Their hour was come, and the triumphant shouts of the enemy were heard around their stubborn walls, which (massy as they were) dropped to the ground under the subduing power of the battering-rams of war.
Here let me sit upon this massy stone, The marble column's yet unshaken base; Here, son of Saturn!
Taking from the Spanish owner a falcon of massy gold, having a large emerald set in his breast, and chasing such other wares as he liked, the admiral allowed this ship to continue her voyage, only detaining her pilot for his own use.
This country is so rich, that one of the natives offered a crown of massy gold in exchange for six strings of glass beads; but Magellan would not allow such bargains, lest the Spaniards might appear too greedy of gold.
The same remark applies to the entrance gates, of massy iron, which have just been raised by the directions of the first consul.
She put into my hand an immense massy key to open the door of the choir.
The barrier is formed of two very large, and noble military stone lodges, having porticoes, on all sides, supported by massy doric pillars.
In the course of one of my morning rambles in Paris, I visited the ruins of the celebrated Bastille, of which prison, only the arsenal, some fragments of its massy walls, and two or three dungeons remain.
The roof is supported by two massy fluted pilastres, which in size are calculated to bear the burthen of some prodigious dome.
The massy trunk was bent to the ground, but no sooner did the hurricane pass away, than it again rose with fresh vigor and more lively vegetation.
In the massy stones of the Coliseum, many holes are discerned; and the two most probable conjectures represent the various accidents of its decay.
Happy was the favourite of Croesus, who could display chain upon chain of massy gold wreathed and intertwined from the waistband to the shoe, until he seemed almost weighed down by the burthen of his own wealth.
This "raiment" descended from father to son, as a chased goblet and a massy wrought urn does now; and was naturally and necessarily inventoried as a portion of the property.
The cavalcade, at a quick pace, soon gained the ascending and winding road that conducted them to a tall and massy gateway, the top of which was formed of one prodigious stone.
Weeds and flowers spring from its massy arches and its circling seats, and vines hang their fringes from its lofty walls.
With these words, the soldier removed the massy bars, and Helen entered.
A little onward, a thousand massy fragments, rent by former tempests from their parent cliffs, lay at the foundations of the immense acclivities which faced the cause of their present alarm-a whirlpool almost as terrific as that of Scarba.
They sunk under the painful weight of crosses and chains; and their emaciated limbs were confined by collars, bracelets, gauntlets, and greaves of massy and rigid iron.
The sideboards of massy plate, and the variegated wardrobes of silk and purple, were irregularly piled in the wagons, that always followed the march of a Gothic army.
The bust of Mithridates himself was twelve feet high, of massy gold, (Freinshem.
Thither Shelley's ashes were conveyed; and they rest beneath one of the antique weed-grown towers that recur at intervals in the circuit of the massy ancient wall of Rome.
A massy tower yet overhangs the town, A scattered group of ruined dwellings now.
The breath whose might I have invoked in song Descends on me; my spirit's bark is driven, Far from the shore, far from the trembling throng Whose sails were never to the tempest given; The massy earth and sphered skies are riven!
The stars were brilliant, yet it was too dark to see much beyond the dim forms of massy buildings, wrapped in deep shadows.
