If any eyes in Revelstone had been able to penetrate the unbroken mass of clouds which frowned now constantly over the Land, they would have seen that this night was the dark of the moon on the middle night of spring.

Scientists now believe that 200 million years ago, all of the land on Earth was connected in a single, unbroken mass surrounded by water - a supercontinent.

They reached the lip of the valley and continued on, without pausing, through the forests that stretched ahead in an unbroken mass of great trunks and heavy limbs, tangled and woven together as if to shut out the mountain sky.

Monolithic, without interval or tension, it was an unbroken mass of arrogance and power.

From the Isle of Torbay to the mainland the sea was an almost unbroken mass of foaming white, big white-capped rollers marching eastwards across the darkened firth, long creamy lines of spume torn from the wave-tops veining the troughs between.

The original northern half presents a plain, unbroken vertical mass of purple-brown brick, which is contoured to create a gentle curve at the base of the building and an outward flare to form an austere parapet at the top.

Nothing makes a more effective display than great, unbroken masses.

The jungle beyond was an unbroken mass of dark green vegetation stretching to the horizon.

Tremper Mountain rises gently over this Catskill village, its slopes an unbroken mass of evergreens and white birch.