Varieties of the fern sometimes relieve the massy forms of the stonecrop, with their light and delicate leafage.
John Ruskin The Poetry of Architecture (1893). Retrieved in 2019 from Project Gutenberg (https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/)
Like the architecture, the poems, too, seem hewn out of some massy region of mountain rock.
Marcius Willson, Robert Pierpont Willson Mosaics of Grecian History (1883). Retrieved in 2019 from Project Gutenberg (https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/)