He itched, he burned, he was racked by chills, and the sticky, gummy clotted mass in his throat seemed to swell with his panic.

"Gaia" is a raised fist, but this clotted mass of energy also brings to mind Michelangelo's "Slaves" as well as the preening torso of a body builder.

The figure, smothered beneath the clotted mass of children, heaved a sigh.

In the sunlight there a clotted mass of flies festered on something brownish, sticky.

The moon had shifted in the sky, glaring through a clotted mass of clouds like a candled egg.

It seemed to take minutes, so swollen with sweat and blood was his felt undercap and the tangled clotted mass of his hair.

His shirt had once been a natty blue, but it was now a clotted mass of dark red blood.

Mostly, however, their activity consists of moving about slowly in clotted masses when not positioned motionlessly, apparently narcotized, in front of boxes.

Contrary to old movies, the un-derstory of the Amazon rain forest was not a clotted mass of clinging vines and overgrown vegetation.

He must have brushed his wound accidentally; the clotted mass had cracked, and blood was once more seeping slowly down his neck.