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  • He hesitates for a moment, then says, "Taking that baby was a massive screwup, I know—but it ended okay for us, right?†   (source)
  • His gaze shifted from the massive bulldozer to the bird burrow, then back again.†   (source)
  • He was a massive man, built like a bison, and he punched like a heavyweight.†   (source)
  • A dead rooster was hanging from one of his massive, gloved hands.†   (source)
  • In an unobstructed sky the clouds seem more massive, sometimes grandly reflecting the earth's curvature on their concave undersides.†   (source)
  • An enormous man with a huge head and neck, and massive shoulders, sat behind the desk.†   (source)
  • Finally it tilted its massive head, raised its trunk, and roared into the empty landscape.†   (source)
  • The long trunk of his massive body bulged with muscles, and his skin, of the deepest ebony, was partially scarred upon his face and neck, as if by fire.†   (source)
  • A massive, full-grown dog had just leapt into his outstretched arms.†   (source)
  • Wang gazed up at the massive pendulum overhead.†   (source)
  • She was under massive pressure, and I guess I wasn't listening."†   (source)
  • Her massive body struck the water.†   (source)
  • Mom had a massive blind spot in the way that she perceived the world.†   (source)
  • A massive explosion rings out, shaking the ground beneath them.†   (source)
  • Like the ceiling of a massive room.†   (source)
  • A massive and highly publicized manhunt for the perpetrators ensued.†   (source)
  • A massive mental meltdown.†   (source)
  • A massive paw landed on its shoulders.†   (source)
  • "Emile," the old woman continued, "built the most wonderful place, a massive pier using timber and steel he already owned.†   (source)
  • Turning in terror, she saw the massive monk.†   (source)
  • She skirted the edge of a massive cliff that overlooked a huge, black ocean.†   (source)
  • We rounded a corner and walked up the massive stairs to the second floor.†   (source)
  • An older black woman sat on the marble steps in the massive courthouse hallway.†   (source)
  • "Every man Jack of us," said the last of the men, wide and bull-like, with a massive head.†   (source)
  • Unless there is some massive breakthrough in stem cell research, Will is looking at another decade in that chair.†   (source)
  • Finally it drew in a deep breath, raised its massive head, and stepped casually to the side.†   (source)
  • 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.†   (source)
  • 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.†   (source)
  • Massive and ugly.†   (source)
  • "It would have meant gentrification and massive displacement of blacks," he said, "and I was determined to prevent that.†   (source)
  • Massive internal injuries.†   (source)
  • Her tongue, her lips were beginning to feel cold and numb, as though she had been given a massive dose of novocaine at the dentist's.†   (source)
  • I was facing a massive, fire-breathing monster and its mother.†   (source)
  • Her massive head turned on the muscular neck, looking in all directions.†   (source)
  • He handed out massive bribes to the Nazis in command of Auschwitz, all the while arguing that the women were "experts,"†   (source)
  • "A poem about massive battles and boundless love isn't pretentious?"†   (source)
  • The first task we were given was to clear a massive plot of land the size of a football field.†   (source)
  • The dark and massive truck, lumbering into the night, and the woman in the red dress—a headless woman with a stunning figure, but with no arms—held around her hips by a child attached to a chain, or a dwarf.†   (source)
  • A massive shadow loomed over him.†   (source)
  • An aneurysm can burst, causing a massive stroke and death.†   (source)
  • His massive head shines.†   (source)
  • Not many people died in the 1st Wave, the massive electromagnetic pulse that ripped through the atmosphere at precisely eleven A.M. on the tenth day.†   (source)
  • She appears to be massively overworked.†   (source)
  • The school had been largely rebuilt with a massive bequest from an oil family some years before in a peculiar style of Puritan grandeur, as though Versailles had been modified for the needs of a Sunday school.†   (source)
  • My mom was just twelve, and she could barely wrap her arms around the massive board.†   (source)
  • Not massive and empty at all, but headlong.†   (source)
  • The boar lowers its head, hunching its massive neck and shoulders and swaying uneasily back and forth, making up its mind.†   (source)
  • Massive, that means large and heavy.†   (source)
  • There was an oil lamp in all the four huts on Okonkwo's compound, and each hut seen from the others looked like a soft eye of yellow half-light set in the solid massiveness of night.†   (source)
  • Its massive front door, through which two spirit-danes could have easily passed side by side, was locked.†   (source)
  • They weren't designed for massive overland journeys.†   (source)
  • Rhambos has to jump back, stumbling on his massive feet, buying me a few more seconds.†   (source)
  • The redbrick house sat behind massive Doric columns.†   (source)
  • University High School included grades seven through twelve, so when school started in the fall, it was much more impressive and massive than anything either Sam or I had experienced in grade school.†   (source)
  • That pig was massive.†   (source)
  • Only they'll be massive."†   (source)
  • She listens to something about a heart attack, that it had been massive, that all attempts to revive him had failed.†   (source)
  • The Caribbean in those years was little more than a massive slave colony.†   (source)
  • He gave a massive shrug.†   (source)
  • Massive.†   (source)
  • Massive hair included.†   (source)
  • "Of course," she said, backing away toward the massive doors.†   (source)
  • Tom Weylin was tall himself, but too lean to be as impressive as his massive slave.†   (source)
  • They gathered into a mob on the Bowling Green around the massive statue of King George Ill.†   (source)
  • Yitzchak's massive hands made surprisingly dainty circles in the air.†   (source)
  • Three seconds later the game was done, the rat, cat, or chicken caught half across the areaway, gripped in gentling paws while a four-inch hollow steel needle plunged down from the proboscis of the Hound to inject massive jolts of morphine or procaine.†   (source)
  • "Now we're talking about a massive, massive scale."†   (source)
  • The two missiles loomed massively on the screens as they thundered toward the ship.†   (source)
  • I pause and peer out over the massive length of it.†   (source)
  • And yet somehow this massive, jam-packed church ceremony was springing up around me like a flash mob.†   (source)
  • Then he smiled at the massive creature, and then, slowly, he smiled at Mr. Poe.†   (source)
  • The dog has got its jaws around my calf, and I turn and that's when I see him, the regulator with the massive red face, eyes glittering, smiling—oh, God, he's smiling, he actually enjoys this—club raised, ready to swing.†   (source)
  • A massive rapid hammering filled the barn.†   (source)
  • There's a MASSIVE SMASH.†   (source)
  • Massive.†   (source)
  • Her side felt hot and massive and swollen.†   (source)
  • I witnessed the buildings' collapse and the massive cloud of dust and debris that rose in their place.†   (source)
  • She rolled her eyes and dug her car keys out of her massive purse.†   (source)
  • That was like having blood drawn on a massive scale—the suction, the sense of tissue collapsing and touching itself in a way it shouldn't, the nausea as all that was inside was pulled out.†   (source)
  • A few days later, I fell ill with a massive infection.†   (source)
  • They were inside a massive volcanic crater.†   (source)
  • We'd been hit by a massive IED.†   (source)
  • He intended to return to the city with a cargo of bananas, and shook his stick fiercely at the Congolese women who tried to clamber onto his massively loaded truck for a ride.†   (source)
  • Her massive dorsal fin towered above us like a mountain peak.†   (source)
  • They sat stiffly on a leather sofa, facing a massive desk.†   (source)
  • A violent shake that reverberates throughout the entirety of its massive body.†   (source)
  • -was having a massive heart attack.†   (source)
  • The steel bands of muscle flexed along his massive arms.†   (source)
  • He was just massive everywhere.†   (source)
  • Like me, he was a man who knew a massive mistake had just been made.†   (source)
  • A massive thesaurus sits beside a dictionary that's missing its hardcover spine.†   (source)
  • He says the best jobs start with a massive sledgehammer and a massive Dumpster.†   (source)
  • Confederate President Jefferson Davis was on the run, the subject of his own massive manhunt.†   (source)
  • They occupy a massive acropolis with fifteen giant columns atop the only high ground, overlooking the pond.†   (source)
  • But it's the paralysis after the recent, massive stroke that commands the boy's attention.†   (source)
  • "He did this for the company?" she said, nodding at the massive red box.†   (source)
  • For some reason, I look at the massive man and find myself saying, "I'm sorry.†   (source)
  • Behind us massive gates clanged shut.†   (source)
  • I had been impressed by the massive amount of smoke and gas the combination had produced, but I was confused.†   (source)
  • Even high-tech weapons systems cannot defeat organized small-arms fire on a massive scale.†   (source)
  • He was indeed having a massive heart attack.†   (source)
  • Flames had pierced one side wall, and the glare of the fire lighted the massive limbs and trunk of the vigorous old elm that had probably been planted the year the house was built, a hundred years ago at least.†   (source)
  • The funerals for Indio and Santos were massive.†   (source)
  • His striped black-and-gray necktie spilled over his massive chest like a roller coaster track.†   (source)
  • The massive darkness.†   (source)
  • In its place there now stood a massive chair, upholstered in red and with designs carved thickly into its legs and arms.†   (source)
  • It said: Noted entomologist Shri Benaan John Ipe, son of late Rev. E. John Ipe of Ayemenem (popularly known as Punnyan Kunju), suffered a massive heart attack and passed away at the Kottayam General Hospital last night.†   (source)
  • The skeletal tiger's massive right front paw stepped into the green light.†   (source)
  • Alaric inclined his massive head to her.†   (source)
  • There was a massive response to this offer.†   (source)
  • The next hours saw a massive escalation in response to Missy's disappearance.†   (source)
  • It was black, scaled, massive.†   (source)
  • The massive pipe organ looks like a Disney-inspired explosion of sound, with six thousand flutes of Norwegian pine and Douglas fir teetering over the stage.†   (source)
  • The U-Haul's massive cavern is only half full.†   (source)
  • They had massive, gnarled trunks and thick limbs covered with a canopy of green leaves.†   (source)
  • Communications men hurried into the room with their equipment, began setting up near the massive fireplace.†   (source)
  • Doctor Mark Rogers, Director of Pediatric Intensive Care at Hopkins, coordinated the massive undertaking.†   (source)
  • It was not like pistons and wheels and gears all moving at once, massive and coordinated.†   (source)
  • Now there were also several massive hospital bills.†   (source)
  • Jenny vacuumed like a fiend, determined to get up the bucketsful of Marley fur that had been falling out in massive clumps for the past couple of years, insinuating itself into every crevice and fold.†   (source)
  • Sophie tried the massive door.†   (source)
  • 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.†   (source)
  • THE FOLLOWING WEEK it appeared that the government's massive show of force was succeeding.†   (source)
  • The massive building in the back was actually the Kaburenjo Theater—where the geisha of Gion perform Dances of the Old Capital every spring.†   (source)
  • It twisted itself into something massive and black and sinuous that rose over Cal as he stood his ground, fighting to hold back his dog, who strained and barked like a mad thing.†   (source)
  • Using my shoulders, I tried to shake him, but the massive body did not move.†   (source)
  • This government has the most massive popular support of any in the world.†   (source)
  • Well, the fact that Nilsson lugged four massive boxes over here.†   (source)
  • Pro-Japan forces were trying to organize a NO NO vote by blocks, in massive resistance.†   (source)
  • It's really a stage, and arcing above it are massive metal plates that curl in different directions, like an exploded aluminum can.†   (source)
  • It was massive, majestic.†   (source)
  • Several police cars sped past, followed by a huge, strange-looking truck fitted with massive mechanical arms.†   (source)
  • Occasionally, a single mourner, dreaming of some vanished relationship, stood alone in adoration or revery before a massive memorial—but they mainly evinced, moving restlessly here and there, the democratic gaiety.†   (source)
  • Inside it sounded like a massive hailstorm.†   (source)
  • The air was dank and musty—like the smell of wet blankets—and the massive stone walls were slimy to the touch.†   (source)
  • All four are massive.†   (source)
  • "It's a massive overreaction."†   (source)
  • Spire vultures are massive birds with five-inch talons and wingspans that clear twenty feet.†   (source)
  • That was a massive exposure.†   (source)
  • A massive loom sat in the far corner.†   (source)
  • I jumped and made a stupid little squee sound—then I felt like a total retard when I saw that the orange ball of fur was not a flying boogieman or whatever, but a massively big cat.†   (source)
  • Even massive holes.†   (source)
  • A low line of red still burned behind the massive bulk of Big Unaka, and the solemn purple mountains raised their peaks against it in a jagged line.†   (source)
  • 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.†   (source)
  • When they pulled up before the massive doors of the old prison on Castelar it was past midnight.†   (source)
  • Two weeks later, I found myself at the head of our massive conference table with all of Red Stevens' various relatives gathered around.†   (source)
  • In other cases, the evidence is massive.†   (source)
  • Impressed finally by the massive support of his former comrades in arms, Colonel Aureliano Buendia did not put aside the possibility of pleasing them.†   (source)
  • She used her massive bulk to intimidate, but her girth was less daunting than her wit.†   (source)
  • There were no windows in the outside walls, which were three or four feet thick, built of massive stones that ten men together couldn't have shifted.†   (source)
  • It had to be to accommodate the massive, barrel-shaped steel vessel.†   (source)
  • A massive fireplace commands the center of one wall.†   (source)
  • Just as Galileo and Newton explain in their theories of free fall, the least massive and most massive riders fall to the earth with the same rate of acceleration.†   (source)
  • The filtering system was massive.†   (source)
  • Over the course of the day, there was massive swelling.†   (source)
  • But now it was much grander, with a massive extension.†   (source)
  • We just had a massive feast.†   (source)
  • He marveled at the massive concrete on-ramps leading up to it.†   (source)
  • His eyes hold massive hope.†   (source)
  • And yet a second, massive, "specialized city" within that Paradise.†   (source)
  • A massive burden.†   (source)
  • The cracks between the massive stones were filled with tiny crumpled papers.†   (source)
  • Massive amounts of puke I can handle, but I can't do blood.†   (source)
  • Robbie put his hand on his shoulder and then a massive fight broke out.†   (source)
  • Charys had returned to the campfires with two bodies slung across his massive back.†   (source)
  • I ran around the pond alongside a massive marble colonnade.†   (source)
  • Over the long, low row of pointed roofs were the massive shapes of oak trees in the dark, great swaying forms of myriad sounds under the lowhung stars.†   (source)
  • When almost all the national industries were gradually shut down and businesses were beginning to go bankrupt, defeated by the massive importation of consumer goods, they said that Brazilian stoves, Taiwanese cloth, and Japanese motorcycles were superior to anything that had ever been manufactured in the country.†   (source)
  • A deep, low laugh rumbled through his massive chest.†   (source)
  • She flounced off, massive cream puff dress and all.†   (source)
  • A large lion was carved onto each of two massive stairway posts.†   (source)
  • To say I was confused would have been a massive understatement.†   (source)
  • The massive brown structure rose into the dusty sky and held the cross of Christ for all to see.†   (source)
  • Massive bleeding, ghostly pallor ….†   (source)
  • Though I knew it was foolish, I somehow thought she'd come see me, she'd offer some explanation—or, better yet, a massive apology.†   (source)
  • Soon they were a massive black cloud well behind him.†   (source)
  • Reb Saunders sat behind a massive, black wood, glass-topped desk, wearing a black caftan and a tall, round, black skullcap.†   (source)
  • Jake said as he backed into a massive leather chair.†   (source)
  • As the massive pot keeled over, steel magma at a temperature of more than 2,700 degrees poured out uncontrollably.†   (source)
  • Troop carriers are the most massive of Radchaai ships, sixteen decks stacked one on top of the other.†   (source)
  • 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.†   (source)
  • They were massive.†   (source)
  • Early on October 12, in an unexpected morning fog, a massive armada got under way on the East River.†   (source)
  • There was a massive gray barn, and a smokehouse, and off in the distance, a string of shacks.†   (source)
  • A massive explosion took place on the right.†   (source)
  • He lifted them then slapped them down and shook his massive head.†   (source)
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