The surface of the country extending on both sides from the summit of the precipices, consisted of abrupt conic piles, narrow ridges, and shapeless fragments of naked rocks, more impassable than the valley below.
The vast ruin itself was now a shapeless mass, being utterly broken and defaced.
Bearing it down, the huge elephant actually pinned the animal to the ground, where it held it impaled and writhing with agony, then deliberately kneeling on the bleeding carcass literally crushed it into a shapeless mass.
Isabel de Maxara turned--the dead animal with its gory tusks, and the shapeless mass which had been a horse, met her gaze.
They looked like shapeless bundles, and he did not know what they were.
He could barely see a dark, shapeless outline within the dimness of his hut, but he was sure it was the figure of the slouching warrior who had bumped against him.
The impact of their horny foreheads is sufficient to reduce a man's hand to a shapeless pulp, should it find its way between the combatants' skulls.
In a moment all that remained of Tûan Bângau was a shapeless heap of useless flesh, lying in the shallow water, with the eddies playing around and in and out of the brilliant silk garments, which had made him so brave a sight when alive.
The colour was dying out of the leaves and grasses of the jungle, and all things were assuming a single sombre shade of black, the trees and underwood becoming merged into one monstrous shapeless mass, bulking big in the gathering darkness.
They brought the little one to me in the shaded veranda where I sat at breakfast with Guido--a tiny, almost shapeless bundle, wrapped in soft cashmere and old lace.
A shapeless something, preceded by a breath, cold as from a newly dug grave.
At length a shapeless form evolved itself from the crimson mist, approached the altar and cast something upon it.
The moon shone faintly in the grey heavens and a vaporous mist was sinking from shapeless clouds that hovered over the course of the Tiber.
In the intermittent flashes of lightning Basil saw the shapeless form cowering before him in the dusk of the gallery, barring the way.
When he came into the library at breakfast-time on the second day, his clothes wereshapeless and dusty, his face unshaven and grey with fatigue.
In the gathering dusk by the door, standing out against the orange glow of the door-curtain, I saw Beresford himself, leaning with one hand on a stick and grasping a shapeless soft hat with the other.
One of the men-at-arms seized his opportunity, and floundering in on the knight's blind side, smashed his gauntleted left hand into a shapeless mass by a blow from his maul.
How strangely have the swift hours flown As o'er the shapeless pile I poured the full strength of my soul, Lost to all else the while!
And her fear of him became pervading, nameless and shapeless too.
As Arnold returned the greeting of the President, all the other members of the Circle rose from their seats and took off their masks and the black shapeless cloaks which had so far completely covered them from head to foot.
The smoke drifted slowly away, and disclosed a heap of shapeless ruins.
When the thick, shapeless lips parted, they did so in a hideous grin, which made visible long, sharp white teeth, more like those of a wolf than those of a human being.
He and Ivan rose as the party entered, greeted Soudeikin and saluted the officer, hardly glancing at the two pale, haggard women in their rough grey shapeless gowns and hoods as they stood beside the men to whom they were chained.
But if exposed to the storms by the decay of the projecting roofs, or by leaks in the main roof, they will soon crumble, or sink into shapeless heaps of mud.
As in the other missions I have passed through, the Indian quarters are crumbling into shapeless heaps of mud.
The fences were all hidden from view, and a cart which had been left standing in the corner of the yard, was so entirely covered, that nothing remained but a white and shapeless mound to mark the place where it lay buried.
He looked out the window, and perceived that the air was full of driving snow, while upon the ground nothing was to be seen but vast and shapeless masses of white.
She, too, was now staring out of the window, and the long cloak hiding her seemed so shapeless that he concluded her figure must be bad.
The tracings below are as shapeless as the moon setting in a fog.
The pale stare of the heights of ice at that red and shapeless disc was shocking.
A sense of some shapeless presence for ever at her side haunted her by day and night.
He rose unrefreshed, feverish, forgetful of Côtenoir and Madelon Frehlter, as if that place and that person had never emerged from the shapeless substances of chaos.
It constituted a single room wherein stood a deal table laden with black potteries and shapeless fragments giving out an earthy smell.
The sacrilegious profaner flung himself into the sea, and fell on the rocks a shapeless mass.
Over these open squares progressed tiny, two legged figures, for the most part following gigantic shapeless animals like figures out of a dream.
Brand brought down his bar, with failing force but still deadly effect, on the loathsome face of the nearest Rogan, grunting with satisfaction as he saw it crumple into a shapeless mass.
His last recollection had been of the Rogan leader pointing his shock-tube full at him, his shapeless countenance working with murderous fury.
Straight be thy course; nor tempt the maze that leads Where fell Remorse his shapeless strength conceals: And oft Ambition's dizzy cliff he treads, And slumbers oft in Pleasure's flowery vales.
For now the storm howls mournful through the brake, And the dead foliage flies in many a shapeless flake.
