Massive

Examples

• I feel how vivid an impression I must have produced to have been painted in such strong, such rich, such massive colours as these. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• When all was completed the great staging was removed, and the mighty tube rested alone and secure upon its massive wedge-faced piers rising from the bedrock of the flood below. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Massive, symmetrical and harmonious, its highest point reaches 307? feet above the plaza on the east. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• It is to be almost inclosed by massive stone piers, one of which will extend into the sea over three thousand feet in a straight line. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• The massive but delicate coining presses coin from 80 to 100 pieces a minute. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• The giant rolls consist of a pair of iron cylinders of massive size and weight, with removable wearing plates having irregular surfaces formed by projecting knobs. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• From the delicate hair spring of a watch to the massive armor plate of a battleship, it finds endless applications, and is nature’s most enduring gift to man--abundant, cheap, and lasting. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• He was altogether splendid, massive, overpowering, and impracticable. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• Her features, like her frame, were strong and massive, rather than heavy. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• Concentrating my mind upon the massive lock I hurled the nine thought waves against it. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
• Cribbed and barred and moored by massive rusty chains, the prison-ship seemed in my young eyes to be ironed like the prisoners. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• Only by the use of large and strong ropes could they have moved the massive stones seen in their pyramids and temples. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Then with his lens he tested the hinges, but they were of solid iron, built firmly into the massive masonry. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• So I said boldly, as if I had originated it, and must beg to insist upon it, Massive and concrete. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• On her left were two matrons, with massive foreheads and bonnets to match, discussing Women's Rights and making tatting. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• The walls were faced with bas-reliefs representing scenes in his life done in massive silver. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• They are built into the massive wall some twenty feet above the ground. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• Their long, massive necks upreared raised their great, gaping mouths high above our heads. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• Within there was a small corridor, which ended in a very massive iron gate. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• Deep ditch, single drawbridge, massive stone walls, eight great towers, cannon, muskets, fire and smoke. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• Herbert said from behind (again poking me), Massive and concrete. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• Here is a packed and jammed city enclosed in a massive stone wall which is more than a thousand years old. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• Here the greatest difficulty confronted Clayton, for he had no means whereby to hang his massive door now that he had built it. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• Eustacia's manner was as a rule of a slumberous sort, her passions being of the massive rather than the vivacious kind. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• We arrived at a tumble-down old rookery called the Palazzo Simonetti--a massive hewn-stone affair occupied by a family of ragged Italians. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• To meet this situation, three massive reinforced concrete caissons were built on the surface. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• While the twain are faithful to their post, Mr. George strides through the streets with a massive kind of swagger and a grave-enough face. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• The terrible, massive, cold, boundless surface of the water terrified her beyond words. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• He was a large man with rounded shoulders, a massive head, and a broad, intelligent face, sloping down to a pointed beard of grizzled brown. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• We cannot be sure that any natures, however inflexible or peculiar, will resist this effect from a more massive being than their own. George Eliot. Middlemarch.

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