How To Use Masses In A Sentence

Instead of asking the fortunate few, why doesn't Ted asked the gifted masses of state employees to do a little giveback? We're! Number! 5! (Jack Bog's Blog)
The black and white images suggested a lunar surface with bright elevated land masses, grooved by sloping drainage channels and seemingly surrounded by dark, still pools of oily liquid.
It is patent that dusk found them weary and worn, plodding and wading silently "homewards," shovel on shoulder, across four or five kilos of desolate mud; falling and tripping over stagnant bodies, masses of tangled wire, bricks and jagged wood-work everywhere impeding progress. Norman Ten Hundred A Record of the 1st (Service) Bn. Royal Guernsey Light Infantry
He has bags of skill and masses of experience, which is very important.
This role of film as an instance of mass media is opposed to that of Adorno, who could only conceptualise the mass media as a means of stupefying the masses in a capitalist society.

[116] A chaplaincy is a pious foundation made by any religious person, and elected into a benefice by the ecclesiastical ordinary, with the annexed obligation of saying a certain number of masses, or with the obligation of other analogous spiritual duties. The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 28 of 55 1637-38 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing t
The masses have been ignored and excluded from public life. The Tribes Triumphant
All day long, she had been dealing with the clones, the carbon copy popular masses.
No matter how big the lie; repeat it often enough and the masses will regard it as the truth. John F. Kennedy
A triple-beam balance gets its name because it has three beams that allow you to move known masses along the beam.
Cliche is symptomatic of an entropic democracy where meaningless statements are repeated unconsciously by the masses.
Beyond, the Pacific, dim and vast, was raising on its sky-line tumbled cloud-masses that swept landward, giving warning of the first blustering breath of winter. Chapter 21
The gulf between the ruling elite and the masses became obscene.
Masses are deposited in tidal channels or shallow pools that retain water at low tide, and are secured in place by a long sand-mucus tether buried firmly in the substrate.
A left nephrectomy was performed with the clinical diagnosis of a primary renal tumor due to the absence of any other masses in the extension study.
With the rise of private Masses, chapels began to bulge out from the laterals of the church and altars began to be recessed against the walls.
The only positive aspect that has emerged from the meeting is the fact that more objective members have started questioning the sudden conversion of Zuma into a friend of the workers and the masses.
He despised Hitler and Nazism as an emanation of ‘mass man’ and he believed the defeat of the Nazis would also bring an end to the power of the masses too.
Masses of pink light up shady places where the false dragonhead grows, and the jewel weeds are thickly hung with pendant blossoms of orange and pale yellow. Some Summer Days in Iowa
They all are fans of the hybridized glads, confused by the pretty pictures shown in catalogs and on bag tags of masses of gaudy colorful clown like flowers. Monday Report « Fairegarden
It is not designed as a playground for the rich, but as a museum for the masses.
The masses have boundless creative power.
Researchers have hope for tiny parasitic wasps from Asia, which scientists are studying to see if they can be hungrily effective if introduced in the U.S. The wasps lay their eggs within the stink bugs' own egg masses. Out of Odor: Offensive-Smelling Bugs Put U.S. Farmers on the Defensive
True, we are expected to moonwalk across the vast waters dividing technology from the masses and tiptoe back on egocentric eggshells, circumventing treacherous misunderstandings and political back-stabbing.
These structural changes were aggravated by the expulsion of large peasant masses, which increased poverty and unemployment in big cities.
According to a recently opened exhibition at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art, "The Model as Muse: Embodying Fashion," the muse lives on as the fashion model who inspires masses of women to dress in ways that capture the spirit of the age. Where Have All the Muses Gone?
Like a magician waving his magic wand, McGrath took on the guise of Merlin as he wove his magic, enrapturing his team-mates, opponents and adoring masses.
And you can't rise up every time someone does something stupid and pass a law for the masses to stop the stupidity.
Sword play, or fencing, was once the sport of aristocrats, inaccessible to the masses, mainly because they could not afford a sword.
But the muscles follow immediately in their development and rapidly gain volume and tonicity, filling out the arms, legs, back and shoulders with large masses of firm muscular tissue. The Biology, Physiology and Sociology of Reproduction Also Sexual Hygiene with Special Reference to the Male
Here's a moneysaving fuchsia offer that will give masses of colour. The Sun
Personalized Web-based dashboards let a leader get a snapshot of internal and external information rather than having to sift through masses of material.
Traditional red colouring includes kermes and cochineal, both of which are pigments made by crushing masses of tiny insects.
There was a large interior patio, with fountain, trees and flowers; a large garden adjoined this filled with orange trees, banana plants and palms, with great masses of bougainvillea growing everywhere. Did you know? Cuautla, Mexico, has the world's oldest railway station building.
We found some, but not the great swathes that we had hoped for, although we were rewarded by plenty of patches of bluebells, drifts of wood anemones, a glade with masses of milkmaids and lots of primroses, cowslips and violas and bugle.
It is a lively performer, the handling is good with masses of front end grip and the ride is impressive when unladen.
All men with mediastinal lung masses require a careful testicular examination.
Marcasite, when viewed in hand specimen, tends to form crudely banded masses or massive aggregates.
The English cottage has a rheumatic floor of beaten earth or tile; its rooms are few and small, and very dark; the water-supply is scanty and most inconvenient; its chimney smokes; mice and rats find secure refuge in the thatch; the masses of clinging vines make it damp and earwiggy; but what a lovely bit it is in the landscape! Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 12, No. 32, November, 1873
With spills and mishandling, masses of these tiny beads end up in the sea. Times, Sunday Times
Never stand aloof from the masses.
At the hour of death the Holy Masses you have heard devoutly will be your greatest consolation.
Sam, a self-confessed tinhorn, “expected to find masses of silver lying all about the ground and glittering in the sun on the mountain summits.” LIGHTING OUT FOR THE TERRITORY
Unfortunately, his vendetta against us will only serve to ruin football for the masses. The Sun
A discrepancy between size and dates because of polyhydramnios in fetuses with giant neck masses is a common indication for ultrasonography, leading to prenatal diagnosis. Giant Neck Masses (GNM), Cervical Teratoma
A computed tomography of the chest, abdomen, and pelvis did not show any tumor masses or lymphadenopathy.
We should never isolate ourselves from the masses.
The difficulties of our road now increased, "if _road_ that might be called, which road was none," but black loose ashes, and masses of scoria and lava heaped in ridges, or broken into hollows in a manner not to be described. The Diary of an Ennuyée
Fascism attempts to organize the newly created proletarian masses without affecting the property structure which the masses strive to eliminate.
All three agreed that it is difficult to lead the masses anywhere - unless they are predisposed to head in that direction anyways.
Of the lumpen masses, 1.5 million died in concentration camps and 1.3 million in the war against the outside world.
The site offers the viewer masses of information on the Westport of today but it also deals with queries visitors have about any aspect of life in the area in the past.
But behind the latest official displays of concern lie the same indifference for the plight of the Asian masses.
Climate change doubt – seen by Tea Party activists as a litmus test of conservative credentials – is not, as it turns out, energising the Republican masses. Changing climate of Republican opinion doesn't agree with Tea Party
Organisationally, we have not made maximum use of the opportunities presented by democracy, peace and stability to do consistent work among the sector that were alienated from the movement, such as amakhosi, the rural masses and Indian communities of Chatsworth and Phoenix. AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS
Shabba Shabba hey: too big for the reggae market, but can he take ragga to the masses?
If m is sufficiently small we can ignore the mutual attraction of the two masses.
With post-war prosperity, the baby boom, and increased college attendance, the masses started coming, whether the museums sought them out or not.
An individual is only a tiny grain in the vast sea;it is the masses of people that are the boundless ocean.
Much less attention was paid, for example, to his polychoral works (including masses, psalms, antiphons, and sequences), some of which stand apart from the better-known pieces through such aspects as their greater rhythmic animation.
Power has been, at best, exercised by a class against the masses.
The other was the ability of Louis-Napoleon to make use of his legal position and his popularity with the masses.
Feeling you are different from the masses is the thing you most have in common with the masses.
There was a time when rye was more abundant than wheat and rye bread was the bread of the masses.
(No close encounters though) We are in space already and the shuttle is a cover up for the masses. SciFi, Fantasy & Horror Collectibles - Part 6212
Girls with ovarian tumors may have abdominal pain and masses that can be felt in the abdomen.
This is the variety with cut leaves and cut petals which gives weather resistance and masses of flowers. The Sun
They here inspire Hickox and his team to performances just as electrifying as those they have given of the great series of late Haydn masses.
Communal forces thrive on the crass ignorance of the masses concerning the essentials of their faith.
One of its latest initiatives to take theatre close to the masses is opening up rehearsals to the public.
In a fission bomb, the fuel must be kept in separate subcritical masses, which will not support fission, to prevent premature detonation.
On the south side of the manor house, he planted a large alpine meadow with masses of scillas, daffodils, anemomes and fritillarias.
Where Glastonbury can at times challenge the listener with its daytime itinerary of acts, it traditionally fills the headline slots with acts who deliver music for the masses.
Impressive blades and masses of lustrous micaceous hematite occur in localized quartz veins, and reniform goethite is found in the walls.
But common nitriles, such as hydrogen cyanide have masses more similar to nitrogen or methane, making them harder to pick out of the INMS results with only one night's study.
Are there masses of bludgers stealing the sweat from the brows of hard-working New Zealanders?
No longer relegated to the garish masses, the saturated pink shades known as fuchsia and magenta are suddenly haute. Gioia Diliberto: Big Shoes To Fill
Masses of people chanted prayers and made offerings to prepare for the first bath today.
Slides containing F 2 worms were screened for the presence of worms with diakinesis nuclei exhibiting more than six chromatin masses (indicating failure in bivalent formation).
When well advanced, the tubercular or nodular masses give rise to great deformity; the face, a favorite locality, becomes more or less leonine in appearance (_leontiasis_). Essentials of Diseases of the Skin Including the Syphilodermata Arranged in the Form of Questions and Answers Prepared Especially for Students of Medicine
Treat it the same way as the lavatera and it will produce masses of flowers and attract hordes of butterflies. Times, Sunday Times
There is no stadium, no grandstand, no masses of rabid ultramarathon fans.
Female, as a social vulnerable masses is the protected object on which law lays particular emphasis on.
It possesses masses of import machining centre , turnery centre, Nc hobbing machine, gear shaper , gear grinder , Vacuum ion nitriding technology and advanced assembly flow line.
Have we really moved since the 1840s, when gentrification was seen as the only way to educate the masses?
The movement of these air masses creates low-pressure systems that bring intense rain in the summer.
Then we'd be able to hold big gymnastics festivals where masses of gymnasts and acrobats would perform.
Far from dismissing mainstream studio pictures as lifeless products designed to narcotize the masses, he insisted that these pictures are suggestive of ‘what the people miss in their own lives.’
The discussion centres round the problems the broad masses of the people are concerned about most.
Changes in the lithosphere created major land masses and extensive shallow seas. Geologic time
Giant cells (myeloplaxes, osteoclasts), large, multinucleated, protoplasmic masses, are also to be found in both sorts of adult marrow, but more particularly in red marrow. II. Osteology. 2. Bone
These can be either digitate forms, where the mollusks lived between small stromatolite fingers, or larger, domal stromatolite masses, which created areas where mollusks clustered.
LAGOS - Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State and Action Congress, AC, Lagos chapter have described Senator Bola Tinubu, the immediate past governor of the state, as a great leader, thorough democrat and a die-hard progressive for Nigerian masses Vanguard
The masses want an eye for an eye, the Law of Moses, implemented post-haste.
For his grand home-coming, the characteristic hawkish frown and razor sharp intellect were cast aside to reveal the softer side of the man who brought history to the masses.
A hypothetical supercontinent that included all the landmasses of the earth before the Triassic Period. When continental drift began, Pangaea broke up into Laurasia and Gondwanaland.
Reminding me for all the world of wooden-faced commissars delivering set speeches to "the masses," who from time to time were expected to break out in "prolonged, stormy applause," city officials tried to ensure from the start that no real dialogue would take place. Archive 2009-10-01
At any time, since the momenta of the two masses are opposite and equal in magnitude, the total momentum of the ‘device’ is zero.
They were wild raiders, on occasion crossing the Yalu in great masses and over-running northern Cho-Sen like locusts. Chapter 15
Churches that have not been abandoned entirely are used for occult rites, animal sacrifices, and Black Masses.
The winter honeysuckle has a fabulous scent produced by masses of small white tubular flowers, while the wintersweet smells spicier. Times, Sunday Times
Television augmented and soon overtook the cinema as the masses' most popular form of entertainment.
The majority of Obrecht's masses are constructed round either plainchant melodies or secular songs.
Nor do we view the tiny flame of our own kindling (guarded in lasting purity as its light ever is) with greater awe than the celestial fires though they are often shrouded in darkness; nor do we deem it a greater marvel than the craters of Etna, whose eruptions throw up stones from its depths and great masses of rock, and at times pour forth rivers of that pure and unmixed subterranean fire. On the Sublime
The more altered dykes of the Black Coast have groundmasses of clinopyroxene, plagioclase and rare biotite.
To would-be revolutionaries it was becoming abundantly clear that their central problem was lack of contact with the masses.
By the masses of the common people, he does not mean the Russian nation only, but all the toilers and producers of the earth, without regard to nationality; while by the faith which he seeks among those toilers, he does not mean any fixed religious belief, but faith in the reasonableness and advantageousness of life, and of everything which exists, placing this faith in dependence upon brisk, healthy toil. A Survey of Russian Literature, with Selections
No matter how silly the questions, the poor victim must remain charming and keep repeating titillating soundbites, without ever actually being injudicious or displeasing the capricious movie-going masses.
A pale blue-green mineral tentatively identified as rosasite occurs with the cerussite as botryoidal and stalactitic masses.
Crystals and fine-grained masses of vivianite are present.
WASHINGTON When Pope Benedict XVI arrives for a six-day U.S. visit Tuesday, his every public move — from "Popemobile" motorcades to stadium Masses — will be choreographed according to an elaborate security plan that began taking shape when the trip was announced in September. Pope visit balances access, security
Maybe we could even rush out a quickie biography, explaining to the masses the meaning of Mr. Greenspan's life and work.
This has made the need for computer literacy among the masses indispensable.
When blood is shed they rapidly disintegrate and form granular masses, setting free prothrombin and the substance called by Howell thromboplastin. V. Angiology. 2. The Blood
The relationship between the constituents and their elected representatives has deformed into the masses and their dutifully appointed leaders.
Total digestive tract mass was the summed masses of the upper digestive tract, gizzard, small intestine, ceca, and large intestine.
Mollusca, rotifers, polyzoa, and such infusoria as are not included in types (1) and (2) belong to the massive type, in which the body and its parts form rounded masses. Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology
I eat masses of those chewy sweets and I love cheese and onion crisps.
This consultant could provide advice, assistance and help decipher the masses of legalese and hogwash that most laws are wrapped up in.
There's a reason for this: EPs and singles tend to serve as stopgaps in the rock world, small offerings to keep the masses entertained and hungry between albums.
These cellular masses, designated as the ductless glands or glands of internal secretion, have during development lost their original connection with the epithelium of the free surface.
I was a target for masses of charities because of the publicity surrounding my single, and I think I may have been over-generous.
Various mineral localities occur throughout the county, of which some of the most important occur on the shore at Portsoy, as for example the gabbro masses in Portsoy Bay with enstatite, hypersthene and labradorite, the graphic granite with microcline, muscovite and tourmaline at East Head, the chiastolite-schist west of the marble quarry, the mottled serpentine with strings of chrysotile. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy"
They are twisted masses of tiny filaments or fibers inside nerve cells.
A thyroglossal duct cyst is the most common congenital anomaly of the thyroid gland and midline masses in childhood (70% abnormality in childhood, 7% in adult). BioMed Central - Latest articles
Those distortions guide the moving masses along straight-line geodesics, which look like the curved trajectories that physicists call orbits.
Is it any wonder that we now have to lock up churches after morning Masses, even in the quiet rural countryside.
These were endowments to pay for masses to be sung (Latin cantare, ‘to sing’), usually near a tomb or effigy, for the repose of one or more souls in purgatory.
More commonly, anhedral masses are found interleaved with giant biotite crystals.
The Soviet masses were in the process of acceding to a cultural awareness that had been denied to his father.
Our masses are ignorant of their religion and easily indulge in customs borrowed from polytheists.
That we are not able at present to skiagraph the soft parts of the body, does not imply that we shall not be able to do it hereafter; and should this be possible, especially with our increasing ability to penetrate thick masses of tissue, it is evident, without entering into details, that the use of the X rays may be of immense importance in obstetrics. McClure's Magazine, Vol. 6, No. 6, May, 1896
The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labor. War is a way of shattering to pieces, or pouring into the stratosphere, or sinking in the depths of the sea, materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comfortable, and hence, in the long run, too intelligent. George Orwell
Next to these, the majors took place, many of which were mere succedanea, made by the application of an occasional rose to the tail of a lank bob; and in the lower form appeared masses of hair, which would admit of no description. The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle
The principal gray masses of the tegmentum are the red nucleus and the interpeduncular ganglion; of its fibers the chief longitudinal tracts are the superior peduncle, the medial longitudinal fasciculus, and the lemniscus. IX. Neurology. 4b. The Mid-brain or Mesencephalon
Within the political class, it is standard fare to bemoan lack of engagement among the unenlightened masses.
The water overflowed in the hand, going straight out to either side as the streams of water continuously added their masses together.
The heights of Pindus towered above us; the castle of Yanina rose white and angular from the blue waters of the lake, and the immense masses of black vegetation which, viewed in the distance, gave the idea of lichens clinging to the rocks, were in reality gigantic fir-trees and myrtles. The Count of Monte Cristo
Starch consists of long chains of sugar molecules crammed into masses called granules. On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen
On the following day of St. John, three more masses were held, to remember his role as the precurser, his role as the baptizer, and the last to honor his sanctity. June festivals at Lake Chapala
Is it not chiefly because they upheld the principle of serving the people, established exemplary relations with the people through sacrificing their own interests, crated inside the armed forces a comradeship that brought the initiative of junior officers and the rank and file into full play, relied on the masses, analyzed the experience of each battle, and from battle to battle made continuous progress, both strategic and tactical?
The song that seduced the masses all those months ago is still a zinger.
When dried and untwisted the creases gave the effect of masses of small pleats.
Female argonauts tuck masses of tiny eggs into spare space in the structure, Vecchione notes, much as bottom-dwelling octopuses protect their eggs in rock crevices.
For miles and miles, above and around, great billowy masses, tossed and twisted into an infinity of fantastic shapes, arrest and weary the eye, lava in all its forms, from a compact phonolite, to the lightest pumice stone, the mere froth of the volcano, exceeding in wildness and confusion the most extravagant nightmare ever inflicted on man. The Hawaiian Archipelago
In the 1950s Encyclopedia Brittanca, the vast central plateau of Chiapas was cited as among the most fertile and finest land masses in all of Mexico hindered by the almost complete lack of transportation and its remoteness from the rest of the country. Fifty Years in Southern Mexico
In developing and democratizing countries, the masses are less ignorant, quiescent, or afraid than they once were.
The summit of the small island is composed of a highly crystalline basalt; lower down I found a hard, stratified slatey sandstone, while on the beach are huge blocks of lava, and scattered masses of white coralline limestone. The Malay Archipelago
The larger masses of molten glass remained near the effusive center; these were slower to solidify and commonly became strange agglomerations where bombarded by the rain of smaller ejecta.
The lowest range above Djidda is calcareous; but its rocks soon change into gneiss, and a species of granite, with schorl in the place of feldspath, accompanied by predominant masses of quartz, and some mica. Travels in Arabia
Rogue installation artists refashion landmasses into wind chimes by secretly boring tunnels to channel air currents. The Times Literary Supplement
Once, their core skill was a speciality; now it is being mastered by the masses. Times, Sunday Times
I needn't remind you that this is the very same society that shackles them with its false smile and pristine lies and acts as a drug for the braindead masses.
In a nutshell, when the masses justly resist, it is an honor and an obligation to stand in support of such resistance.
Also if there is any cloistered person who has begun his week of being hebdomadary, and falls into such sickness that he cannot celebrate the same, the cantor is to say or celebrate three masses. Alps and Sanctuaries of Piedmont and the Canton Ticino
Galactic nebulas are masses of diffuse material within our galaxy.
What about the downtrodden masses back in coach? Times, Sunday Times
In fact they were defending the old Spain of privilege and poverty, threatened by the masses entering politics after the 1931 expulsion of the monarchy.
Real objects are not point masses but occupy a volume of space and have an infinite variety of shapes.
Other minerals associated with the orpiment crystals are white to colorless barite crystals, lemon-yellow crystalline masses of sulfur, and minor realgar.
Blessed with masses of ripe, velvety, cedary fruit and that classic tannic finish, this is bang on the money. Times, Sunday Times
Pink spikes and white and vivid blue spikes; masses of brown and orange cups, like low-growing tulips; ranks of beautiful vetches and purple lupines; escholtzias, like immense sweeps of golden sunlight; wild sweet peas; trumpet-shaped blossoms whose name no one knew, -- all flung broadcast over the face of the land, and in such stintless quantities that it dazzled the mind to think of as it did the eyes to behold them. Clover
The first force is the inclination of the masses to convert into reality the political rights conceded to them on paper.
The splitting of the rostellum, curiously enough, never happens without insect aid; but if a bristle or needle be passed over it ever so lightly, a stream of sticky, milky fluid exudes, hardens, and the boat-shaped disk, with pollen masses attached, may be withdrawn on the bristle just as the bee removes them with her tongue. Wild Flowers Worth Knowing
Lastly, part of identifying a set of best practices is about documenting those examples of recent activism in which the digitally connected few galvanized and mobilized the less connected masses. Susannah Vila: The Wrong Debate: Why We Should Stop Debating Technology's Relevance and Start Figuring Out How to Effectively Leverage It
The scapula, covered by thick carneous masses, does not lie in the living body directly upon the osseous-thorax, neither does the clavicle. Surgical Anatomy
While waiting in interminable lines, the masses oohed. Tom Doctoroff: Shanghai's World Expo: The Curtain Falls
At present we have four Masses, in the parish divided equally with two on Saturday and two on Sunday.
An individual is only a tiny grain in the vast sea;it is the masses of people that are the boundless ocean.
Some of the windows incorporate mediaeval work, but the interior is unattractive and not helped by the masses of dreary pews.
The discussion centres round the problems the broad masses of the people are concerned about most.
Of those patients, 214 were diagnosed with noncancerous masses, and 30 had cancerous neoplasms.
Among his compositions are numerous masses for four, five, and six voices, settings of the "Lamentations" for four and six voices, a large number of motets for from three to six voices, and settings of the The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 16 [Supplement]
The State government had allotted one "rath" for each of the 223 talukas to cover the rural masses. The Hindu - Front Page
The effective masses of the electrons are therefore increased - by a few percent in simple metals and by factors of up to 1000 in ‘heavy fermion ‘systems - but the quasiparticles still carry the same charge and spin as free electrons.’
The socialist government feared a loss of government to the C.N.T. unless they held out a revolutionary future to the social masses.
Catholicism, however gripped the masses by virtue of its incense, its ritual, all quite arbitrary, compulsion without purpose.
The body protoplasm is generally crescentic; there are two chromatin masses, the larger one, the nucleus, on the side of the convexity, the other narrower, more deeply stained situated usually on the edge of the concavity, the centrosome. Alphonse Laveran - Nobel Lecture
Breast: Skin retractions, masses ( mobile, fixed ), erythema, axillary or supraclavicular node enlargement.
The leadership of the Muslims was crumbling, the masses disillusioned and disunited.
They occur in great numbers in a tissue called, botryoidal tissue (Figure XIV.), which occurs especially in masses and patches along the course of the alimentary canal, in its walls. Text Book of Biology, Part 1: Vertebrata
[41] We who, in many departments, ways, make _the building up of the masses, _ by _building up grand individuals_, our shibboleth: and in brief that is the marrow of this book. Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy
The "federalists" - seen by many historians as the only party to defend the classes against the masses explicitly were rapidly reduced to an Westminster Wisdom
Masses of vines spiraled upward against the vertical timbers and covered the thatched roof.
Is it not chiefly because they upheld the principle of serving the people, established exemplary relations with the people through sacrificing their own interests, crated inside the armed forces a comradeship that brought the initiative of junior officers and the rank and file into full play, relied on the masses, analyzed the experience of each battle, and from battle to battle made continuous progress, both strategic and tactical?
The brain of a fish is very small, compared with the spinal cord into which it is continued, and with the nerves which come off from it: of the segments of which it is composed — the olfactory lobes, the cerebral hemisphere, and the succeeding divisions — no one predominates so much over the rest as to obscure or cover them; and the so-called optic lobes are, frequently, the largest masses of all. Essays
His image as a defender of the national interest made him popular among the masses.
In Mary's day the language of monsters and fiends was used by the ruling class to describe the revolutionary masses of Paris and rebelling industrial workers.
The lesions may be gummatous, ulcerative, or inflammatory, or there may be compressive granulomatous masses. Bronchoscopy and Esophagoscopy A Manual of Peroral Endoscopy and Laryngeal Surgery
Huxley first called attention to certain noteworthy resemblances between the Neotropical and the Australian regions of Sclater, and held that a primary division of the world was into Arctogaea, comprising the great land masses of the Northern Hemisphere with a part of their extension across the equator, and Thomas Henry Huxley A Sketch Of His Life And Work
It has masses of room for five adults, a cavernous load capacity, and a refreshingly airy, well-equipped interior.
Its structure is that of an ordinary cell-nucleus, viz., it consists of a reticulum or karyomitome, the meshes of which are filled with karyoplasm, while connected with, or imbedded in, the reticulum are a number of chromatin masses or chromosomes, which may present the appearance of a skein or may assume the form of rods or loops. I. Embryology. 2. The Ovum
The white clay is formed where some granite masses have been changed chemically.
Blaming the masses for electing ‘rogues, scoundrels and even worse’ to power, it went on to express no confidence in any of the political parties.
At flowering, the fungus grows through the floral tissue and forms masses of spores in place of healthy seed.
Coal forests of giant lycopods, calamites, pteridophytes and ferns cover the tropical landmasses.
These masses have not vanished without a trace. A Short Guide to Writing About History
Always involved in the preparation of Confirmation Classes she also tutored and ensured young readers were available for the masses.
Nascar hasn't been marketed to the masses for some time now (think of skyboxes, corporate suites, etc.).
Her sled-dogs clustered about her in hirsute masses, and the leader, Wolf Fang, laid his long snout softly in her lap. A DAUGHTER OF THE AURORA

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