The adjutant made the prayer, but I did not take note of it, being too engrossed with the massed picture of misery before me.
Sometimes I become afraid of my own generalizations upon the massed misery of this Ghetto life, and feel that my impressions are exaggerated, that I am too close to the picture and lack perspective.
Over her black dress, the blue lining brilliant over the dark, with her hair massed against a dead black hat, Esme was remarkable.
Boats massed outside as people peered through the shrubs.
At five o'clock a large body of peasantry was massed for an attack on the bridge at Viennes; and its defenders, seeing the storm that was preparing, retired into the town.
Porter's corps was massed in rear of Sumner, and Hooker's had been moved off to the right, around Keedysville.
The picture of the hero, strong, with well-massed surfaces, is related to both.
Everything Punic or Italian in the middle distance or massedbackground speaks of the very genius of the people concerned and actively generates their kind of lightning.
Then comes the vineyard, the crowd sentiment of a merry grape-harvest, then the massed emotion of many people embarking on an Atlantic liner telling good-by to their kindred on the piers, then the drama of arrival in New York.
Here and there on the mountain side and along the highroad he noticed the massed pink and white clusters of the sheep laurel.
She climbed the rough stone wall; the sheep were massed in one corner, heads to the wall, tails to the bare centre of the fold; they kept crowding closer and more close.
He massedthe Artillery in this direction, and ordered a constant mortar fire to be kept up during the night on the Begum palace and the barracks.
By and by a film of dark smoke floated up as through a crevice in the massed tree-tops, lengthened, and spread itself in the sunlight.
Stifled by the overwhelming temperature, they had massed themselves together, heads turned inwards, seeking shelter one from the other.
At the same hour General Longstreet's troops were still massed near the Chambersburg pike, three miles on a straight line from the point of attack.
Gettysburg, arriving about the same hour that Longstreet's troops were being massed near Lee's head-quarters, and were thereupon posted upon the extreme Federal right.
The man who, under the weight of official evidence massed in this little story, can still raise his voice to assert that "Longstreet was slow and balky" at Gettysburg, takes direct issue with the official reports of Robert E.
It is true this was done upon Longstreet's strenuous representations that twenty thousand Federals were massed behind the Round Top to swoop down on the Confederate flank if Hood and McLaws were withdrawn.
Next was a declination through which Deep Run Creek passed on to the Rappahannock, and next was Hamilton's Crossing, upon which Stonewall Jackson massed thirty thousand men.
After their arrival upon Seminary Ridge, the infantry of Hood and McLaws was massed in a field within musket shot of General Lee's head-quarters, and there rested until the troops took arms for the march to the point of attack.
The enemy occupied the high ground in front of us, being massed within a curve of about two miles, nearly concentric with the curve described by our forces.
The Federals again massed and advanced, and pressed through a gap in Jackson's line.
Rave and fume as he might, and hammer the mahogany desk, the rolling thunders of a worldmassed against him cracked even his stiff will.
A vision of his country, no longer divided in petty schisms, engrossed in material pursuits, but massed in one by the force and fury of a valiant ideal, came into his mind.
Then, with wonderful dexterity, the newcomer jerked aside the insects which were massed upon him, raised the lower edge of the net, and shot with a swift, sinuous movement inside.
Hurriedly massed in the town from Aldershot by way of Guildford, they had, owing to the short-sighted policy of the War Office, arrived without a sufficient supply of either transport or ammunition.
Then, after some tentative movements, designed to feel the strength of our forces massed at this important point, they apparently determined to carry it at any cost.
By the time they arrived there, however, both towns had been recaptured by the British, who were then being severely harassed by the enemy massed along the south side of our defensive line.
The Canadians had laid mines in front of their trenches, which were exploded just as the head of the Russian assaulting parties were massed above them, and large numbers of the Tsar's infantry were blown into atoms.
Of the vast bodies of troops massed over hill and dale every regiment became engaged.
Great black clouds massed in vast battalions overhead, and in less than half an hour the storm burst.
Great clouds had massed on the mountains, and the wind was whipping down the valley, ruffling the surface of the lake.
Great, threatening clouds were massed together far up in the hills, and the wind began to draw down the ravine.
The pier was massed with people who had come to bid their friends good-by.
The red sunset flamed up behind the sad little town and its gray old houses and spires massed on the hill, and the black river creeping by.
The possibilities of panic in a massed multitude of thousands are best understood by those who have had most to do with crowds.
Many a man of the street, who might be unmoved by many arguments, however powerful, cannot escape the impression of the might of the massed multitudes of men who march through the streets, thousands strong.
Snowden's plan to take Homestead by surprise, the Second and Third Brigades, instead of being massed as announced in the newspapers, at Brinton, a station on the Pennsylvania R.
Magnificently massed Indeed, those mammoth-stones, piled by the Protoplast Temple-wise in my dream!
So the row that was raised over the stone from Grave Creek--but time and cumulativeness, and the very factor we make so much of--or the power of massed data.
In this instance we hear nothing of fraudulency--time, cumulativeness, the power of massed data.
The enemy, at the time being massed in great strength in the tunnel-gorge, moved a large force under cover of the ground and the thick bushes, and suddenly appeared on the right rear of this command.
General Slocum brought forward the two divisions of the Twentieth Corps, hastily disposed of them for defense, and General Kilpatrick massed his cavalry on the left.
He was an impressive figure massed in blackness against the moonlight, with his arms outspread.
We passed over black patches where the ash flowers were beaten down, and under great massedclouds of green sycamore.
The fight soon became general; Beauregard hurled his massed columns with great impetuosity against our attenuated lines, which, though yielding to the pressure, did not break.
Daring the night of August 30th the march of a rebel column was heard on our left and centre, and in the morning two corps were found massed on our right.
