun had set behind the Pont Rouge, in a heavy mass of blood-red clouds.
At this moment I feel capable of swallowing whole that great mass of scenery and decorations in the chariot yonder.
Pierre broke open the chest with an axe, and the cover sprang back, disclosing to view a mass of gold coins--all ancient, and many of them foreign.
One morning he sauntered listlessly down into the garden, which was wilder and more overgrown than ever--a tangled mass of weeds and brambles.
But the massof these sonnets and odes and madrigals is extraordinarily insipid and cold, the similes are forced and grotesque, and everywhere pedantry takes the place of passion.
He had been born youngest son in the fourth marriage of a redoubtable Huguenot of Xaintogne, and he came to Paris towards the end of the reign of Henry IV, with a mass of strange MSS.
Clemenceau did not pause, meanwhile, from his journalistic labours, and he continued to offer to the public of Paris successive selections from the mass of his productions.
They are selected on a peculiar system from the mass of the journalist's miscellaneous output.
He recalled how the sun, in a transparency of pale gold, sank behind the blue mass of Ithaca, tinged with rose-colour the crags of the Echinades, and bathed the mountains and the sea in the delicate enchantment of sunset.
It is put in water and flowers about Christmas time, and is taken by them to Mass on Christmas-day.
Mannhardt, who has diligently collected an enormous massof evidence on the subject, states that traditions concerning the wild people of the woods are current in all the more wooded countries of Europe.
What the strong and saintly receive with vivid impression and profound assurance, the mass who feel their influence will accept a good deal on their authority.
But the great mass of the Greek-Roman world still believed, as the entire Jewish people believed, in the habitual intervention of some divine personality.
Gorgeous buildings, splendid ceremonies, august authorities, and along with it a massof greed, formality, worldliness.
The Catholic turned with fresh ardor to massand miracle and holy church.
The greatness of early New England is partly measured by the fact that there were comparatively no dregs, no mass of ignorance and vice.
It may be said that in a more ignorant and credulous age the mass of men did believe unquestioningly in the teachings of the church.
On the eastern side, the soil appeared a dark mass of imbedded fused rock, stretching in broken undulations to the distant highlands.
The danger to be apprehended from such an event, was rendered certain in the morning, when we perceived that the whole circle of vision was one black mass of these animals.
The blood which he had dipped from the cavity of the buffalo was then stirred in till the mass became of the consistency of rice soup.
A bright moon cast its mellow glow over the mass of stone outlined against the western sky.
As Beverly sank back from the crash, she saw him throw his arms aloft as though inviting the elements to mass themselves and their energy upon his head.
General Marlanx issued orders for the Edelweiss army corps to mass beyond the southern gates of the city the next morning.
Simultaneously, there was a groan and the noise of a limp body slipping to the ground, and, Baldos, victor at last, turned in fear and trembling to find Beverly standing unhurt staring at the black mass at her feet.
Beyond, through the palace gate, a mass undulated, the body elongated, expanding as it moved.
But now there was nothing, at most a triangular mass speeding westwards, of which only the edges moved, and which he knew to be a flight of cranes.
After breakfast, "Cobbler" Horn invited his secretary to attack the accumulated mass of letters which waited for despatch.
Beyond the mass of the Semiramis rose the great grey-white dome of St. Paul's.
Look around us," said Warner, pausing, "look among this toiling and busy and sordid mass of beings who claim with us the fellowship of clay.
And yet," said Clarence, "that seems a melancholy truth for the mass of the people, who have no time for the researches of wisdom.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "mass" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
