| 单词 | massive |
| 例句 | The massive creature simply pressed and tested and forced Nailer to memorize and then to write. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z The original magnet design called for using copper for the electromagnet coils and the massive transmission bus that carried electricity to the racetracks. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Beyond that hill Lee could begin to feel the weight of the Union Army, the massive blue force pouring his way. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Five massive swimming pools—longer than fifty-meter Olympic pools, and wider—were dug so the children would have a place to cool off in the summer. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z Its massive head rose above the waves on a long white neck that gave way to smooth brown scales, ancient heavily lidded eyes, and a sharp beak that could snap a man in two. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z The leaves rustled as it slithered toward them, closing the distance as its massive gray ears flapped eerily in the wind. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z The massive publicity now gently hinted that the “big ten” would “supervise” the March on Washington’s “mood,” and its “direction.” The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z They hovered by the door, inspecting the lock, Cray-Cray jingling his massive all-campus key ring that always hung from his belt like some kind of medieval weapon. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z This is because the more massive the star is, the hotter it needs to be to balance its gravitational attraction. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Both arms were folded across his chest, and I couldn’t help but look around for his massive hammer. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z All the courtesies in the world do not cover up the one vital and massive discourtesy—that the Negro is treated not even as a second- class citizen, but as a tenth-class one. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z A servant opens the massive set of doors. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z Six weeks later, on September i, L939, Germany launched a massive invasion of Poland. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z But within a few years, there were already signs of a massive revival. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z The coral splintered, and massive sections sheared off in an avalanche of color. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z Moments later, a massive explosion rocked the embassy compound. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z It was dark out, and at first I couldn’t see anything except the massive black ocean across the street. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z Next Dr. Zinchenko studied the holographic statues projected into black crepe-lined recesses cut into the massive stone piers that supported the arched windows from which the Wonder Dome rose. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z She looked up at the Argo II. Its massive bronze hull glittered in the sunlight. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Still clutching the scythes, the massive golem came to a halt in front of Dale, looming over him. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z On top of that, the massive death toll created a political crisis. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z The shadow of the massive gate passed over them, and on the other side, Anya’s breath caught in her chest. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z Using this information, it was his task to devise a strategy for flying the bomb over enemy territory, releasing it on target, and getting away before the massive blast killed everyone in the plane. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z A plaid, overstuffed couch and matching chairs formed a semicircle facing a massive fireplace. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z A very small man wearing a black robe entered and moved swiftly toward the massive desk. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z His three massive rolling tool cabinets - Chico, Harpo and Groucho - took up most of the room. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z I wondered if her great beauty and massive fortune were enough to protect her from a lifetime of torture? The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z A touch of the poetic, better suited to the grandeur that Dawkins seeks to invoke than a colorless adjective like massive or enormous. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z We wait as the massive main gates of the west entrance are opened for us, and then pass into the city, the carriage letting us off at a central stop. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z Then he stopped and whirled round, with a lithe athletic power, and struck two massive blows, one to each side, at the guards closest to him. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z The badger bowed low in a dignified manner, gesturing with her massive blunt paw. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z This town would actually be pretty if it weren't so chaotic, with soldiers and guns and these massive crowds everywhere. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z The massive entrance was barred with iron gates, heavily padlocked. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Its brow shelf was thick and heavy, its jaw massive. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Ahead, he turned off the path and entered through the double doors of a massive building whose four corners were adorned with decorative cupolas. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z Ihe tree’s massive roots were large enough to use like a makeshift table, and some of the larger leaves served as plates. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z There was a massive stone wall with a doorway in it, and in the farther part of the garden, the trees were younger and the planting less formal. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z After a complication, Bell died at St. Luke’s Hospital from a massive heart attack. The Crossover 2014-03-18T00:00:00Z The Uzumark wasn’t a single, massive subterranean channel, but an intricate network of waterways that carved their way through the valley bedrock. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z He walked the length of the leaf to the massive central shoot of the enormous river reed. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z “The lines must be massive, and getting back might take a lot longer than going.” Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z Three times their way was blocked by iron bars, and they had to stop while Bowen Marsh drew out his keys and unlocked the massive chains that secured them. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z We venture into the palace wing on gilded walkways that feel like massive bridges. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z To reach it one had to pass through two impregnable walls, each with armed guards; and once inside, four massive gates had to be unlocked before one even reached the area where I was kept. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Three massive grief-stricken rock-giants who reminded me of us, the way Dad, Noah, and I must’ve looked standing over Mom’s grave as if we might topple in after her. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z It is a massive Georgian with tall, white pillars at the entrance. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z The sunken floor was inlaid with massive slabs of ice that had been smoothed into a seamless surface. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z Michelangelo peered down from his massive, ruddy, whiskered face onto the pale Scotsman. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z I had slight depressions at the front of my forehead and a massive crater on each side of my head, running down to my eyebrows. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z Then, slowly, a rock spire began to grow like a massive tulip bulb. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z She wore colorful, billowy clothes and served meals at a massive table in the dining room, hosting anyone who turned up, mostly people who belonged to what she called “the movement.” Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Once I received my certificate, I hurried through the parking lot to get back to work, but it took nearly an hour to find my car among the massive and indistinguishable rows of vehicles. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z Hevelius was, however, happy to use telescopes for other purposes, such as mapping the moon, and eventually built a massive 150-footer. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z The massive golem crumbled into a pile of rubble. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z It’s really a stage, and arcing above it are massive metal plates that curl in different directions, like an exploded aluminum can. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z Finally Arion zoomed between two mountains into a valley of ice and rocks, like a massive bowl of frozen milk with bits of Cocoa Puffs. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z The whole room was like one massive, scary, unreliable machine. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z He glanced over the cliff, where the turtle’s massive shell glinted just under the water. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z He was wearing half spectacles and he lowered his massive head and stared over them at her. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z Not long after Henrietta’s death, planning began for a HeLa factory—a massive operation that would grow to produce trillions of HeLa cells each week. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z He was swinging upside down off the starboard rail, using his massive strength and his flexible feet to hang on while he untangled some broken oars. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z But the trip to Schiaparelli will mean going over massive elevation changes. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z West Oakland High itself was a massive structure in the northern part of what was technically not West Oakland at all. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z It was an awesome thing to watch such a massive creature having such mighty convulsions. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z These African states have fallen prey to the British-American imperialist conspiracy to use the committee’s recommendations as a pretext for a massive arms support for their puppet and tottering neocolonialist regime in Nigeria.... Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Academic writers often neglect to do this and trowel out massive slabs of visually monotonous text. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Roz had spent the day collecting logs and branches and stacking them in a perfect, massive tower. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z The massive figure of Abraham Lincoln gazed down at her as she looked out at the expectant throng. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z “This is the most massive head fracture I’ve ever seen,” he said. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z A massive pyramid-shaped structure covering several square kilometers at its base, it towered above most of the structures adjacent to it. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z We drink pale green wine that tastes of herbs out of massive goblets that Locke finds in the back of a cabinet. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z The massive hologram on the ceiling looks just like a cloudless blue sky. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z It was jerked out of my hands as the draccus chewed the bucket a little, crushing it in its massive jaws. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z The dead become this massive roadblock standing between the Persians and the road to Sparta. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z Once again, Thomas looked in awe at the massive moving wall—it defied any sense of physics. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z Knot indicated where the massive gears, some of them with wheels more than a meter in diameter, sat in the flooring. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z My heart stops—if that’s actually possible without a massive zap of electricity. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z The next day, the massive Russian army reached Berlin’s northern suburbs. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z She sits at a massive machine that boasts three spindle wheels and two looms. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z The Murray twins lean against the massive trunk, sipping steaming cups of mulled cider. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z I circled around it until I found the entrance, a massive pair of stone doors standing wide open. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Their massive throwing arms bent back like ship masts listing in a storm. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z I am standing in someone else’s recorded Memory, inside a massive, dimly lit space. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z The massive sandstone walls of the keep loomed above them. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z One last twist of the sphere, and Leo sent a massive jolt through the system. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Then, as suddenly as it had appeared, the Spirit Bear swung its massive head around and ambled away, vanishing ghostlike into the trees. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z There were massive cracks and bulges on the north side of the mountain. I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980 2016-08-01T00:00:00Z I saw him on my way out of Patterson’s office, massive and oafish as always, but unbuttoned, loose, someone I admired because when I asked him to be there he had been. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z Did you know they make these big massive Sharpies called Super Sharpies? Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z The city ultimately spread across two square miles, an array of two- and three-story buildings in compounds behind massive walls. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Beyond that stretched a clear field, flat and then rising up to massive crumbling stone walls. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z Looking at it, you see right away that the biggest problem is the massive chunk of clay in the middle of the face that’s not supposed to be there. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z The clothes showed me what it was that this impressive, massive city lacked: elegance. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z In the corner, he realizes, sits a third person, a massive figure camped sleepily in an armchair intended for a much smaller man. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z Laura Friendly showed up with a massive bouquet of flowers and a bottle of wine. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z He passed a massive catapult, as tall as a city wall, its base sunk deep into the Wall. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z There were massive amounts of garbage all over the ground. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z There was silence, and then the applause was massive. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Occasional gusts of wind buffeted the massive sliding door. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Then I see the sculpture, a few hundred yards away from the doors we entered through yesterday, gloomy and massive and mysterious, like a living entity. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z She listens to something about a heart attack, that it had been massive, that all attempts to revive him had failed. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z I half expected to see monkeys swinging from the boughs of the massive trees. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z Another match was struck; the candle was lit again, and Gregory held it up so that its flame illuminated a massive, towering, teetering pile of spoons and kettles and soup bowls. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z Men drove swine and cattle, while others hauled massive blocks of ice for cold storage or dragged handcarts loaded with goods. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z Each house was a massive tribute to days long past. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z There were challenges ahead, but also opportunities—massive opportunities. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Everyone dismounted, patting his massive flanks and thanking him before gathering around Cymbeline. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z Every last detail is planned, and a massive crowd gathers outside the gates long before sundown. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z We crossed Jackson Park Highlands and Hyde Park, where the University of Chicago campus sat hidden behind a massive wrought-iron gate. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Percy and Jason were a little too good at cooking up massive storms. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z A stream of fans crossed the pontoon bridge at the western end of the course and began to fill the massive wooden bleachers on the far side of the water. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z He hoped someday to grow whole organs in the laboratory, filling massive vaults with lungs, livers, kidneys, and tissues he could ship through the mail for transplantation. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z I squint down at my phone at footage of massive creatures sprinting across someone’s front lawn. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z The temple, made of sandstone, was a massive pyramid-like structure in the shape of a chariot. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z The soldier shined the bluish light toward the chamber to the right, finding the massive shape of the Berg nestled there. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z What his sons and their contemporaries undertook, instead, was a massive spring clean of musical style and a project to celebrate not earnestness but wit, not inventiveness but elegance, not piety but beauty. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z The evolution of life on Earth is driven in part by the spectacular deaths of distant, massive suns. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z On the anniversary of Pearl Harbor, Auntie Braxton suffered a massive stroke and was rushed to the hospital by ferry in the middle of the night. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Fives, which many of you will know nothing about, was taken seriously at Repton and we had a dozen massive glass-roofed fives courts kept always in perfect condition. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z Inej nodded and slipped the massive jeweled choker from her sleeve. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z Fireworks explode above the bridge’s massive pylons and armed soldiers salute us on both sides as gigantic steel cables shoot to the sky. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z Something massive was staring back at them from the shadows of the trees up ahead. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z He was a massive, barrel-chested man, and his bow was clumsy. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z I start the car, and my date with massive aural disappointment comes to an end. Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z “This massive old oak tree that’s more home to you than your house but not as much as this is.” The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z They passed beneath three massive arches, down a torchlit ramp into the vaults beneath the pyramid, past cisterns, dungeons, and torture chambers where slaves had been scourged and skinned and burned with red-hot irons. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z She owns a successful business and has a massive collection of power tools. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z Glerk pressed his four arms to the ground and eased his massive bottom under the curve of his spine, letting his heavy tail curl around the whole of him like a great, glistening snail’s shell. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z Above a massive shelf of brow he was bald. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Even as she said the words, Nok looked at the massive throng of people and knew that would be impossible. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z That is a fate reserved for planets near stars more massive than the Sun. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z His arms were covered in a fine layer of soot, like he’d just died in a massive fire . . . which, of course, he had. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z Died of massive injuries while leaping like an idiot into the abyss of Chaos and splattering on the entry hall floor of Nyx’s mansion. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z It appeared to hang in space for a second, then it dropped like a massive stone. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z My head felt like a balloon that was swelling up and about to blow into another massive head fracture. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z The massive, thundering herds were pathological, something that the land had not seen before and was unlikely to see again. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z A head appeared from behind a massive flower arrangement. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z The German High Command had quickly organized a massive water evacuation. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z It was also at about this time that they were able to work out that the cycle of Yellowstone’s eruptions averaged one massive blow every 600,000 years. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z What then drove forward the evolution of the massive human brain during those 2 million years? Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z That man looked as if he could squash half a dozen fairies in one massive fist. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z Exerting the full strength of a female badger, she lifted the massive Cavern Hole dining table. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z He was stern and massive and expressionless, more like a pillar of rock than a man, but he stooped and held out his hand to shake. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z I pulled, and pulled, at the door, and shook it till, massive as it was, it rattled in its casement. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z They patiently waited for the campaign to get back to the greater good of forging practical solutions to massive problems, but that shift never took place. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Then I would activate the self-destruct sequence on my stronghold and sit in my command center while the whole place went up in a massive thermonuclear explosion. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z He stretched out his massive purple hand and might have plucked up Percy like a weed, but Bob interrupted. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z Their material cultures were simpler, too—no writing, no stone plazas, no massive temples—though Plains groups did leave behind about fifty rings of rock that are reminiscent of Stonehenge. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z They grow in number, move in massive groups, devouring everything. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z I saw a boy in a Greek tunic and sandals crouching alone in a massive stone room. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z John had finished sweeping, and he now mounted to the pulpit to dust the three thronelike chairs, purple, with white linen squares for the headpieces and for the massive arms. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z He thought about the horned toad and the massive footprint. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z He had these parents from hell who'd put him under massive pressure to get a whole raft of A grades and when the exam came, this kid just cracked and couldn't even understand the questions. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z As the baby gets more massive, your push has less and less effect. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Beyond lay a deep salt moat and a drawbridge supported by a pair of massive chains. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z He looked like a massive wolf howling at the moon. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z And there was an overbearing silence that hung over everything, a massive hole that no one wanted to acknowledge. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z About a hundred yards to port, a massive cruise ship glided past. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z My hair is white-blond, and so straight and flat, there’s no way it would ever end in a curl without massive doses of hair spray. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z The central cavity of the massive room is so stark and white, I blink hard, thinking I must be in the wrong place. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z Washington viewed the uprising as a direct threat to the authority of the federal government and called out the militia, a massive thirteen-thousand-man army, to squelch the uprising. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z The weeping willows were bare but still massive and threw up their twisted arms like women in grief. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z The seat was cold stone, polished smooth by countless bottoms; the carved heads of direwolves snarled on the ends of its massive arms. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z At the center of the table were two massive, carved oak chairs, and the King and Queen were seated there. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z He leans back in his chair, a massive beast of a man. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z He felt like the bag was a comment on his massive, incredible uselessness. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z Out across the water, on the point of shoreline near the opening of the bay, a massive white bear stood as motionless as a statue, facing him. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z Western Canada was not, because it was buried beneath two massive, conjoined ice sheets, each thousands of feet deep and two thousand miles long. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z But I was in no way prepared for the massive skyscrapers, gorgeous beachside drives, and awesome monuments I saw on our initial trip in the country. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z And the walls of the corridors were similar to those that surrounded the Glade, the ground made of the same massive stone blocks as in the courtyard. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z The green metallic vessel that felt so massive when I was on it appears little more than a toy boat now. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z That was pretty comforting, because I didn’t want to fail all of my finals after the massive makeup effort I had done before my flu episode, and Annette always got A’s in everything. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z At the time, he was working double shifts, leading a section deep inside the mine charged with cutting through a massive rock header. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z Supernova explosions of massive early stars produced successive overlapping shock waves in the adjacent gas, compressing the intergalactic medium and accelerating the generation of clusters of galaxies. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Out of the water burst a new chariot—this one pulled by massive hippocampi, who swam in air as easily as in water. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z The interior of Madoc’s house is whitewashed plaster and massive, rough-cut wooden beams. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Each fiend had big, red, unblinking eyes and a wide red mouth without lips, from which protruded massive, shiny, razor-sharp teeth. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z The spider’s silk support cables trembled like massive guitar strings and began to snap. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Harrenhal's gatehouse, itself as large as Winterfell's Great Keep, was as scarred as it was massive, its stones fissured and discolored. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z The maitre d’ was a small, elegant man who looked up toward a massive, red-faced man who stood six feet four inches tall and weighed over two hundred and twenty pounds. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z A stuffed rabbit dangled from her massive hand. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z Our neighbor’s house, the massive Tudor, is dark and quiet. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z Our school auditorium is massive, probably able to fit at least six hundred people. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z In the spring of 2010, as food shortages again became severe, the government launched a massive back-to-the-farm campaign to persuade city dwellers to move to the countryside and raise crops. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z Beilstein is the massive German compendium in 28 volumes, listing all the organic molecules known to chemists. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Jason changed the course of the wind, and Percy called up a massive wave, which lifted the ship higher than the fort’s walls and pushed it out to sea. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z She peered at the other end of the massive hall; there were a few other grates just below the ceiling, though she could see no other squinting eyes beyond their ornate metalwork. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z As they pushed on, they encountered a strange universe of unknown creatures that included a 450-pound, six-foot kangaroo, and a marsupial lion, as massive as a modern tiger, that was the continent’s largest predator. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Surely in America a whole segment of decent souls could not stand by and allow such massive crimes to be committed. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z It recognized the massive dependence of the American economy on trade with England. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z “That’s what I thought,” he said, and cut another and another, reducing the massive thing to a pile of fragments in less than a minute. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z His family watched him leave, then fanning out in well-drilled squads they set about assaulting the long-standing dust from the recesses and corners of the massive house. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z "CAPCOM, read your logs and see what the previous shift did. See if a massive course change was ordered and somehow nobody told us." The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Spire vultures are massive birds with five-inch talons and wingspans that clear twenty feet. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z Every day there were headlines announcing new acts of terror and bloodshed; every week, it seemed, there was another massive rally in Madison Square Garden. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z The massive walls had been plastered with red clay mud, but the weather had exposed the straw in the plaster; under a broken tin rain gutter, plaster was peeling away, exposing brown adobe bricks. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z Soon after, another boat appeared, this time a massive dugout canoe, a pirogue heading downstream filled with racks of drying fish, one of the rows still wet and glistening and breathing. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z Several massive, shaggy work horses stood up to their knees in muck among dense cattail stands in which hundreds of noisy redwing blackbirds cavorted. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Ten thousand men and ten thousand machines worked ceaselessly through the night under powerful arc-lights, and the massive task was completed only just in time. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Even before President Wilson mobilized United States troops, Swift had been called on for meat to feed the massive European armies that already had been battling for several years. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z After the train had roared by, the massive wheels churning, we’d run to get our newly flattened, hot and shiny piece of metal. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z He followed the fish centaur through a massive forest of kelp. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Sparks flew from the stone as the massive right wall slid to the left, groaning thunderously as it made its journey to close off the Glade from the Maze for the night. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z I passed through the crackly beads into a tiny kitchen with a stone sink and a massive oven. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z As the nineteenth century drew to a close, he saw a massive new wave of men flooding into Chicago, fleeing oppression in eastern Europe—from Poland, Czechoslovakia, Lithuania. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z A Russian prince condescended to sit in a corner for an hour and talk with a massive lady, dressed like Hamlet’s mother in black velvet with a pearl bridle under her chin. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z The remains were so badly decomposed that it was impossible to determine exactly when McCandless had died, but the coroner could find no sign of massive internal injuries or broken bones. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z There were wax candles in massive brass candelabra, burning softly under yellow silk shades; full, fragrant roses, yellow and red, abounded. The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z Most radar transmissions are for military purposes; they scan the skies in constant fear of a massive launch of missiles with nuclear warheads, an augury fifteen minutes early of the end of human civilization. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The 587th was involved in six massive air battles while they were at Krasnodar, including, on a dismal and cloudy day in early June, probably their most dramatic engagement of the entire war. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z He groaned, looking up at a massive pine tree he’d just shredded. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z His gaze shifted from the massive bulldozer to the bird burrow, then back again. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z The bridge looks massive from our landing, and the Hudson rough and wild below. Watch Us Rise 2019-02-12T00:00:00Z A collapsing star twice as massive as the Sun will become a supernova and then a neutron star. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Your mass stays the same wherever you go, but your weight varies depending on how far you are from the center of some other massive object like a planet. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z The Titan’s massive drop makes Scoob feel like his brain got left back at the top of the metal hill. Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z Sanjeev pressed the massive silver face to his ribs, careful not to let the feather hat slip, and followed her. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z That meant I was in Sunnyside Yard, the massive, sprawling labyrinth of tracks that led into different train routes and across the entire country. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z In its place there now stood a massive chair, upholstered in red and with designs carved thickly into its legs and arms. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z The tunnel led to a massive cavern that opened out into a grand library. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z It’s hard to see how the new weather patterns alone could have caused such a massive extinction. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Compared to its brethren around the world, Clovis society, with its putative focus on massive, exterminating hunts, would have been an anomaly. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z They reached another set of glass doors and went through them into a massive downpour of rain, falling from a black sky. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z Three women wheel out a thousand-layer crepe cake with massive strawberries the size of snow globes. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z At the back of the stage, a massive screen displays her round face and neatly trimmed brown hair. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z He was just massive; people bounced off him more than he tried to send them flying. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z On the second day of the massive nuking— Wednesday—the Army caravan flowed with commuter traffic to Reston and deployed behind the monkey house. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z It is more than twice as massive as all the other planets put together. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z His uncle was portly and balding, with a close-cropped yellow beard that followed the line of his massive jaw. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z The being who appeared was so massive, radiating such pure malevolence, that Percy wanted to crawl away and hide. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z At home, I was worried that my parents would notice the massive amount of work I was cranking out, wonder about it, comment on it. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z There had been a massive riot there in 1929.1 thought about my anger and frustration after I’d been slugged in A-block, my fantasy of the building and all its contents going up in flames. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Old Fred had been found dead on the train in the early hours of the morning, having suffered a massive heart attack. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z It's also possible that my story is giving her a massive headache. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z You’d have to be deep into the massive automotive clot to feel that abandoning your car was your only course of action. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z Leaning it against the wall, he lifted the massive weight of the tractor with one paw and laid it on its side before bending to examine the crumpled runner. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z There had been a massive slab of sandstone between the two mines, and my father had fought through it like he was in a war. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z The room appeared to be a reception area, with rows of straight-backed chairs facing a massive desk and some filing cabinets, all trapped inside tons of ice. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z Canopies and buffet tables dotted the massive compound, which was green and landscaped, with the promise of a swimming pool in the back. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z Mixed in with them were the paddlelike bones, massive enough to make tables or even beds. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z I had bent down, and was reaching for a copper coil, when something massive cut through the air next to me. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z The endless crash of wave on rock was the only sound that ever penetrated the massive seaward walls of Storm's End, and that but faintly. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Great big folds of flesh hung down from his massive belly and dangled in dollops over each other along his four thick legs. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z To the east the massive brick walls of Meereen shimmered through the morning heat. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Though in nature DNA chains are very long, there was no reason to put together anything massive. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z Some remain, each cleaning a massive section of floor that looks like you could safely lick its surface. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z Arion was playing a dangerous game of tag, charging around the giant while Alyconeus swiped at them with his staff, knocking over walls and cleaving massive chasms in the ice. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z I saw the gleam in Buffo’s eyes as he came clumping after her, spewing flecks of mint, his massive belly bouncing. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z She must have had her hair recently colored because it was so blue it looked like a massive hydrangea blossom. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z The massive pilferage that ensued would make me look powerless, ridiculous. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z We are caught in that undertow now with a massive wave behind us surging forward, and the image is so powerful, and my mind so weakened, I get muddled. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z The doc looked up from where she knelt beside a huge man cradling a limp, skeletal body in his massive arms. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z A purple-suited man saunters in, followed by a train of powdered and prim-looking men carrying notebooks, and a set of tailors and seamstresses who wheel in massive spinning looms. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z A trace of a sardonic smile was all the recognition I got when we passed in the courtyard outside the massive Salle Richelieu of the Sorbonne. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z The Cyclops carried a massive club over his shoulder, but Percy didn’t feel that he was an enemy. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z Depending on the wind, a faint echo of massive artillery could be heard occasionally across the mountains near Sarajevo seventy miles to the north. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Some New Guineans did become infected, but not on the massive scale that killed off most of the native peoples of Australia and the Americas. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Winky did stop crying, but when she sat up she was glaring at Hermione through her massive brown eyes, her whole face sopping wet and suddenly furious. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z I imagine him sitting at home watching the History channel or reading a massive biography in front of a crackling fireplace. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z “Not alone. He’s no match for Gaea. That would take a massive quest... an army of the best demigods.” The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z But a more massive star will spend its nuclear fuel faster, become a red giant sooner, and be first to enter the final white dwarf decline. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Ancient cities that had decayed, leaving massive sandy lumps over the flat desert. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z The bin had to be emptied, and I couldn’t operate the loader—a massive forklift with a telescopic arm and wide, black wheels that were taller than I was. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Its massive spreading branches seemed to be enfolding and embracing the tiny building, and perhaps hiding it as well from the rest of the world. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z The more massive the object that is sitting on the sheet, the more the sheet gets distorted, and the larger the dimple around that object. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Shawn designed and welded the main frame—the massive beams that formed the skeleton of the building. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z It is very tiny: just one-quarter of 1 percent as massive as Earth. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z It’s perfectly symmetrical and has four massive white pillars holding up the rounded roof of the porch. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z The day was meant to be a massive kickoff party for the campaign, one for which everyone had spent weeks preparing. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z There was nothing there now but a massive pile of twisted, flaming metal. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z Something hisses deep in the building’s belly as though a massive snake is about to strike. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z He had no idea what was wrong with the man, except that he was obviously having some kind of massive hemorrhage. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z There was something incredibly foreboding about the place—massive and silent, adorned with the empty black frames of barred or meshed windows and broken-down metal doors. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z She skirted the edge of a massive diff that overlooked a huge, black ocean. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z In retaliation, MacArthur ordered massive bombing strikes against "every installation, factory, city, and village" in North Korea. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z It was like a creature awakening from sleep, and when it moved—sinuous, liquid—and shook open its massive wings, a bone-deep terror stirred in all the warriors. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z Three thousand of the luckiest took refuge under the cover of the massive permanent grandstand, right in front of the finish line. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z The result was again the start of farming dependent on crops from elsewhere, a failure to domesticate local species, and a massive modern replacement of human population. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Once, as they drifted silently past a massive white cloud, they saw on the top of it a group of strange, tall, wispy-looking things that were about twice the height of ordinary men. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z All those recently hatched massive blue- white super-giant stars in Orion are destined in the next few million years to become supernovae, a continuing cosmic fireworks in the constellation of the hunter. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z I quickly lifted my shirt and revealed the massive gash. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z The ship rocked to port with a massive commotion, like telephone poles snapping in half. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z For a split second Frank thought he’d be crushed under the weight of the massive assault rifle, but the gun changed in midair, becoming smaller and thinner. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z Lasting less time than the massive first stage, and thrusting much more smoothly, it seemed almost like an afterthought. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z The red-and-gold glass doors appeared, and she could see the wreaths and candles that bedecked the massive hall. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z Though Babi worked at Silo, Kabul’s gigantic bread factory, where he labored amid the heat and the humming machinery stoking the massive ovens and mill grains all day, he was a university-educated man. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z A dark shape started emerging from the concrete of the parking lot, a massive form of twisted ink and ice. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z They suggested that in addition to the photon, there were three other spin-1 particles, known collectively as massive vector bosons, that carried the weak force. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z He fell into a coma and died two days later from a massive skull fracture. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z The room was the size of the main portion of her barn, but instead of being filled with hay and goats, it was filled with a huge, tall bed and a massive carved wardrobe. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z There is word of a massive naval evacuation and we are preparing at the port. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z Once again, the jungle felt massive, dense, and even sentient. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z I make sure I’m sheltered from view behind the cover of the massive tree, push the vines aside, and step inside. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z Two huge women with spoiled-cream complexions seemed to struggle with their massive bodies as they came past, their flowered hips trembling like threatening flames. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z Calakmul's inhabitants had cut a little divot into its flanks for their city, but now the vegetation, massive and indifferent, was smothering every trace of their existence. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Next to it The Club History of London, an equally massive set, bound in pale calfhide. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z Earlier, when I drove to Gray Horse, I’d been startled by the sight of bison roaming through the prairie with their bowed heads and massive woolly bodies supported seemingly impossibly on narrow legs. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z The marchers streamed through the massive stone Brandenburg Gate and turned down Wilhelmstrasse. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z One by one, like massive falling dominoes, more workstations lower from hidden pockets in the surrounding walls of the room. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z The dam was called the St. Francis Dam, and it filled the canyon with a massive reservoir. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z It was such bad karma, the company sold it to some other hotel chain, and built a new hotel—a massive green Oz-like gambling cathedral. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z After World War I, MID spent years building up a massive internal file on the “Jewish Question.” The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z A massive vanity is carried into the center of the room. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z Behind the college was a massive brownstone armory, and a block away, across the street, was a Catholic church with a huge cross on its lawn upon which was the crucified figure of Jesus. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z A massive park covers nearly the entire lower floor. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z The sleeping face of Gaea appeared on the side of Half-Blood Hill—her massive features formed from the shadows on the grassy slopes. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z We followed him into a large room dominated by a massive oval table, its wood polished to a mirror shine. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z Colleges, though most have invested in massive bandwidth to give their students easy access to the Net, remain collective enterprises. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Stone Fox knelt down and put one massive hand on Searchlight’s chest. Stone Fox 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z They performed an autopsy on him, and when they opened his skull, they found a massive, fatal hemorrhage at the center of the brain. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Its wings moved up and down with long, massive flaps that swept away the clouds we were flying through. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z High John led us to the foot of the large sycamore tree, and once again I stood in awe of its massive size. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z But it simply clamped its huge, flat mouth down on one end of the trunk and twisted its massive neck. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z A guard bear pulled back a massive bolt, and the sergeant suddenly swung his paw at Lyra, knocking her head over heels through the doorway. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z However massive, they were ready to topple if you pushed them the wrong way. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z Oriana’s current maid, a hairy, wizened creature named Toadfloss, brings tea and cakes, meat and jam, all piled on a massive silver tray. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z The Savoy Ballroom is massive, even compared to the Roseland back in Boston: an expanse of waxed dance floor positively stuffed with Lindy Hoppers dancing elbow to elbow. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z At one end lay a massive bed of sheepskins and drakon leather. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z My dad is somewhere inside this massive place. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z By early 9 if 3, the Soviet army had finally halted the massive German invasion just short of the Soviet cities of Stalingrad, Moscow, and Leningrad. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Violence flared in urban communities, not simply because of the new drug—crack—but because of the massive crackdown, which radically reshaped the traditional life course for young black men. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Its iron-crowned battlements, massive towers, and thick red walls gave it the aspect of a ferocious beast hunched above river and streets. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z It looked like some kind of complex drilling apparatus, or the cockpit of a gyropter, or the cabin of a massive crane. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z I mean, I had to have known this big thing, this massive news about my whole entire world, but I just kept thinking, Mom and Dad don’t know about us. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z Travel to the Moon and you will be much lighter but no less massive. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z The massive star winds up being a gigantic ball of neutrons: a neutron star. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z It was black, with a massive body like a bull’s. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z “I see. And none of this . He waved a massive hand. “None of this ten-hour business, eh?” Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z Barbarossa shifted his massive body forward a bit further and grabbed the pole with his ringed fingers. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z She froze, but as she did so, a massive wind shoved into her from behind, making her stagger into the room. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z The conference unanimously voted to initiate a massive countrywide antipass campaign beginning March 31 and climaxing on June 26 with a great bonfire of passes. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z He holds up Abby’s phone, with its Rifle floral phone case—and sure enough, there’s a massive text thread of photos. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z The massive wheels tore deep trenches into the hard soil, the engine screamed, and my world contracted to noise and the stark, blinding headlight. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z “Bony ones, old ones, ones with jaws of massive teeth, some with fins or fangs or scales.” A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z Floating in the sea of black, we were forced to witness the massive and grotesque deaths of thousands of people. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z On one end was a massive wall-size screen and overhead there were cameras in the ceiling for teleconferencing. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z A massive curving staircase dominated the west side of the room. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z A massive orchestra—the Berlin Philharmonic merged with the national orchestra and supplemented by half a dozen military bands-—launched into Wagner’s Huldigungsmarsch, the March of Homage. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Suddenly, a massive image of Mr. Lemoncello’s face appeared on the video wall. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z He was a powerfully built man, deep-chested, broad- shouldered, massive, and yet quick in his movements, springly and agile. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z A massive procession of people and carts created a long column, as far as the eye could see. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z A candidate star must be ten to twenty times as massive as our own Sun and "we don’t have anything of the requisite size that’s that close. The universe is a mercifully big place." A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z It was like a massive underground multilevel labyrinth. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z Around her waist she wears a skirt of patchwork furs, and in one massive hand she carries what looks like an inkpot. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Then Percy ran to the starboard rail, pushed another massive wave away from the ship and jumped overboard. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z At six, the massive presses would roar into action, rolling out 200,000 copies of the Times every hour. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z The reason this sinkhole had done such massive damage to the school was that all the portables were connected by wooden walkways. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z “I’m glad we didn’t have to fight that one,” Harry whispered as they stepped carefully over one of its massive legs. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z Now, forty thousand light-years from home, we find ourselves falling toward the massive center of the Milky Way. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z So he surrounded his capital city with a massive wall, about six kilometers long, whose remains stand to this day. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Stegosaurs would haul massive carts full of collected dinopoop up there at the end of each day: you could catch whiffs of it all the way downtown. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z After they said grace, Felix took a massive scoop of spaghetti and poured a ladle of sauce on top. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z Bison can run for hours at thirty miles per hour and use their massive, horned skulls like battering rams. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z “Teamsters with their teams and dangling traces, retreating infantry without guns, many without hats, a harmless mob, with massive columns of the enemy moving orderly on.” Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z Oriana looks like a rose in bloom beside him, wearing a massive necklace of rough-cut green emeralds at her throat, large enough to nearly count as armor. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z It is only powerful in a kind of collective sense, when one massive object like the Sun, holds on to another massive object like the Earth. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z Referred to the embryo’s troublesome tendency to anaemia, to the massive doses of hog’s stomach extract and foetal foal’s liver with which, in consequence, it had to be supplied. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z The only people who traveled such long distances to games in massive numbers were Permian fans. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Agnes said nothing, but her massive frame blocked the only exit, and the set of her jaw promised a world of hurt. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z The knife tip leapt on the rock under the massive blow. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Tom Weylin was tall himself, but too lean to be as impressive as his massive slave. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z The massive head of a hairy boar with jutting tusks hung mounted on the wall. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z Until one day, when a French diamond trader, during a trip to the Golconda Mines in India, was shown a massive pear-cut diamond. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z It was like they were in a massive empty room with thick curtains pulled all around them. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z A second theory, unappealing to those Japanese who prefer the first theory, argues instead that the Yayoi transition represents a massive influx of immigrants from Korea, carrying Korean farming practices, culture, and genes. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z By early middle age, Harding’s biographer Francis Russell writes, his “lusty black eyebrows contrasted with his steel-gray hair to give the effect of force, his massive shoulders and bronzed complexion gave the effect of health.” Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z ‘There was a massive lawsuit pending against her for manipulating investor returns. A man named Royal Rampling is at the helm of it. Ever heard that name before?” Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z He never really thought to notice butts, unless they were unusually massive. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z Why did I have a massive tumor squished across my face? Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z In a massive valley between two of the largest peaks, a ragged wall of ice rose out of the sea, filling the entire gorge. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z The Crab Nebula is the remains of a massive star that blew itself up. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Two pearl lighthouses with massive crystals on their tops stood at the end of each crescent point. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z Until an entrance opens, like a cave, but really just mangled trees and roots in a massive pile. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z Three of the massive stones were stacked together to form a huge arch, like a massive doorway. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Smaller tunnels branch off the main chamber, like a massive glowing version of Lita’s fire ant colony sculpture. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z With a massive effort, he pulled himself back to the present and listened to what Moody was saying. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z It operated at warp speed and had massive storage capacity so that he could mine the scientific world on every front, synthesize the data, and adapt it to his needs. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z The rain had darkened the pale pink stone of the massive walls to the color of blood. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Nergal threw off the tiger and grabbed the panther around the throat, his massive hand easily encircling its neck. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z Just as space gets distorted close to a massive object, time does, too. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z I rode down four levels to my armory, a massive vault filled with storage shelves, display cases, and weapon racks. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z So there are two massive layers of data to be mined here: the information that people include in their ads and the level of response gleaned by any particular ad. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z When a man has looked upon such massive waste of life as I have witnessed in these three battles, the presumption to consider his own little personal dreams becomes a matter of supreme egotism. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z Horses, four times as massive, were profoundly, terribly novel. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z May it last for thousands of years, Until this tiny stone will grow Into a massive rock, and the moss Will cover it deep and thick. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z Over its massive western shoulder flowed the ghost torrent of Alyssa's Tears. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z While the FBI conducted a massive nationwide hunt, the Ellsbergs moved by night from place to place. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z “Gentlemen,” said Mr. Jaggers, deliberately putting down the glass, and hauling out his gold repeater by its massive chain, “I am exceedingly sorry to announce that it’s half past nine.” Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z The castle entrance led into a massive foyer whose walls, floor, and ceiling were all made of gold. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z Three massive forms lay ahead of us, one in the road and two more in the field adjacent, just the other side of a shallow ditch. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z A number of Confederate deserters were captured by the Union forces, and they said that another Confederate general, James Longstreet, had come to Lee’s defense with massive reinforcements. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z We pass a crumbling brick mailbox and turn down a drive lined on both sides by massive trees without leaves. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z There’s a massive sheet cake at lunch, and when I get to the table, everyone is wearing party hats. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z Dr. Margot waves her permission and saunters after the others, staying dry under her massive umbrella. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z I warned him that if he failed to call the con-vention we would stage the country’s most massive three-day strike ever, beginning on May 29. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z She glanced at the images in the northern doorway—the massive dark shape looming over Percy and Annabeth. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z At the same time, the German dictator built up a huge military and started hacking out what he called a “Greater Germany,” a massive European empire that Hitler insisted rightfully belonged to Germans. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z In under one hundred milliseconds, the massive combustion pressure burst the container, and the resulting explosion ripped the airlock door to shreds. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z The water erupted in a massive geyser and swallowed them whole. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z Above us, stern nuns in crisp whites watched our intrusion from the strokes of a massive oil painting housed in a gilt frame. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z I walked back to Emma, still poring over her massive book. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z Shoulders slumped, I step into a massive, darkened theater with endless rows of seats curving around a wide stage. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z The whole thing exploded, throwing a massive ball of flame up in my face. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z A loop of rough leather, fastened to the metal with a massive staple. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z For ten hours a day, six days a week, they disassemble massive forging presses and stack the usable metal in crates to be loaded onto train cars. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z It sat on a street of massive homes and towering trees in a place called Lake Forest. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z As massive as a twelve- story building, it loomed over our heads, leaning 30 degrees past vertical. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z "There is a grand monument I had made," the father said, leading them to a massive stone placard. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z Hams and pheasants were hanging from the ceiling, a copper kettle was boiling on the open fire, and in the corner stood a massive bed with a patchwork quilt over it. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z In Berlin thousands of celebrants gathered to watch and to cheer as Hitler reviewed a procession of more than fifteen hundred tanks, armored vehicles, and artillery pieces rumbling through the city’s massive park, the Tiergarten. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z And not just any old operation—a massive one that might make me look normal? Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z When she saw the massive dome of craggy black and brown squares, the word turtle simply did not compute. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z The only exit to the cave was blocked by a massive abalone shell—its surface glistening in pearl and rose and turquoise. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Directly in front of them, lying against the side of the mountain, Sophie could see a massive round stone. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z How does the design of the system help to ensure the creation of a massive undercaste? The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Fifteen minutes later the roles were reversed, and I was holding the massive arm of one of the Antonelli twins as he sputtered and teared. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z His image is accompanied by shots of military personnel helping families evacuate onto massive trucks, handing out water to long lines of people. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z Beyond the arch stretched the great span that the Valyrians had built at the height of their glory, its fused stone roadway supported by massive piers. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z And more than that, there must be a massive surrounding sports complex to provide venues for a wide variety of competitions, a single, unified Reichssportfeld. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z She also had to sort through the unit’s massive backlog of paperwork. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z Some afternoons she spent time reorganizing the massive room so that she could find things more easily, although it was too cold to stay in there for long. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z The mayor’s introducing us as the massive doors open with a groan. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z And even then it was a long time before the implications of the theory for massive stars were understood. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z I could imagine those bloodshot eyes, set in that massive, scarred black face, sweeping over the sea. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z She was gorgeous, with glossy short hair and crazy-long legs, but with a massive scar across her face. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z The United States defied the blockade with a massive airlift of supply planes that flew over Soviet forces and directly into Tempelhof Airport in the Western sector of Berlin. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z My mom had heard JFK was massive, and she was terrified to navigate the airport's terminals on her own. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z As the tank collapsed, the molasses inside seemed to hover in the air for a split second—a massive roiling cloud. I Survived the Great Molasses Flood, 1919 2019-09-03T00:00:00Z At the mouth of the inlet, the massive shape of the turtle’s shell glinted like a burnished coin. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z It swirled up, hundreds of gallons of water in a massive icy funnel cloud. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z It creates a massive vapor lock, as it were, in mammalian fuel lines: The body is prevented from turning what it eats into a source of usable energy. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Leaders envisioned a powerful show of unity, a massive crowd of blacks and whites together parading through the Black Belt, crossing as one over the deadline, celebrating their common bond as laborers. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z As he was rubbing his eyes, Nathan felt the full weight of two massive bodies pushing him up against the car. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z It moved with the slow, massive confidence of a continent. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z They made their way inside, through the massive eight-foot door that felt like it weighed a ton. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z The narrow path changed direction often, winding up the slope and down again; here and there, near it or away off among the massive trunks of the hemmens, stood the small, forest-colored houses. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z He stopped when Newt did, right next to the massive wall towering above them like a skyscraper—another random image that floated in the murky pool of his memory wipe. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z Pressing the cold iron between their legs, they felt the massive surge of power as Iorek began to move. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z A massive built dog was sitting on her shoulders and shivering and growling. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z At the opposite end stood a massive block of blue ice. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z Somehow, Tiny Cooper manages to contort himself so that his massive head cries on my narrow shoulder. Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z She let her head tilt sideways, closed her eyes, and shook her massive trunk, letting the laughter fall like a wash of red leaves all around us. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z The last theory accepts the evidence for immigration from Korea but denies that it was massive. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Gogol gives her a bunch of sunflowers whose massive stems are heavier in his arms than the bottle of wine he’s also brought. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z They turned to escape in the other direction, but crash! a massive limb hit the ground just feet from where they stood. I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980 2016-08-01T00:00:00Z I let a few more feet of paper tumble forward so it looked like a massive document. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z Black holes are very, very massive, so they are subject to the laws of relativity; at the same time, black holes are very, very tiny, so they are in the domain of quantum mechanics. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Before the Thunderhead, governments had constitutions and massive tomes of laws—yet even then, they were forever debated and challenged and manipulated. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z I periodically glanced at my printed-out MapQuest directions until I came upon the Fairplex and pulled into the massive parking lot. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z Lara assures everyone that she’s seen the rules on her father’s desk and that it’s basically a massive obstacle course with little stations where we have to answer supernatural trivia questions. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z We made our way around the massive windowless block that was the Archives. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z It was the conflation of blackness and crime in the media and political discourse that made the drug war and the sudden, massive expansion of our prison system possible. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z And then another fell, farther off; she saw the massive thing descend, and watched it crash into the buttress-like root of the nearest trunk and roll away. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z It starts out small and thin, like a rapier’s blade, but I push more of the splendor into it, until I’m holding what looks like a massive broadsword. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z The tunnel was called Operation Gold, but the massive project quickly earned a nickname: "Harvey's Hole." Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Nixon didn’t admit that he was carrying on his massive, clandestine bombing of Cambodia. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z But it was obvious that if he changed back into his human form right now, in the middle of the massive Sixer onslaught, he’d be killed instantly too. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z Robbie, appealed to, nodded his massive head up and down once. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z Then Tyson let go and laughed with delight, looking Percy over with that massive baby brown eye. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z That demographic shift of the last 500 years—the most massive shift on any continent except Australia—has its ultimate roots in developments between about 11,000 B.C. and A.D. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The liquid rushed down a wooden gutter directly into the boiling house, a building of massive furnaces and cauldrons, where the syrup was heated and strained and turned into crystals. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z Off to their left, massive housing projects cut into the night sky. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z A massive and chaotic evacuation of the city was under way in the middle of the autumn mud season, called the rasputitsa. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z It was as if the gravitational pull of the earth had been multiplied; or as if he lay on the bottom of the ocean, all the massive waves weighing on him. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z "Because all of them have had massive overdoses, just like you. It's thrown the alarm-clock right out of whack!" The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z He takes out a notebook, and after about ten minutes, he opens the massive gates and lets us in. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z General relativity holds sway in the realm of the very, very big: the most massive objects in the universe, such as stars, solar systems, and galaxies. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Leopard paused in mid-paw-lick, Python raised his massive head from the stone floor, and the sky god sat moodily on the throne. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z Outside the ballparks, America was in the midst of a massive and uncertain shift. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z The massive scale of these domestic arrangements seems not to have impeded his imperial progress. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z One massive gulp and they were all gone. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z I lift my skirts and trail the group up a massive staircase, losing count after one hundred steps. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z To go out battling against massive odds before, inevitably, being killed, just like her mother had. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z We lie silently under outer space, taking in all those pinpricks of light, and I too feel dwarfed by the massive universe. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Gilgamesh faced us both, arms folded across his massive pectorals, and for a moment, he was the man in charge once more—the king. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z Less than four weeks later, on April 12, the president was dead of a massive stroke at the age of sixty-three. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Johannesburg used to have this epic drive-in movie theater, Top Star Drive-In, on top of a massive mine dump outside the city. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z It sounded like a massive bike with a busted chain—but they lurched forward. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z Odysseus with massive hand drew his rich mantle down over his brow, cloaking his face with it, to make the Phaiakians miss the secret tears that started to his eyes. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z A massive crowd of our supporters was blocking traffic in Twist Street; we could hear them cheering and singing, and they could hear us answering from inside the van. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Then even the static cuts out, and the silence in the headphones feels like something massive moving through space, a ghostly airship slowly descending. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z As for Olmsted, Burnham was struck by the slightness of his frame, which seemed structurally insufficient to support so massive a skull. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z But massive amounts of confusion and dread and disbelief. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z But Matthias stepped between them, holding them each back with a massive hand. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z We know, too, that the antimosquito breeding campaigns in Cuba and Panama were very effective in halting the infections and that massive insecticide campaigns can control the populations of Aedes aegypti. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z Thomas could picture it all: the creature’s metal spikes digging into the wooden sides of the Homestead, the massive creature rolling its body, climbing up toward their room, defying gravity with its strength. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z The massive brown structure rose into the dusty sky and held the cross of Christ for all to see. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z He was well over seven feet tall, closer to eight, with massive shoulders and arms thick as the trunks of small trees. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z "If I had thought to see war again in my lifetime, I should have eaten a few less eels," he'd told Catelyn when he met her ship, slapping his massive belly with both hands. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Four horses—massive golden horses—stood frozen there, stomping and neighing. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z Its head slammed against the ceiling and its body splashed back into the water, creating massive waves. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z He had massive, soft hands, which he pressed flat against his temples when he spoke. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z The massive thighs which emerged from out of the smock were encased in a pair of extraordinary breeches, bottle-green in colour and made of coarse twill. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z Her bedchamber was the only place that Arya liked in all of King's Landing, and the thing she liked best about it was the door, a massive slab of dark oak with black iron bands. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z This one massive miscarriage of justice had afflicted the whole community with despair and made it hard for me to be dispassionate. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z But after the oil crash and the onset of the energy crisis, large cities had been flooded with refugees from surrounding suburban and rural areas, resulting in a massive urban housing shortage. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z In his rousing baritone voice, he called for massive street demonstrations if Alabama’s blacks were not allowed to register as voters. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z She drew out a large black key from the pocket of her skirt and unlocked the cellar door, a massive block of thick oak. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z It was never easy to get these massive machines safely off the ground. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Many of history’s greatest horses had faltered under 128 pounds or more; Seabiscuit had set two track records under 133 pounds and four more under 130 while conceding massive amounts of weight to his opponents. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z We take our bags and follow him through the doors of the massive otogar. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z A massive marketing campaign promoted the launch of the OASIS. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z Though she was barely an inch over five feet tall, her arms were massive with thick, knotted biceps and her forearms were threaded with protruding veins and hard sinew. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Using my shoulders, I tried to shake him, but the massive body did not move. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z When they collided, the sound was like the crash of two massive falling boulders. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z Not massive and empty at all, but headlong. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z She jumped down, and the two of them darted back and forth on the massive leaf that was as wide as a car. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z In the absence of a massive, grassroots movement directly challenging the racial caste system, Jim Crow might be alive and well today. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z There was massive access to new kinds of media that hadn’t existed in the mainstream just five years earlier. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z Her leg was going to be painful; already it was red and swollen where the car had struck it, and a dark, massive bruise was forming. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Then Dudley was falling, as if someone had undercut his legs, his massive frame smashing against the porch. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z That feeling that reminds you how massive this world is, how tiny but powerful humans are. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z The student movement was infiltrated, its leaders arrested in massive predawn raids and detained without trial. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z Sawed circular tree trunks were stacked on their sides, creating a massive wall behind the chaha’oh. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z Finally it tilted its massive head, raised its trunk, and roared into the empty landscape. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z Though he was not much taller than Grandma, the thickness of his brawny physique made him seem massive. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z If there's one person in our family who deserves the credit for the close-knit relationships between us cousins, it's Dayee Mehrdad, otherwise known as the true patriarch of our massive brood. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z The book was about, among other things, a massive religious movement—a reawakening of sorts—that occurred simultaneously with the opening of all these microscopic doors that allowed visitors from space to overrun the earth. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z Outside the glass room, he had a setup much like Tuske- gee’s, with massive vats of culture medium, only bigger. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z Peering into the dark, he saw the massive pyramid skylights that marked the roof. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z The Sisters of the Star lived in the Tower, a massive structure that unsettled the eye and confounded the mind. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z I went on to insist that the agents revise their protocols so that in the future Malia and Sasha could leave the White House safely and without some massive advance planning effort. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Walker, America soon learned, was overseeing a massive KGB spy ring in the US Navy that stretched back eighteen years. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Mom would raise a massive stink, and I would never be able to show my face in public again. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z We follow the servant into a massive treatment salon. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z It was a fin, it had to be, a massive fin, bigger than anything Jinny could have imagined. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z He didn’t have a lot of free hours, because basketball was a demanding extracurricular activity and a massive time-suck, but we always found a way to make it work. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z Inej glanced up to where the Ice Court stood like a great white sentinel on a massive cliff overlooking the harbor. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z On some, intelligent life may have evolved, reworking the planetary surface in some massive engineering enterprise. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z And the best way to send this message was by massive and ongoing buildups of their stockpiles of nuclear weapons. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Since we think there may be massive black holes at the centers of some galaxies, this is a conceivable explanation of their red shifts. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Something called London by somebody called Pennant, six volumes bound in red leather—massive books, two feet tall. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z I swore it would grow to be a massive tree whose roots would strangle them all. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z It was like standing in the hollowed-out trunk of a massive tree, something long dead and howling with echoes. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z Fire across the ridge, down the mountainside, spreading inland, tree by tree, burning like massive candles, pop-pop-popping and falling, striking more trees, burning ground cover, eating the landscape alive. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z Then a massive shape about the size of a blue whale swam over the light source, creating a huge, dark shadow. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z It was a massive pile of silver and gold paper; ribbons streaked the pile with bands of deep color. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z And I reached and reached, pulling massive armfuls of the water back along my sides as I kicked through the current. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z Once they discovered he was a big softie, despite his massive strength and his scary looks, they made them selves feel good by picking on him. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z Hodor lifted Bran as easy as if he were a bale of hay, and cradled him against his massive chest. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Butler set the fairy down, brushing his tunic with massive fingers. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z On each wagon, a massive gun barrel—somewhere between the shape of a rifle and a cannon—jutted out into the space where a team of horses would ordinarily be hitched. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z The broad concrete walkways curved in and around the massive yellow buildings that rose taller than anything else in the neighborhood. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z It had required at least two rolls of double-sided tape for the work of art to take up one massive wall of my bedroom. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z The stage in King Middle auditorium is massive, which is nothing compared to the Miss America stage, I’m sure. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z Without a fire in the hearth, the massive, wood-paneled room was as cold as a tomb. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z In the distance loomed the massive wall of the Brooks Range, the massive mountains that rimmed the North Slope on the south. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Over and over on the news, it’s the same image: the massive neoclassical building that used to take up an entire city block. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z But Bo was standing in front of the massive portal of the Basilica, looking up at the horses. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z Typical JP: His face was blacked, which was a good cover for the massive purple bruise around his eye, and he was dressed in combat fatigues with a camouflaged bucket hat that shaded his eyes. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z Another prediction of general relativity is that time should appear to run slower near a massive body like the earth. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z He stretches back and clasps his hands over his massive, bricklike midsection. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z At the end of the spur was a massive boulder. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z His eyes flicked up at the hole in the ceiling and then swept over the massive metal air conditioner wedged into the floor. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z The ground rippled as the grass became folds of silk—the dress of a massive goddess. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z Bobby Gene stared at the massive pile she left behind. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z One was brawny, with a massive jut of jaw and arms thick with muscle. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Before Calder could say anything, Mr. Watch pointed toward a massive pile of children’s picture books. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z I carved a massive cake of beeswax into bits and rolled them in my hands until they softened— no long task, for a burning heat came down from Helios, lord of high noon. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z A massive bonfire was burning at the center, which had been emptied of market stalls and was now filled with revelers in costumes of all colors and kinds. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z At first, Joseph thought the panelled office was empty, but then he saw someone standing by the gothic windows, on the other side of a massive desk. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z A group of tribal men nearby heaved their massive chests in anger and clenched their fists. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z ‘What’s the matter with you?’ the Matron shouted, and the sheer force of her voice caused that massive bosom to quiver like a gigantic blancmange. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z The two loops tremble, tear, and form one loop: a slightly more massive black hole. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Everything had gone wrong inside this man, absolutely everything, any one of which could have been fatal: the clotting, the massive hemorrhages, the liver turned into pudding, the intestines full of blood. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Their flanks were so massive that it would not be hard to imagine them pulling Malaga Island right up to the mainland, if they could only find the right place to tie on to. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z This had serious implications for the ultimate fate of massive stars. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z The survivors, in massive numbers, threw themselves into the sea and drowned. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The horizon brightened a little more as the lizard closed his eyes and took in a massive breath. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z On her left were two matrons, with massive foreheads and bonnets to match, discussing Women’s Rights and making tatting. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z We were in the process of building a massive grassroots campaign network—ultimately two hundred staffers in thirty-seven offices—the largest in the history of the Iowa caucuses. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z With a sudden massive effort he flung himself sideways, freeing one wing and crushing Mrs. Coulter against a rock. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z As Ben tried to clear his head he had one crystal clear vision: his father coming out of the stands, massive, enraged, and shouting words that Ben could not hear. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z “They all had massive pain. And loss of sanity. Darnell was hallucinating— plain crazy. And then Misty. And the Toad ...” Trina posed a question. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z Some scientists have theorized that Miranda's piecemeal structure is the result of a massive impact that broke the moon into several pieces that—held together by her gravity—were reformed into something entirely unique. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z The troll lifted massive shaggy shoulders, its retractable claws sliding out with an ominous schiiick. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z Wide gazing beneath his massive scowling forehead, they had a withdrawn and distracted appearance. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z He slows and points to a massive piece, a wooden tiger mauling a man dressed as a European soldier, the sign declaring: TIPU’S TIGER. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z All around him, kids stagger under massive armloads of chain, waiting to be loaded. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z As the Cold War escalated, some scientists exposed Henrietta’s cells to massive doses of radiation to study how nuclear bombs destroyed cells and find ways to reverse that damage. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z It consisted of a single sheet of iron, dark and dented, with eyeholes on top and a massive chain underneath. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z The club itself was a massive cobalt blue sphere, three kilometers in diameter, floating thirty meters off the ground. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z Every weekday, and even on Saturday when times were good, I could watch the black coal cars rolling beneath the tipple to receive their massive loads and then smoke-spouting locomotives straining to pull them away. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z We were just in Times Square, and visited the massive Hershey’s store there, where we got far too many edible souvenirs. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z There was a massive gash-like opening that was shaped like a frown on the roof. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z Then Trouble noticed two things—one, a pair of black boots was sticking out of a shrub beside the door, and two, there was a massive human standing in the doorway. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z But a more massive star, left, after its supernova phase, with, say, five times the Sun’s mass, has an even more remarkable fate reserved for it—its gravity will turn it into a black hole. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z It’s not easy to carry around, especially when encased inside a massive skull. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z “Oh, right, right,” he said, but his eyes had already traveled to the massive staircase, and the huge number of family photos that lined the wall next to it. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z There was little experience of field use for either, and no one knew what their effects would be on wild birds, fishes, or mammals when applied on a massive scale. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z The cinema itself is small, but the screen is massive. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z They turned onto a new road, and Koffi eyed the massive golden gates at its end, heralded by two Sons of the Six. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z Russian forces stopped the German advance just short of Moscow, but the two massive armies were still slugging it out along a battlefront stretching 1,500 miles from north to south. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Its massive talons dug into the mud as it pulled itself forward, its tail whipping from side to side. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z He raised its massive left foot, preparing to crush me. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z The government was then engaged in a massive effort to make a success of its separate development policy, and “quasi-independent” homelands. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “Every transport terminal on the planet has been spitting out avatars since last night,” he said, motioning to the scene around us with his Gundam’s massive hand. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z The storm had tom the forest to pieces—up in back of the ridge it looked like a giant had become angry and used some kind of a massive meatgrinder on the trees. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z Beyond this point, he explained, there would be not enough depth below the keel, even with the massive flood from the north. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z The boat had been painted dark blue at one point, but the hull was so crusted with tar and salt it looked like one massive nautical bruise. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z Annabeth could imagine being an Ancient Greek, walking into the Parthenon and seeing this massive goddess with her shield, spear, and python, her free hand holding out Nike, the winged spirit of victory. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z In the distance, near the massive brick gateway, I can see that the train has been emptied. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Dr. Talc saw again Mr. Reilly with his massive muffler and that awful girl anarchist with the valise who traveled around with Mr. Reilly and littered the campus with leaflets. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z No people poked their heads out of their massive homes to investigate the intruders. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z Had Jupiter been several dozen times more massive, the matter in its interior would have undergone thermonuclear reactions, and Jupiter would have begun to shine by its own light. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z She looked down toward the swamp and the barn and the workshop and the tree house, with its round windows peering out from the sides of the massive tree trunk like astonished, unblinking eyes. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z The Matron stepped back a couple of paces and folded her arms across, or rather underneath, her massive chest. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z It took her a while to find the Hidden Market, but once she arrived on that grimy canalway, she had spied two men—one massive, one short—hawking orbs on a rickety table. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z His legs were massive columns, his face a crag, with a granite-hard jaw and eyes black as chunks of obsidian beneath their painted lids. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z Darting through the huge crowd, across the muddy lawn, past Dave and his crew, around the massive saw, beneath the stump grinder, and finally, triumphantly up my trunk, was none other than Flashlight. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z He wondered if the metal rods could withstand a full-frontal attack from Dozer’s and Petunia’s massive teeth, enormous heads, and vise-grip jaws. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z Instead, I stood in a massive rectangular room—an audience chamber, from the looks of it. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z The new system of control is traceable, to a significant degree, to a massive bribe offered to state and local law enforcement by the federal government. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z From the overarching metal frame crowning each machine, wooden harnesses, carrying hundreds of warp threads drawn from a massive beam at the back of each loom, clanked up and down. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z The others followed, staying close to their massive bodyguard. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z He wasn’t familiar at all, but his massive grief drew me to him, just like Newton’s gravitational attraction. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z The foundations of die Great Pyramid of Meereen were massive and thick to support the weight of the huge structure overhead; even the interior walls were three times thicker than any castle’s curtain walls. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z She stumbled over the roots of a massive, eighty-foot oak that towered above her and landed on her knees. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z There are at least four giant containers of pastas and two massive meatball subs on the table, not counting the empty packaging that my brothers already cleared out. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z They passed a dome-shaped aviary full of black-and-white impundulus, barely mindful to cover their heads as the birds beat their massive wings and sent sparks of lightning into the sky. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z The sitting room is large, and off to the side is a massive dining room with seating for forty. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z Before the hearth stood a massive, long table, with benches and chairs. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z Bottom line: Cory was exactly the kind of boy you’d expect to be caught auctioning off a massive bag of probably stolen fireworks. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z Enough new snow had accumulated that I feared a massive slab avalanche had released on the slopes above, but when I spun around to look I saw nothing. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z The center of the hallway rose upward, creating a massive atrium with shattered glass skylights that cut through the roof forty feet above. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z The medallions were pure gold, massive and ornate, each one as large as a man's hand. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z It seemed to him very likely that the globular clusters used in this investigation, nearly a hundred of them, would be orbiting about, paying homage to, the massive center of the Milky Way. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z When the sky began to lighten, Ellsberg looked to his left and watched a massive red sun rising, it seemed, straight out of the water. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z The resin was too high for him to reach without climbing, but he was happy to do that; the massive wide branches, sweeping low over the grass, made it feel totally secure. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z She remembered that the Rusties didn’t use hoverstruts; every building was squat, crude, and massive, and needed a steel skeleton to keep it from falling down. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z Not little fires, either, but massive walls of flame that licked high into the air. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z Armed with water cannons and massive hoses, they shot thick streams of canal water up into the third-story windows. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z The stallion lowered his head, flesh quivering on his massive, gleaming neck. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z But in the largeness of the country shown on the map, the massive forest the map showed, the river was a small thing, and he had negated it. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z Everybody bawled, there was some kind of massive family reconciliation, and Didu hasn't let go of me since. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Its “Sinification” involved the drastic homogenization of a huge region in an ancient melting pot, the repopulation of tropical Southeast Asia, and the exertion of a massive influence on Japan, Korea, and possibly even India. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Its massive dome, capped over white alabaster stonework, seemed determined to hold every one of the stars’ glittering lights in its reflection. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z A crooked stone path led past a crazy assortment of tiny altars and massive domed vaults. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z He laced his massive arms through mine and pulled back so that my stomach and chest were totally exposed. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z In the center of the outdoor work area is one of Guillermo’s massive couples but unfinished, and against the far fence is another mammoth work called Three Brothers. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z My grandmother was tremendously old and wrinkled, with a massive wide body which was smothered in grey lace. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z I fight the urge to leave and instead follow Tats to the kitchen at the end of the massive foyer. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z After only a few minutes' walk, I came to the massive wall that encircled the city. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z The lump was a massive bulge that jutted out from the top of my forehead and ran all the way down to the tip of where my nose should have been. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z But the massive dog refused to heed his whimpering request until he crossed some invisible boundary beyond which the savage cur would not travel. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Nothing then known could plausibly explain what motored these massive movements. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z “Tristan,” a massive voice rumbled, “I’m glad you decided to join us.” Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z At dinner, we sit at a massive table carved along all four sides with images of piping fauns and dancing imps. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Down a dark hatch we go where the massive cannon awaits. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z He handed out massive bribes to the Nazis in command of Auschwitz, all the while arguing that the women were "experts," "highly trained," and "irreplaceable." The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z We run past the Hot Looks store, where all the mannequins have hourglass figures and massive breasts, and I unknowingly let out a huge sigh. Watch Us Rise 2019-02-12T00:00:00Z “Yes. An aneurysm can burst, causing a massive stroke and death.” Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z They depart Christmas Day, driving with their massive collection of luggage to Logan when they should be home opening gifts. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z However, a real particle close to a massive body has less energy than if it were far away, because it would take energy to lift it far away against the gravitational attraction of the body. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z She turned right, drove past the parade grounds with its flagpole, and parked her car near a massive, almost windowless building made of concrete and yellow bricks that covered almost ten acres of ground. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z First, it wasn’t like the entire valley was vaulting toward the sky because of an earthquake or massive shifting of the earth’s crust. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z “That’s the key. Archimedes also invented a massive claw that could swing on a crane and pluck enemy ships out of the water.” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z This one cop came over to where I was with my computer and pulled this massive assault rifle on me. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z They scrambled between the massive blue legs and flattened themselves in the mud, crawling as close as they could to his loincloth. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z The air was dank and musty—like the smell of wet blankets—and the massive stone walls were slimy to the touch. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z Except for where the paintings hung, the walls of the study were completely covered with stuffed and mounted heads of every imaginable type of beast—from tiny rabbits to a massive, antlered elk. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z On the sidewalk, a massive wolf paced restlessly. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z “They are calling it a massive stroke. We’re lucky he didn’t die. But he’s still not conscious yet, so we don’t know how it has affected him.” Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z The houses are massive, and the streets are lined with looming trees. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z He didn’t want to play burdened by such a massive disadvantage; the forfeited game could possibly decide the match’s outcome. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z No one could explain how such massive particles could fit in the nucleus; or how, once wedged there, the devilishly energetic particles could be made to stay put. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Before we reached the edge of the plateau, we could already see the motionless sea and, farther out, a massive, drowsy-looking promontory in the clear water. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z It is designed like a giant bicycle wheel in the sky, supported by a massive A-frame. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z The theater is massive and ornate, with rows upon rows of plush red velvet seats. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z Inside the harbor the water was calm, and as they moved past the massive breakwater Lyra began to feel unsteady from the lack of motion. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z Packingtown had grown over the last half of the nineteenth century as part of a massive transformation in the way America’s meat was processed. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z I think of the massive elephant-ear leaves and poisonous plants, and the tests I need to run. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z Almost as soon as Nixon got back home, North Vietnam launched a massive offensive in the South. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z The massive teeth snapped like a bear trap. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Our survival depends on committing our intelligence and resources on a massive scale to take charge of our own destiny, to guarantee that Richardson’s curve does not veer to the right. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The essential preliminary to a supernova explosion is the generation by silicon fusion of a massive iron core. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z What happened was a massive wedgie contest between the seventh and eighth graders, two pebble fights, and a full-tackle basketball game. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z From there it was easy: ledge to beam to lower ledge, and down with a dull clang as her bare feet struck the roof of a massive tank. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z It's like this place where everything is made of some kind of Oreo, and the river is an Oreo milk shake, and you sit on top of this massive Oreo and float down it. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z They staggered over slick glass ledges, around massive boulders, avoiding stalagmites that would’ve impaled them with any slip of the foot. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z When Junsoo wasn’t trying to run the wrong way and eat anything that he could catch, Junha would throw a massive tantrum. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z The entire west wall was a massive floor-to-ceiling window offering a breathtaking view of the vast cityscape outside. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z According to Annabeth, the hill they stood on had once been Sparta’s acropolis - its highest point and main fortress - but it was nothing like the massive Athenian acropolis Piper had seen in her dreams. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z Davis pulled open the front door, a massive pane of glass at least ten feet high, and we walked into an enormous marble-floored room. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z The dormitories we passed were massive and almost anonymous behind their thick layers of ivy, big, old-looking leaves you would have thought stayed there winter and summer, permanent hanging gardens in New Hampshire. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z He pauses for a moment, pressing his forehead to her massive stone one, before rising above her. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z Instead, we wore massive silver rings with brightly colored jewels and plenty of marcasite. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z Imperial guards labor to bring out massive gold-framed portraits of the princess the size of wall tapestries. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z So, naturally, Percy expected a massive last-minute fail. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z He was a big, burly brute with pig eyes, a massive gut, and an unkempt black beard that reminded her of Robert. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z A massive statue of a peacock carved from turquoise was arranged in one corner, and in the center, an open space was designated as a stage. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z She stopped as they stepped out of the hallway and into the quad, the massive room in the middle of campus where the lockers were located. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z Only a giant would have had the strength to sink the massive pillars there, in the deepest, swiftest section of the river. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z President Johnson tried to downplay the massive attack at a news conference on February 2, saying “a few bandits can do that in any city.” Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z Alec’s weathered face as he explained to them that after surviving such massive sun flares, their biggest and most immediate worry now was the surge of a tsunami. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z Rose, her massive curls tangled on her head in a sloppy bun, shot me a look from the tent she was dismantling, having been stuck with Homesteaders. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z Speaking at Selma's Brown Chapel on January 2, 1965, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. calls for massive voting rights demonstrations. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z They had stopped beside a massive log, overgrown with moss and ferns. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z On Christmas Eve, there’s abundant basting, boiling, browning, braising, and more baking, then the evening is spent at the Coopers’ drinking spiked eggnog and having a massive Uno tournament. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z A massive dark shape, vaguely humanoid, now loomed over them, its foot raised as if to crush Percy. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z Like Park had spent sixteen years acting weak and weird and girlie, and his dad had borne it on his massive shoulders. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z Because of the rallies, there’s lots of gunfire and massive arrests. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z Celia grinned, hanging her head upside down off the bed, her massive pile of curly hair brushing the floor. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z Quarantine and massive chemical campaigns are only extremely expensive ways of buying time. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z I gawked about me like the greenest country lad as we were escorted to a massive square hall with a lead roof and high, arched windows. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z In the center of the chamber was* the great table from which it took its name, a massive slab of carved wood fashioned at the command of Aegon Targaryen in the days before the Conquest. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z “Alter?” a voice called from far away as the water lifted up around us, as if displaced by a massive form that swam unseen through the black depths below. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z An hour later, my brothers are eating massive bowls of cereal and—miracle of miracles—Mom is dressed. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z Halfway across she saw a dark head rise above the hill, and a beast with a head as large as the moon rose to its hind feet, massive paws swinging. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Coach Parker gave massive bear hugs to everyone in sight while the Permian team gathered quietly in the center of the field to pray. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Down below, the hull of the Argo II gleamed as it floated over the forum, like some massive bronze party balloon. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Standing at the base of the massive concrete supports that formed the foundation for the bridge, Claire measured it with her eyes. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Soil and pebbles skittered across the ground, pulled towards his massive dragon feet. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z As a dining hall, it left much to be desired—it was dark, dirty, drafty, and hard to heat in winter, its cellars infested with rats, its massive wooden rafters worm-eaten and festooned with cobwebs. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z The massive gate set into the ring wall was already being lowered closed, and it struck the stones with an ominous series of clanks and groans. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z For a brief moment, I spot myself high above, my face massive and full of light. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z Physically, he was still sitting with Koffi, but in his mind, he was small again, one tiny body set against a massive jungle. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z At one point he said, “Now let me show you a bottle in which we have grown massive quantities of cancer cells.” The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z Very few of these stars are of the massive short-lived variety that squander their reserves of thermonuclear fuel. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Every glade and dale seemed to have just completed some massive cataclysm. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z A massive engine explodes around the bend and barrels past, so huge and so close I’m hit by a wall of wind. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z I remember him as big, but he seems more massive, more powerful than I even recall. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z There’s a massive TV facing the door, on which Templars are being brutalized. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z Mo- qorro’s voice was a bass drum that seemed to boom from somewhere deep within his massive torso. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z The United States provided massive amounts of aid to reconstruct West Germany and to assist other war-devastated countries. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z His fear of standing in front of the massive and angry Mother Water Monster vanished. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z She felt a bolt of cold fear strike at her, because he was so massive and so alien. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z He bowled them left, right, and center with his massive strength. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z The gathering Woolf had felt in Seabiscuit vented itself in a massive downward push. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z I remembered that Salma Auntie always cooked massive amounts of food when she was stressed out. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z A small town in Minnesota that I’ve passed through countless times en route to family reunions has a prison with a massive brick wall and turretlike guard towers, which I have spent hours thinking about. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “Oh! this!” she exclaimed, pointing at the massive bulge. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z But the mound builders in Louisiana built these massive constructions at a time when agriculture was barely under way—it was like the whiff in the air from a faraway ocean. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Sometimes, when I was old enough, we’d swim at the Wynnum Wading Pool—a massive ocean pool on the coast fed by the water coming in at high tide. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z Then she tied them both securely to a massive buttress of one of the roots, as thick around as her own hips. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z The BFG laid down his pencil and placed one massive ear close to the jar. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z He looked up, looked side to side, examined the massive slabs of stone as the uneasy feeling blossomed into outright dread. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z He hopped off the dactyl, careful not to land in the massive mound of pteropoop, and hurried over, satchel open. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z As I turned ahead, a massive form emerged from the darkness, intruding into the electrical lights’ harsh gleam. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z A dead rooster was hanging from one of his massive, gloved hands. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z In his hand was a massive push broom. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z Rather I should say I scrambled at the side of the massive stone. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z The Caribbean in those years was little more than a massive slave colony. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z It’s a massive haven that sells any book you can think of. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z When the panel clicked into place, the massive storage locker was completely hidden behind a seamless wall featuring a framed print of two bluebirds. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z He strove to make the ranch, called Ridgewood, a model of rustic self-sufficiency, complete with massive herds of cattle and sheep, several hundred horses, a dairy, a slaughterhouse, and fruit orchards. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z A tiny access door was set into the robot’s massive left foot, and it opened as I approached, revealing a small elevator inside. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z Like a fisherman in a rising storm taking the massive waves rolling all around him. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z Scott bumped into Mario with his massive force, and George used her speed mushrooms to plow through him at top speed. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z But there was another finding in the survey that perhaps explained why parents were not all that concerned: They themselves were massive consumers of media. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z Most importantly, they told me, it would mean a massive improvement to how I looked. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z I sucked in some air, worked up another massive sigh. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z The main room of the inn, where we supped, was enormous, with a wide fireplace and half a dozen massive tables. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z The building is massive, with off-white bricks and maroon steeples. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z He lowered his massive body to the ground. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z Two giants sat on the outskirts of the group, casting massive shadows over the scene, their faces cruel, rough-hewn like rock. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z Not more than a hundred yards away, through the tall trees in the garden, across the mown lawns and the tidy flower-beds, the massive shape of the Palace itself loomed through the darkness. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z A bank of clouds had been building, and a massive thunderhead reared thousands of feet up into the still-bright upper sky. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z The dignified theater with velvet curtains is now a massive holding cell for German prisoners. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z An indefinite boycott would require massive machinery and vast resources that we did not possess, and our past campaigns showed no indication that we were up to such an undertaking. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z His cars were probably also employed to bear massive stacks of army explosives, which were used to create firebreaks. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z The old man looked at Ignatius and then at the massive pot, the gas range, and the crumpled carts. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z What a hot and strong grasp he had! and how like quarried marble was his pale, firm, massive front at this moment! Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z He’s confused... rubbing his head... staring up at Frank, tall and thin, and then at Gimpy nearby, massive, hairy, gray-faced Gimpy with bushy eyebrows that almost hide his blue eyes. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z They occupy a massive acropolis with fifteen giant columns atop the only high ground, overlooking the pond. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Smaller than Lord Furnival’s dwelling, it was built of stout timbers, with grinding wheels of massive stone. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z At the end, we all just stopped and looked around with these massive, dumb-looking grins on our faces. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z The massive gold watch lay under his handkerchiefs in the top drawer of his bureau, and he kept it wound and set and checked its accuracy against his own watch. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z All the terror seemed to leave her in one massive yelp. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z The airport was massive, like a humongous maze, overflowing with people. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z But after a while, it gets too massive to push any longer. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Of course he wasn’t as good-looking as Papa had been; he was taller and more massive. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z It’s times like these I miss our massive backyard in Alabama and how easy it was to just go out and tumble until I’d flipped so many times, it felt like my brain had realigned. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z Then began the massive waves of poor and half-starved and ragged immigrants from Europe, arriving with everything they owned in the world in bags and sacks on their backs. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z There were several massive shire-horses for pulling the ploughs and the hay-wagons, and there was a ploughman and a cowman and a couple of gardeners and all manner of servants in the house itself. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z The cathedral’s interior was massive—it seemed, impossibly, even larger than the outside—and though damaged, a few hardy believers knelt here and there in silent prayer. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z But the pocket watch and tie pin told Kaz all he needed to know: Heavy links of laurel leaves made up the watch’s gold fob, and the pin was a massive, perfect ruby. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z She was wearing a silk shawl wrapped around her massive shoulders. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z When an extremely massive star collapses, it disappears. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z She had committed murder with an effing kitty-cat statue in a beautiful state park over a massive and scenic ravine. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z As I lift Alan to the ground, a mild vibration shudders the twists of rusting steel poking from the massive slabs. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z Caputo stood with his back to our massive fireplace and coughed into his fist. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z The royal apartments were in Maegor's Holdfast, a massive Square fortress that nestled in the heart of the Red Keep behind walls twelve feet thick and a dry moat lined with iron spikes, a castle-within-a-castle. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Every old prison I’ve seen since, from the Tower of London to Philadelphia’s massive and abandoned Eastern State Penitentiary, has inspired a similar fascination. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “A poem about massive battles and boundless love isn’t pretentious?” Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z Confederate President Jefferson Davis was on the run, the subject of his own massive manhunt. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z After a lunch of grab-whatever-you-can-from-the-fridge followed by an hour of reading a massive science encyclopedia she had dragged home from the library, Jessie needed a break. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z Finally, the same pattern of an abrupt start of food production dependent on domesticates from elsewhere, and an abrupt and massive population replacement, seems to have repeated itself in many areas in the prehistoric era. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z But I got there at last, and the Boazer who had done the shouting, a massive athlete called Wilberforce, said, 'Dahl, come here.' Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z The 25,790-foot ramparts of Nuptse defined the right wall of the Cwm, Everest’s massive Southwest Face formed the left wall, and the broad frozen thrust of the Lhotse Face loomed above its head. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z The silk settled onto a massive, powerful shape and transformed into iridescent scales. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z He was struck down by a ten-ton cement truck and died instantly of a massive skull fracture on the Norvelt road early in the morning on June 24. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z "You can't do those treatments all at once. You must learn to refuse. You should only do three at a time, especially when you have back-to-back appointments. Your arcana levels took a massive dip." The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z It rose, massive and dark, against the stars. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z From the cedar stock he found there—long, tight-grained, straight sections cut from massive, ancient trees—he could mill elegant planks of wood twenty inches or more wide and sixty feet long. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Even his hair was bigger—a massive globe of blue-black frizz so thick that his lobster-claw horns appeared to be drowning as they tried to swim their way to the surface. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z The massive pink pork monster landed with a thud, cracking the sidewalk. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z “There’s more in the frying pan, sweetums,” said Aunt Petunia, turning misty eyes on her massive son. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z “I will create massive gusts that will continue to move through the atmosphere while I’m gone.” Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z A massive table of carved stone filled the chamber, as it had for centuries. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z There were other reasons for the massive migration as well. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z I’d already walked past dozens of posters—and a massive banner hung over the front doors—celebrating a team that wasn’t even in season yet. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z More recently, books, especially paperbacks, have been printed in massive and inexpensive editions. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Dad says Pleiades had been storing their ships in a massive underground facility at the old Denver airport—they weren’t supposed to leave Earth on their first official trip for another two years. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z There was only this massive slab of it—and the other three identical ones at the southern, eastern, and western edges of the city. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z Travis had a massive container of his mom’s mac and cheese. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z When he had almost buried the stake, he pulled it from the ground with his massive hands, and repeated the ritual until he felt he had punished his body enough. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z “And you said it’s huge, right? Like massive?” Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z She had folded a load of laundry written an email, searched her massive psychology textbook for answers to the final exam questions to see if she had gotten them right. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z She made him taller, and massive, too, with crisping hair in curls like petals of wild hyacinth but all red-golden. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Dad brought two torches and his massive bunch of work keys. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z The massive shape of the giant loomed over him, obscured by layers of black smoke. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z A boy’s cap hangs on the wall; at the back looms a massive wardrobe, mothballed shirts hung inside. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z The loggers had had their pick of the virgin timber still growing along that section of the Dungeness— towering Douglas firs and massive western red cedars. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Three massive hand-hewn beams, hauled here from some ancient Breton forest and craned into place centuries ago by teams of horses, hold up the ceiling. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z Ophie was once again struck by the man’s size, his suit jacket straining against his massive belly. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z They had only to press their massive, toughened, boulderous shoulders against him to crush all life from his body. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z That evening, hoping to counter the massive protests of October 15, President Nixon spoke to the nation about the war in Vietnam. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z The seaward side of Storm's End perched upon a pale white cliff, the chalky stone sloping up steeply to half again the height of the massive curtain wall. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Those two weeks were mostly uneventful save for the massive forty-man search party that the police department somehow coaxed into hiking through the woods all around Lily and canoeing down the river. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z A hundred yards away, at the crest of the next hill, the grass and soil swirled upward like the point of a massive drill. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z I watch and watch and when the dust settles, I see that three massive pairs of eyes are boring into me. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z Twelve massive black stones were arranged on the hilltop in the same pattern, resembling the features of a human skull. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z The empty shell clattered to the floor in a massive heap. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z He was small for a giant - perhaps twenty-five feet tall, which would give him enough room to swing the massive sledgehammer in his hands. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z Ellen had the most popular television show in the country and a massive global audience. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z One wall was devoted to a massive slate board covered in chalk equations. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z She’s got a massive stack of accordion files, which means I’m in for a fun morning. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z I’m not sure what I expected to feel when we walked up to that massive building, but I thought my heart would match the occasion. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z “He’s the one Lorren was talking to, so you can go in now,” Wil said, getting to his feet and opening the door behind the massive wooden desk. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Much of the thick, leathery skin along the trunk had come loose and crumpled in a heap about the massive foot: Senor Saguaro had lost his pants. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z He cornered me behind a massive steel ship propeller, leaning close enough that the heat of his breath fanned across my cheeks. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z Chamberlain saw a glistening black chest, massive muscles. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Highlanders dismiss lowlanders as effete sago eaters, while lowlanders dismiss highlanders as primitive big-heads, referring both to their massive coiled hair and to their reputation for arrogance. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z I’m about to suggest that we spend the morning doing a massive cleanup, but Mom is putting on her coat. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z I realized that I could take the gunpowder out of all the fireworks and create one massive firework of my own. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z Passenger pigeons traveled in massive assemblies, billions strong, that rained enough excrement to force people indoors. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z The steel bands of muscle flexed along his massive arms. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z First, she took down a girl holding a massive, unwieldy rifle, then skewered the man who was supposed to be watching her flank. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z A massive desk—covered with documents, an inkpot and pen neatly placed in one corner—takes up most of the room. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z Ernest Rutherford depicted the atom as a miniature solar system, with negatively charged electrons surrounding a tiny yet massive nucleus consisting of positively charged protons and negatively charged electrons. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z As early as 5000 B.C., colossal architecture of massive, upright stones appeared. The Annotated Mona Lisa 1992-06-01T00:00:00Z The inner walls were massive and all the doorways were low. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z He got out of his car and joined the streams of men and women walking toward the massive five-sided building. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z A single bite from its massive jaw, one hard swat from its powerful paw, anything now would tip the balance and end this nightmare. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z It was a large square chamber with a high ceiling, filled with dozens of massive stone columns. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z But when she got close, Yitzchak shooed her away as if she were one of the chickens, waving his massive hands at her and saying, “Men-talk is not for young ladies.” The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z They fall into a weighty silence, both staring at the massive television screen but neither actually watching the movie. Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z Nailer glanced at Tool, but the massive man seemed unconcerned at her sudden authority. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z Since long intestines and large brains are both massive energy consumers, it’s hard to have both. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Beside one of the craters knelt a Cyclops in oversized jeans, boots, and a massive flannel shirt. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z Everyone wore colorful robes and drove around in chariots and lived in massive stone buildings with tall columns and statues of famous leaders and generals and thinkers. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z Before she could even find her balance, the brachy hooted once and then lunged forward, reaching the burning theater in three massive clomps. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z Its massive arm stretched toward the prone figures, and I felt my heart drop. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z Pro-Japan forces were trying to organize a NO NO vote by blocks, in massive resistance. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z But instead of my pod opening gently, it vibrates with a massive jolt. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z Will drew himself behind the massive bole of a cedar, and looked where she was pointing. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z They had long trailing dreadlocks, small Afros, big Afros, twists, braids, massive raucous curls and coils. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z Because all the free usage stimulated a massive growth in the network, which was valuable to all the paying customers. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z On the arena level, it looked so much more massive, like it never ended. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z “Now then, now then, now then,” said Slughorn, whose massive outline was quivering through the many shimmering vapors. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z Baruch seemed younger, as Balthamos had said he was, and was more powerfully built, his wings snow-white and massive. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Hazel shivered, thinking of the massive statue that took up most of the hold. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z Nathan rushed over to Pond’s side and wrapped his arms around Pond’s massive chest. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z My eyes scan the scenery: never-ending trees, massive boulders, fallen logs. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z We're almost there when there’s an enormous crash and something massive bursts through the wall. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z Frank told them about Leo’s plan to destroy a weakened Gaia with one massive fiery explosion. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z He could also prepare for his massive expedition. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z He pointed at a massive tree along the road. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z Computers up to that point had been the massive, expensive mainframes of the sort sitting in the white expanse of the Michigan Computer Center. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z Since the day she’d gone to get her operation, she’d felt the massive weight of the city looming over her, and had learned firsthand how much places like the Smoke threatened people like Dr. Cable. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z I went through a massive video game phase and still like to play now and then. Lawn Boy 2007-06-12T00:00:00Z The Orleans Parish courthouse is a massive structure with intimidating architecture. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z It had quickly become obvious that they wouldn’t be able to maintain over five hundred different blockades or fend off the massive influx of gunters. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z “They’ve laid so much fiber in the ground that they’ve basically commoditized themselves. They are going to get into massive price wars with everyone and it’s going to be a disaster.” The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z It was ten thirty in the morning before they finally returned to Kopenick, nursing massive hangovers. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Lyra wanted to ask all kinds of questions, but suddenly she felt shy of this massive man, with his little eyes so sharp and kindly among their folds and wrinkles. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z The wooden coffee table in her living room has a massive, cracked geode slice embedded in its center. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z Outside the prison walls, massive bombs fell on the city. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z It had a massive tree next to it, with long vines that you could use to plunge into the water. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z This entryway consisted of two massive black wooden doors, each one studded with iron bolts. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z A cheer went up among the Romans as the five cohorts melded into one massive killing machine. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z Grasping the pumpkin in one massive hand, he twisted and then fiercely uncoiled, hurling the pumpkin into the sky like a discus. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z Winterfell was encircled by two massive granite walls, with a wide moat between them. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z He swung his big face back toward her a moment later and she jumped out of the way as a massive splortch of dinosaliva-tinged river water gushed over his wounded skin. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z As flames exploded outward, the massive steel and glass structures faltered and Zafoona closed her eyes and turned away. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z It was a question that had already begun to be answered, but neither Stravinsky nor Debussy, in 1913, would have guessed just how massive the forces of change were going to be. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z Before he knew it, the two large ladies were all over him, swinging their massive handbags at his head. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z Impressed finally by the massive support of his former comrades in arms, Colonel Aureliano Buendía did not put aside the possibility of pleasing them. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z “And every single one of the guys developed a massive crush on her, including Jim; She was actually the one who gave him the nickname Anorak,’ a British slang term for an obsessive geek. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z Now, the Japanese people are understandably concerned about maintaining their traditions in the face of massive Western cultural influence. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z There was even a massive and chilly attic, though it gave Ophie such a sense of foreboding that she abandoned it completely. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z When he dreamed at night the face of his friend was always before him, massive and gentle. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z He moved with surprising delicacy for such a massive man. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z He flicked a broken bone into the fire and rose to his full height—a massive red warrior in sheepskin and drakon leather, with dried flowers and herbs in his hair. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z I looked at the massive black hound, who whimpered pitifully, still licking Daedalus’s hair. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z Some of the cargo barges were old broken sailing vessels, but others were larger, more massive. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z The land surrounding it was rockier than any other place we knew, and the path to it branched off underneath a massive fallen oak that looked somewhat like a mermaid. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z We climbed the massive wave, our boats turning nearly vertical beneath us. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z It was impossible to deny, despite all empirical evidence to the contrary, that there wasn’t a massive cavity in my chest where my emotions used to be. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z The hair on his arms stood on end as moonlight filtered through one of the temple’s massive bay windows and cast silvery light on one side of the Kuhani’s face. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z Sometimes the horses would try to rear back their heads and smash their riders with the tops of their massive skulls. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z The massive disturbances to the ionosphere would knock out communications systems everywhere, so survivors would have no idea what was happening elsewhere or where to turn. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z At the other end of the pool, a massive statue stood thirty meters tall, a globe held aloft in her left hand and a staff in her right. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z Even three massive interstellar colonization ships meant for the exodus off Earth could get lost out here. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z The gold feathers started lifting off Pet’s arms, metal flowing through the air as if it was water, a massive unfurling. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z His massive error in dealing with the Rosens had been recorded. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z Their "lessons" include eating massive amounts of chocolate and cheese curls. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Before she could answer, I heard a massive creaking noise, and a shadow blotted out the sky. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z Even at a distance of miles, it was clearly massive, but how to properly gauge its height, in light of the fact that...it didn’t stand upon the ground? Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z From Eilonwy’s description, and from the massive shadow above, he feared the girl was right. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z I was born with a massive tumor in the middle of my face and two deformed legs. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z With hands that trembled with eagerness, I unhooked the chains and drew back the massive bolts. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z When you say Durham! the wheels begin to turn, the smoke rolls in massive clouds from every stack and the sweet assuring music of busy machinery is heard. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z Before Harry could speak, there was a massive movement. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z But neither was as amazing as this massive fist of blinding white rock thrust into the sky. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Not only did William help oversee a massive expansion of Army code breaking, but he also played a key role in several high-level Allied missions. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z The members of some of these species were massive and others were dwarves. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z He brought down his massive fist, but Damasen sidestepped, impaling his javelin in the side of Tartarus’s neck. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z We walked up the massive staircase, my hand trailing along the satin-smooth rail. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z Years before, the Supreme Court had issued a massive desegregation order for our nation, demanding all public facilities be opened up to everyone, black and white. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z The massive wedge of a head swayed back and forth, back and forth. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z There’s even a mounted bull’s head, massive horns menacingly outstretched. Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z As Seabiscuit stepped onto the track, swinging his head left, then right, the fans erupted in a massive ovation, drowning out the bugler playing “Boots and Saddles.” Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Mama kept her voice low as she withdrew a rust-speckled key from her pocket to insert into the massive padlock. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z She began carting out her mama’s food, but once the boys were back, they plunked the chairs down and organized a massive game of capture the flag. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z Off to the left there was massive firing. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z The pudgy kid, who everyone now calls the lore-master, struggles to learn what he can from the massive volume the captain inflicted upon him. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z Ignatius answered defiantly and stuck out his massive pink tongue. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Then the claws retracted, and the massive creatures scuttled away from the encroaching jellyfish. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z As he drew nearer, he saw it was a massive golden weather vane, signalling to him. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z He lifted his massive reptilian foot over Percy’s head. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z Finally it drew in a deep breath, raised its massive head, and stepped casually to the side. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z There was nothing but the wide expanse of flat desert, which reached toward the edge of the horizon, where massive sandstone plateaus stood that were as faint and round as orange clouds. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z The critical mass of plutonium would not stay together long enough to create a massive atomic explosion. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Maman asks without turning around but instead ventures deeper into the forest, dodging massive roots poking out of the dark soil. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z This felt like a massive dose of ether. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z The intestine was blitzed, completely full of uncoagulated, runny blood, and at the same time the monkey had had massive blood clotting in the intestinal muscles. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The ridges above them now looked less like steps and more like rows of massive teeth. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z The government was also building a massive factory at Oak Ridge, Tennessee—a secret city with eighty thousand workers living in trailers around the plant. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z About a block away from the peak of the hill, a hum like a massive swarm of bees rose above the distant sounds of traffic. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z They did not walk out on their families voluntarily; they were taken away in handcuffs, often due to a massive federal program known as the War on Drugs. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z I go into great detail about the massive guillotine they’re going to use to behead him because I really like to paint a picture, you know. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z An enormous man with a huge head and neck, and massive shoulders, sat behind the desk. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z The Princess Andromeda blew up from both sides, a massive fireball of green flame roiling into the dark sky, consuming everything. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z The air grew hotter and damper, as if they were plummeting into the throat of a massive dragon. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z Just then he raised his head, so massive I wondered at the blood it must take to animate, and he saw me. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z Then they passed a massive red crypt decorated with human skulls on iron spikes. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z An object that he could see only in silhouette, reaching across a massive arc of space, was suspended low in the air over the house. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z The paper birds swirled upward in a massive formation overhead before alighting in a great circle on the ground. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z There was a massive sculpture of a fortune cookie outside, made from what looked like old clothes. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z It now seems reasonably clear that the high surface temperature comes about through a massive greenhouse effect. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z A few days later, I fell ill with a massive infection. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z I wanted to escape into them—especially Valium and Librium, which were little pleasure pillows that I knew would dissolve my massive stress, if only for an evening. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z At the center of the island, two massive black boulders formed the entrance to a tunnel. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z ‘Yeah. It’s by Shakespeare and starts with this massive storm out at sea. It’s right up your street.’ The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z Angry voices hissed in dismay at the massive clump of stone that had broken their progress. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z But the Fashion Minister barrels in, followed by his team of dandies and a wardrobe closet with massive carriagelike wheels. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z This tree, unlike every other one she’d seen, still had its leaves—a massive cloud of green hanging low over the grassy land and supported by a mess of tangled branches. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z The twelve-foot-wide balcony was lined with evenly spaced massive wooden doors that opened up into the ten Dewey decimal rooms. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z On the lawn is an enormous picnic table, big enough to seat sixteen, and a ways off from that, a tire swing hangs from a massive maple. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z Powder from the massive crystals coated the floor like glistening snow. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z Its motto was “Go for broke,” and it had suffered massive casualties. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z It was massive, bulkier than the spirits in the club, and its shimmering darkness seemed to churn endlessly like black lava. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z Others, weaning belches, lodged in his chest and caused massive heartburn. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Miranda, one of the moons belonging to Uranus, features a patchwork of ridges and cliffs, grooved structures called coronae, and massive canyons up to twelve times deeper than the Grand Canyon. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z The first task we were given was to clear a massive plot of land the size of a football field. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z “Clearly,” I heard Miss Volker say from where the victim’s head would be, “there can be no doubt that the main cause of death is a massive skull fracture.” Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z I pause to look up at this massive school—two blocks square and seven stories high, a place that was meant to nourish us and prepare us for adulthood. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z With her incongruously small legs and massive torso, she looked like a refrigerator on crooked wheels. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z Major de Coverley was a splendid, awe-inspiring, grave old man with a massive leonine head and an angry shock of wild white hair that raged like a blizzard around his stem, patriarchal face. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z Like the stained-glass windows in European cathedrals, the massive Olmec sculptures and bas-reliefs were meant both to dazzle and instruct. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z His death provoked a national outcry and massive sympathy marches in cities across the North. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z The beast startled some at first, raising its massive forelegs up and then slamming them down again. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z It was a single massive room the size of the chapel at church, with a vaulted ceiling that rose some sixteen feet into the air. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z The Belle-apartment doors reopen, and his dandies push in massive bell jars that hold three dress stands. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z “I’m sure he thought it a worthy trade. That pig was massive.” Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z But I had a massive hard drive stuffed with MP3s, which is why Sizwe was excited when he saw me mixing—he saw a way to corner the market. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z Pulsing blue lights lined the runway, which ran up the center of the hangar to a massive pair of armored doors at the far end. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z Now with the Olympics approaching, officials were planning to add a massive set of wooden grandstands built out over the water on the other side of the lake. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Huge windows line one wall, revealing the cheesemaking process, massive machines stirring and churning the creamy cheddar. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z The whistle sounded again, and then the train appeared around the bend through the trees and rumbled toward the station, its massive twin headlights pale in the bright November afternoon. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z She moved toward the path, wondering at the massive tree as she passed around it. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z During the twentieth century, only 5 per cent of human deaths resulted from human violence—and this in a century that saw the bloodiest wars and most massive genocides in history. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z And the constant rumors about massive secret contributions to Kwang were nothing I could see. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z For a while he contemplated the massive war helmet. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z And the massive round fruit towered over them so high that they looked like midgets from another world beside it. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z Six beady black eyes, bristly legs, and massive jaws that ended in curved, pointed fangs. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z We split a massive pile of designer tortilla chips with spinach and queso, and everything’s sort of okay for a minute. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z She died alone of a massive heart attack, while sitting on the couch, watching one of her shows. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z Then away she went, paw over paw, up the massive Abbey face. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z Sweeney pointed to the clock above the bar, held in the massive and indifferent jaws of a stuffed alligator head. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z He points to a massive American Philco in the adjacent room. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z To be sure, the Ptolemies did commission massive new temples in the ancient style, largely to help the Macedonian rulers ingratiate themselves with their native subjects. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z As I was standing at the bus stop with Renee, a massive gust whipped that sucker right off my head and down the sidewalk. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z I watched breathlessly as it came to an ancient oak tree, a hundred years old and massive as a greystone. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z He wore a general’s uniform with gold braid on his massive shoulders. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z When at last he came to the bottom of the last flight of steps, he found himself all but alone amongst the torchlit corridors inside the pyramid’s massive brick walls. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z The oldest sister, Aliya, is cross-legged on the carpeted floor, folding a massive load of laundry. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z He attracted more monsters, scattered more crowds of tourists, and led his now massive following of katoblepones through the winding streets of the old city. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z My thoughts tripped back and forth through the massive amount of life that had happened to me—to him—in the last twenty-four hours. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z When Percy and Annabeth caught up, they found themselves at the edge of another massive cliff. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z The massive mech clutched his signature golden bow in one hand and had a large spiked shield strapped to the other. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z I waited a brief moment until she swung her leg up, then I slung my travelsack over my shoulder and scrambled up the side of the massive stone. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z The massive staff sergeant Frank Volkheimer comes down the narrow wooden stairs and ducks his head beneath the beams. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z One would therefore expect a system of massive objects to settle down eventually to a stationary state, because the energy in any movement would be carried away by the emission of gravitational waves. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Harry saw his hands tighten still harder over his massive backside. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z A detached description of his physical features would have made him sound like an ugly, misshapen oaf: pockmarked face, decayed teeth, oversized eye sockets, massive nose, heavy in the hips, gargantuan hands and feet. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z Then the darkness dispersed with a massive sigh, like the last breath of a dying god. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z They passed massive boulders, the stumps of newly sawed trees, splinters of shattered ones. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z It falls upon us in a single massive deluge that only lasts for a couple of seconds, but it’s enough to drench us, to soak the ground, and to wound the fire. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z Immediately the massive weight of the bull was on her, humping her down, my father and Serrano were laughing and slapping their knees. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z There, there, baby,” she says, patting Daddy’s massive hand. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z Of course there were massive accounting problems in calculating the different state debts, not the least of the difficulties being sloppy records kept by several southern states, with Virginia topping the list for administrative disarray. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z A few seconds later, he arrives at a pair of massive wooden doors set into the cavern’s rocky wall. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z It would like a new family to run through its massive halls, children to climb on the grand staircase, mothers to chide them and fathers to play hide-and-seek through the many rooms. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z I barely have time to squeal before my skinny thighs settle on a pair of massive shoulders. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z It looked like a cross between a vampire pig and a black bear—an absolutely massive animal with thick, matted fur and teeth that extended below its mouth. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z Fifty yards into the clearing, about halfway to the hut, a massive oak tree jutted from the ground at a forty-five-degree angle. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z Directly in front of us, inside the sphere, the massive front doors of Castle Anorak had just swung open, and now a single Sixer avatar was emerging from within. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z Teresa stood to his right, leaning against the massive stone wall. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z Of course I’d long known that I was playing host to a massive collection of parasitic organisms, but I didn’t much like being reminded of it. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z The toes of his massive dancing slippers were cut away so that his snakes could protrude. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z A seventh castle he raised, most massive of all. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z As the core of a massive red giant collapses to form such a neutron star, it spins faster. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z A wrong move or sudden gesture could mean massive retaliation by the police. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Raymie closed her eyes and saw a gigantic seabird fly by: its wings were massive—huge and dark. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z It had been successful, but I was still jittery, the way you feel after a massive release of energy, my nerves on end and still working. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z And now there’s one straight chunk of hair stringing down like a massive sideburn. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z One wall was taken up by a massive hearth, a wolf’s head carved into the stone above it. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z They all ordered massive plates of eggs, pancakes, and reindeer sausage, though Frank looked a little worried about the reindeer. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z The show was gratifying to watch; Phelan was not afraid to put his massive physical presence to work. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z He absorbed its violence and brawn as it slithered past, a massive steel serpent. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z “Don’t want to drown you,” he says, pointing at our massive pile of recycling. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z A powerfully built welterweight with a Marine Corps emblem tattooed in blue on one massive bronze forearm jumped lightly to his feet. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z Barred from telling the full truth, she instead left clues in the massive catalogue of books and papers she gave to the Marshall Library. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z I had been impressed by the massive amount of smoke and gas the combination had produced, but I was confused. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z Lyndon Johnson appealed to North Vietnam, offering massive financial aid in exchange for leaving South Vietnam alone. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z When she opened her fist, she saw a massive ruby tie pin circled by golden laurel leaves. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z My eyes turn upward, expecting to see giant cracks race across the ceiling, massive chunks of stone raining down on us, but the bunker itself gives only a slight shudder. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z It made her look even more massive than she was. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z There had to be at least thirty massive sculptures of running, leaping beasts, their flanks gleaming slickly in the silvery light, jaws open, their slowly melting muzzles dripping occasionally onto the crowd below. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z A massive wave of guilt almost knocks me over as I realize Emily really does consider us friends—both Soojin and me. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z Below that, where her legs should’ve been, were two massive snake trunks, mottled bronze and green. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z It was heavy; his massive chain must have been inside it. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z Bouncing to a finish surrounded by the cheers of a massive crowd. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z Lunch turned out to be a massive affair, with a thick soup, fresh rye bread, onion rolls, bagels, cream cheese, scrambled eggs, smoked salmon, and chocolate pudding. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z “Every man Jack of us,” said the last of the men, wide and bull-like, with a massive head. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z A massive fortress-like building glared down at them from the top of the hill; torches lit either side of its huge front gate. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z He was a massive handsome man with iron-gray curly hair covering a leonine head. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z In a valley between the mountains lay a massive field of ice. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z Athena lent a hand, making him seem taller, and massive too, with crisping hair in curls like petals of wild hyacinth, but all red-golden. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Gey’s air freight shipping system worked fine for sending a few cells to colleagues here and there, but it was too expensive for shipping on a massive scale. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z An echo of thrilled caws erupts in the massive space. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z Pod handed him up his shield, a massive slab of heavy ironwood banded with steel. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z On the table under the window' lay a massive volume bound in limp black leather-surrogate, and stamped with large golden T’s. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z If you manage to push the carriage even faster, the baby becomes as massive as a car...and then a battleship...and then a planet...and then a star...and then a galaxy. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z His mustache, less massive than it was these days, was gingery-blond. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z His massive, plain, blunt presence was enough to calm them. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z The Executives led them across the rock garden onto the large central plaza, which lay fronted and flanked by the Institute’s massive stone buildings. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z The crowd “ooohs” and “ahhs” appropriately, but a few in the front gasp in surprise when the massive sign above the gates begins to sputter and spark. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z His face is a room overstuffed with massive furniture. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z Finnick goes to hammer the spile into the green bark of a massive tree with a rock, but I stop him. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z “They’re get- tin’ massive, mus’ be nearly three foot long now. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z He was armed with a massive trident and a weighted net. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z Four more bunker missiles fall over this period, all massive, all very damaging, but there’s no urgency to the attack. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z He wakes in distant quarters of the night and sees Frederick in his bedroom in Berlin, wearing his eyeglasses and necktie, freeing trapped birds from the pages of a massive book. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z At the top of the path, near the edge of the canyon, was the massive oak tree I’d seen in my dreams. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z Jake’s massive vocabulary seemed to vanish whenever he talked to Grace. The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z Because I can see people’s souls sometimes when I draw them, I know the following: Mom has a massive sunflower for a soul so big there’s hardly any room in her for organs. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z Replacements for the massive coal- and oil-burning wrecks that he and his crew worked to destroy all day long: gull-white sails, carbon-fiber hulls, and faster than anything except a maglev train. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z Instead, he was singing raucously while beating a small drum with his massive hands. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z “Hey, kid,” he called out, and waved his hammer at me as if he were Thor and about to crush my little head with one massive blow. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z Pet stepped out from a corner, still massive, still gold and streaked fur and hardblood curled horns. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z Every year Earth’s rivers carried massive volumes of eroded material–500 million tons of calcium, for instance–to the seas. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z Inside the house, everything was predictable, the high-ceilinged rooms, with heavy, sashed windows, the oak wall panelling and the oak doors, and the oak staircase, the massive furniture. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z It took up half the page, emerging from his face like a massive mountain. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z Annabeth spun as a massive dark shape hurtled down at her—a snarling, monstrous blob with spindly barbed legs and glinting eyes. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z It intercepted the cannonball midair, detonating a massive fireball. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z “There is no relation between the massive accumulation of wealth in one part of the world and abject misery in another.” Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z With its wide boulevards, beautiful green spaces, and nexus of universities, technical colleges, and massive software park, Dalian would stand out in Silicon Valley. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z In the 1930s and early 1940s, President Franklin D. Roosevelt began to roll out the New Deal—a massive public works and investment program designed to lift the nation out of a severe depression. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z The stage was massive, with vast red- and-gold curtains drawn back to reveal a magnificent make-believe forest with a rolling painted ocean at the back of the wooden deck. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z DELPHI: And—didn’t you say yourself, having someone inside Hogwarts might be a massive advantage? Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 2016-07-31T00:00:00Z A deep, low laugh rumbled through his massive chest. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z As I reached for the door, I dropped my sticks with a massive clatter. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z I watched from the raft as the beautiful deep began to swallow the massive boat of steel. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z In 2015 a Broadway musical about Alexander Hamilton, one of the “Founding Fathers,” became a massive hit. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z Hizdahr had not taken up residence there, preferring to establish his own suite of rooms deep in the heart of the Great Pyramid, where massive brick walls surrounded him on all sides. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z He waited outside in the forest while another member of the team put on a space suit and went inside and gave the monkeys massive shots of sedative, which put them to sleep forever. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z They’re bigger than us, and I set my eyes on the massive one Marv had been talking about a while back. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z On Pluto’s ring finger was a massive opal, like a chunk of polished frozen Mist. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z The park is massive, but at the far edge, she sees Daniel and Catalina. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z After the bell ending the school day sounded, they headed into the massive main building. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z How could a maze, with walls so massive and tall, be so big that dozens of kids hadn’t been able to solve it after who knew how long trying? The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z Within weeks they began organizing for a massive, all-out demonstration to be held in the fall: the Moratorium to End the War in Vietnam. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z He held a massive shield in one hand and a spear in the other. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z He slunk swiftly across the grounds to one of the small doors in the massive outer wall. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z My mom was looking at the kids in the cafeteria, but I was scanning the high school girls pouring out of the massive building. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z It was the only place fit enough after the sun flares and the risen sea levels, the massive destruction of all the towns and cities and vegetation. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z Similarly, in Louisiana, journalists reported that Louisiana police engaged in massive pretextual stops in an effort to seize cash, with the money diverted to police department ski trips and other unauthorized uses. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z This led to the dot-com stock bubble and a massive overinvestment in the fiber-optic cable needed to carry all the new digital information. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z Its port ballista fired a massive spear wreathed in Greek fire, which sailed straight through the broken dome of the Senate House and exploded inside, lighting up the building like a jack-o’-lantern. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z SCORPIUS: Albus, for obvious reasons, I’m not a massive fan of Time- Turners. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 2016-07-31T00:00:00Z Ahead of me, the drive tunneled between massive oaks, dark with shadows, but lit here and there with patches of moonlight. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z Some of the crystals were as massive as skyscrapers! Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z Uncle Bill drove off the highway, and soon they were paying a fee to enter a massive parking lot. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z A star tens of times more massive than the Sun can stably convert hydrogen to helium for only a few million years before moving briefly on to more exotic nuclear reactions. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z I glance up just in time to see the massive jaws of a great white clamp down on a sea lion. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z “Look,” Zahra says, taking a drag from her massive stainless steel thermos of coffee. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z Then he marched south, his massive Komodo legs shaking the earth. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z The grove’s massive leaves sway gently in the breeze, beckoning us to hurry inside. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z Nathan looked back and noticed that the path behind them was gone, and that above them were the dark shadows of massive creatures. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z He slapped a broad hand on the table so hard the glasses rang, and his massive shoulders shook, and he had to wipe away the tears from his eyes. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z An older black woman sat on the marble steps in the massive courthouse hallway. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Then it backed out, seemed to hesitate momentarily, and returned with a massive roar; a roar that took his ears and mind and body. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z The universe and everything in it could collapse into a massive singularity, or it could initiate another Big Bang, a new beginning to the universe. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z He threw back the glass, swallowing it all at once, and then hauled his massive body up and stood very close to Will. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z "His massive figure, commanding, self-confident manner, and magnificent bursts of fiery eloquence, won and held the attention of his audience from the moment he opened his lips." Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z The stairs creak and groan on the other side of the wall—though Freddie stays mum—and I imagine the two pairs of massive feet tromping up to lead me to my doom. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z Sitting atop one of the shop’s heavy worktables was a massive cylindrical container about four feet high and two feet across. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z “I charmed her with my good looks and impressed her with my massive textbooks.” I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z A mansion by any account, three stories and all gables and massive windows—many of them broken now—and fancy brickwork. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z Not long like a snake, it was squat like a cinder brick, its thick neck blending into a head shaped like a massive flat wedge. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z His feet hurt a lot—I suppose because they carried such a massive burden. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Viola clanged about in the kitchen nonstop for hours with a plug of snuff in her lip, bringing forth our massive dinner out of clouds of steam. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z Miss Peregrine wrestled a massive photo album down from a shelf and set it before me on the desk. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z The massive screen overhead might simulate the day and night sky, but it won’t have the crack of a lightning strike or rumble of thunder. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z There was nothing worse than being in massive pain and stuck in the only path to possible escape because you were too big to fit through the hole others had already gone through. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z He swung the trident in his massive hands and in one shock from top to bottom split that promontory, toppling into the sea the fragment where the great fool sat. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z The woman left him with a grateful nod, then fell back in with the crowd making its way across the George Washington Bridge, the massive suspension bridge connecting Manhattan to New Jersey. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z It was like he was walking on top of a massive ocean. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z All Tyrion could see was something massive rising from the river, humped and ominous. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z With a long-handled, double-edged axe, he split fence rails from massive cedar logs that washed down the Dungeness in the spring. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z They walked together toward the massive hulk of Iofiir’s palace, where the combat ground lay flat and open at the foot of the walls. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z Finally the monkey got itself jammed down in a crack behind a cage with its tail sticking out, and Sergeant Amen hit the tail with a massive dose of anesthetic. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z It was so massive, it emitted its own gravitational field. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z The brachy leaned his massive neck forward into the darkness, and then Magdalys heard a splashing and gurgling from the river. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z He graduated and went to America, then came back a short while afterwards, very furtive and very wealthy from what many said was a massive credit card fraud. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z Jefferson’s position on political parties, like his stance on slavery, seemed to straddle a rather massive contradiction. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z A few days earlier, Samira had thrown herself a massive eighteenth birthday-slash-graduation party, and someone had left behind a backpack at our house, containing a bong and a bag of weed. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z She felt her Mist disguise burn away until she was just Piper again - one girl in the midst of an army of giants, her jagged bronze blade like a toothpick compared to their massive weapons. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z It was a massive bird’s nest—a gryphon's nest—the bottom littered with old pieces of jewelry, an Imperial gold dagger, a dented centurion’s badge, and two pumpkin-sized eggs that looked like real gold. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z About a block away from the peak of the hill, a hum like a massive swarm of bees rose above the distant sounds of traffic. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z For the next three hours, pinned under the terrifying weight of massive heartache, he watched the color of the rectangle change from orange to red to purple. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z I must say that I admired the efficiency with which she whipped the material back and forth under the massive electric needle. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z A massive fish, a flounder as big as a tea-tray and as thick as your arm was brought to the table. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z They had been cut from heavy oak planks, and they spi- raled around the massive center timber like the small bones of a spine held in place by thick wooden pegs. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z The view was slightly spoiled by the massive offshore oil rigs you could see in the distance, but if you could make yourself forget about them, you'd think you were in paradise. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z His massive body shook the branches overhead as he struggled, desperate. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z Despite the fact that the bucket was sturdy wood and built to hold at least two gallons, it looked tiny as a teacup next to the draccus’ massive head. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Then he hugged them both to his massive barrel chest. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z The rhino hybrid growls, its massive muscles bulging. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z Plus, it was hard to fall asleep with my nose stuffed with massive wads of bloody tissue while breathing through my dry mouth. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z |
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