“He opened the suitcase and tipped its contents out on the floor of his bedroom, staring for a long time at a mass of books, documents, and fat envelopes.”
“By the long-continued application of such efforts on the part of a number of men of vigorous minds and bodies, a mass of knowledge has been collected.”
“His thoughts were interrupted by a mass of soldiers and at least two carriages driving past.”
(physics) The quantity of matter which a body contains, irrespective of its bulk or volume. It is one of four fundamental properties of matter. It is measured in kilograms in the SI system of measurement.
“He opened the suitcase and tipped its contents out on the floor of his bedroom, staring for a long time at a mass of books, documents, and fat envelopes.”
“By the long-continued application of such efforts on the part of a number of men of vigorous minds and bodies, a mass of knowledge has been collected.”
“His thoughts were interrupted by a mass of soldiers and at least two carriages driving past.”
“It's without a doubt the frequency and the massivity of youth mobilisations.”
“Then the anguish increased to unendurable massivity and nightmare dimensions, making her scream and vomit.”
“The mirrors employ the language of the rococo in the form of rocaille, floral and shell-like forms, and c-scrolls, yet retain a baroque sense of massivity and balance.”
“The higher pine forests are matted beneath with masses of low huckleberry shrubs.”
“The social contract between the state and the public was a means of maintaining state and regime stability by appearing to appease the masses with attractive welfare policies.”
“That celestial object, a blue supergiant called P Cygni, lies some 6,000 light-years from Earth in the constellation Cygnus and is about 30 times as massives as the sun.”