massy
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Indeed, Stonehenge’s massy blocks seem irresistible to copyists: a website, Clonehenge, charts replicas made of everything from cars and lava-lamps to vegetables and gingerbread.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 8, 2019
Those macroscopic rules, he said, stemmed from the systematic combination of microscopic bodies: solid, massy and hard, as Isaac Newton had put it in a phrase Dalton was fond of quoting.
From Nature ● Aug. 30, 2016
Quite as unusual from the British point of view was Guest Dawes's handling of the Vintners' massy, golden wassail cup.
From Time Magazine Archive
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And above the shapely, bespectacled head of Pope Pius XI towered the holy apostolic tiara of pure, massy gold.
From Time Magazine Archive
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If one massy Eye regarded me coldly from behind my back, it was my own.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party" by M.T. Anderson
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The massier paused and looked up, one finger between the leaves of the ledger.
From The King in Yellow by Chambers, Robert W. (Robert William)
The easygoing suburban blandness that Nick at Nite dines out on was owing to the fact that network TV was once the massiest mass medium ever invented.
From Time Magazine Archive
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It stands apart from trace of human habitation; yet hath it pulpit, reading-desk, and trim front of massiest marble, as if Robinson Crusoe had reared it to soothe himself with old church-going images.
From The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 6 Letters 1821-1842 by Lamb, Mary