Palpation revealed a firm, irregular mass about the size of a golf ball in the breast near the underarm.
And they thought, too, of the Tower of Babel, particularly Bruegel's version of it, an irregular mass of stone and humanity reaching chaotically heavenwards, like some termite's mound.
Louis XIV's Grand Parterre, the vast orderly gardens that are said to be the largest in Europe, provides the perfect vantage point for looking back at the long and irregular mass of the chateau's linked buildings.
He did claim to have witnessed an irregular mass transfer of staff from another security building that was blown up in late December, the first of the alleged al-Qaida attacks on the capital.
Eggs laid in the autumn hatch the following spring, and the newly emerged spiderlings spin an irregular mass of silk in which they cluster in a ball for several days.
When such kernels are heated to about 400° F (about 200° C), the moisture in the starch turns into steam and builds up pressure until the kernel explodes inside out into a white fluffy, irregular mass, about 20 to 40 times the original size.
At first, the authorities wanted to build the city in the geometric center of the irregular mass of Brazil, but when they sat down around a map and found that particular point, they realized at once that it was too near the swamps of the Amazon-basin country, too far from the main population centers, and too tough a proposition altogether, even for the most intrepid builders.
A 3-cm irregular mass was detected by chest X-ray without any symptoms.
MRI may reveal a circumscribed to irregular mass with type II or type III enhancement kinetics.
b Magnified cranio-caudal view also shows an irregular mass associated to microcalcifications.
There was associated architectural distortion and irregular mass in four cases.
