Citations:masses


 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * We, however, lay to until the morning, fearing to encounter in the dark those large loose masses which float about after the breaking up of the ice.


 * 1843 — Charles Dickens. A Christmas Carol.
 * And now, without a word of warning from the Ghost, they stood upon a bleak and desert moor, where monstrous masses of rude stone were cast about, as though it were the burial-place of giants; and water spread itself wheresoever it listed, or would have done so, but for the frost that held it prisoner; and nothing grew but moss and furze, and coarse rank grass.
 * Secrets that few would like to scrutinise were bred and hidden in mountains of unseemly rags, masses of corrupted fat, and sepulchres of bones.