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  • The human child—so much cannier at times than the stupefyingly ponderous adult.†   (source)
  • He moved ponderously across the room and settled into the armchair, filling it completely.†   (source)
  • It felt leathery, ponderous, paunchy — veined somehow.†   (source)
  • She came forward with her ponderous gait.†   (source)
  • "No, no." The old man blew his nose ponderously and wiped his eyes.†   (source)
  • He dropped to the floor of the boat with ponderous ease.†   (source)
  • Teabing nodded, heaving a ponderous sigh.†   (source)
  • The ponderous counterspectacle of things ceasing to be.†   (source)
  • We followed close behind as she made her way down the lane with a slow and ponderous stride.†   (source)
  • Grant braced himself to run, but the animal shifted its ponderous bulk and then it settled back against the tree trunk and gave a long, growling belch.†   (source)
  • I would have been eight months pregnant for the coming of Jess Clark, the ponderous focus of witty remarks during all our Monopoly games.†   (source)
  • He gave a ponderous shake of his head.†   (source)
  • "All right then," she said, in what I thought of as her Mary Poppins voice, "but just till I catch my breath," and we started down toward the crosswalk at Seventy-Ninth Street: past topiaries in baroque planters, ponderous doors laced with ironwork.†   (source)
  • Climbing above the South Summit with my regulator delivering just under two liters of oxygen per minute, I had to stop and draw three or four lungfuls of air after each ponderous step.†   (source)
  • The air was thick and ponderous with humidity.†   (source)
  • The commando ponderously lifted a weapon.†   (source)
  • It exited the shark as had the lobster, in flakes that fell ponderously to the aquarium floor, joining, and indistinguishable from, those that had come before.†   (source)
  • He sank his ponderous bulk into a chair beside Father, fixed one eye on me, the other on the ceiling, and said, "Five lumps, please."†   (source)
  • Timur's father had told them that they would have to "maneuver" through the infamously sluggish, ponderous Afghan bureaucracy—a euphemism for "find the right palms to grease."†   (source)
  • How ignominious to be strapped to this ponderous mass of paper, print and dead man's sentiment.†   (source)
  • I started the ponderous conversion between currencies, then smiled as I realized it was unnecessary.†   (source)
  • This is what he wrote about the Hegelian professor: "While the ponderous Sir Professor explains the entire mystery of life, he has in distraction forgotten his own name; that he is a man, neither more nor less, not a fantastic three-eighths of a paragraph."†   (source)
  • But she stayed anyway, next to Saeed on the naked earth that had been stripped of plants by hundreds of thousands of footsteps and rutted by the tires of ponderously heavy vehicles, feeling for the first time unwelcome.†   (source)
  • Then on heavy feet, made more ponderous by the guilt of the living viewing the dead, the adult church marched up to the coffin and back to their seats.†   (source)
  • The ponderous arrangement proved to be a refinement to my plans, for it took me away from Moody twice on the same errand, albeit briefly.†   (source)
  • Cujo came around more ponderously, his claws digging black meadow dirt, losing some ground at first, making it up quickly.†   (source)
  • Facing them, the squat outline of a statue swelled ponderously from floor to ceiling, a faint light cast across the brooding dwarf face hacked with uncharacteristic crudeness from brown granite.†   (source)
  • "Well, yes, I have," Himes opened up ponderously.†   (source)
  • But on a checkup visit, he was dismayed to find that the manager was focusing his sales effort not on Buicks but on ponderous Thomas Flyers.†   (source)
  • This was the ponderous challenge—and the incomparable excitement—of reaching a mass public in an age before television: a great roving road show that would personify the war's realities and deliver them to Americans' home precincts.†   (source)
  • A noise of rending and crashing came dully through the ponderous stone.†   (source)
  • He brooded in ponderous speculation over the cryptic message he had just received.†   (source)
  • The fire began to consume the deck in a ponderous, dreamlike way.†   (source)
  • If I were a patient, I'd ponderously explain that it was an extension of some Freudian dream sequence because it never happens but it happened to me.†   (source)
  • There was but one theater and the local preachers were unbearably ponderous.†   (source)
  • We sat there with the whole heap quivering beneath us as the engine chugged ponderously on.†   (source)
  • Max tapped his knee and watched his father's mammoth torso expanding in slow, ponderous breaths.†   (source)
  • The men of the railroad and of the mine stopped in dazed bewilderment: they found that in all the complexity of their equipment, among the drills, the motors, the derricks, the delicate gauges, the ponderous floodlights beating down into the pits and ridges of a mountain-there was no wire to mend the crane.†   (source)
  • Whenever you looked, Mitt was scaling the wide bow of that paternal back, or swinging from his shoulders, or standing on the tops of his feet so that they walked in tandem, with ponderous, doubled soles.†   (source)
  • It is, in fact, a heavy, ponderous, de facto State of the Union address, specifically designed to undercut the revelry and prepare America for years of more pain and struggle.†   (source)
  • The ponderous Dr. Ross rose and went to the witness stand.†   (source)
  • But as she lay there looking up, trying to return the stranger's quizzical sad smile, she could feel the ponderous drowsiness and lassitude persisting to her bone marrow.†   (source)
  • Just for him the ponderous elephants, the plumes, the spangles, the acrobats, the clowns, the caged lion, the band playing, the steam calliope, the whole thing!†   (source)
  • The board members sat like old Buddhas with their hands resting on ponderous potbellies; their mouths agape with disbelief or incredulity.†   (source)
  • PTAs, movie censorship, disaster relief—the Empire is ponderously unhelpful.†   (source)
  • In the total silence of the court they heard a woman's answering voice, and her ponderous footsteps slowly approaching.†   (source)
  • It was a ponderous prehistoric beasts.
  • The walls were hung with gorgeous curtains, which imparted the combination of grandeur and grace that no other species of adornment can achieve; and as they fell from the ceiling to the floor, their rich and ponderous folds, concealing all angles and straight lines, appeared to shut in the scene from infinite space.   (source)
  • Clanked into her like a ponderous iron key, turned himself in her flesh, wrenched her open.†   (source)
  • It was a ponderous tome by Grand Maester Malleon on the lineages of the great houses.†   (source)
  • When he pressed upward a ponderous weight resisted—Edgar himself, asleep on the bales.†   (source)
  • Pycelle had spoken truly; it made for ponderous reading.†   (source)
  • "That is a matter for the king to decide," Grand Maester Pycelle announced ponderously.†   (source)
  • Grand Maester Pycelle rose ponderously from the council table, his chain of office clinking.†   (source)
  • Jaime's gelding lumbered off ponderously, blowing and snorting in pain.†   (source)
  • The man paused in midstep, and his large, ponderous headswiveled toward her.†   (source)
  • Grand Maester Pycelle stroked his flowing white beard and nodded ponderously.†   (source)
  • I listened very carefully during your ponderous explanation.†   (source)
  • Storming past Maggie, Max heard the ponderous slap of heavy waves and the shrill cry of seagulls.†   (source)
  • The colonel's ponderous, farinaceous cheeks were tinted suddenly with glowing patches of enthusiasm.†   (source)
  • The footfalls sounded heavy to Bran, slow, ponderous, scraping against the stone.†   (source)
  • As I reached the ground the driver gave a thump and both great-horses moved ponderously on.†   (source)
  • For weeks we labored at the ponderous task.†   (source)
  • Ser Kevan rose with a ponderous dignity.†   (source)
  • A rumbling noise filled the hangar, a ponderous drumming of metal and wheels.†   (source)
  • It beat, a deep ponderous throb of sound, and each pulse sent out a wash of indigo light.†   (source)
  • Wyman Manderly lurched ponderously to his feet.†   (source)
  • Grand Maester Pycelle nodded ponderously.†   (source)
  • He made a ponderous charge to hack at the Dornishman's head.†   (source)
  • A trumpet blast sent the horsemen forward at a ponderous walk, splashing down into the current.†   (source)
  • The ponderous, dreadful hours of the night eventually gave way to morning, but still I had no news.†   (source)
  • Rosalind reached back to give a thump on the huge flank, and we moved ponderously forward once more.†   (source)
  • Slowly, ponderously, he rolled onto his back.†   (source)
  • The maester pushed himself ponderously to his feet, his chain of office clinking softly.†   (source)
  • Ser Wendel Manderly rose ponderously to his feet, holding his leg of lamb.†   (source)
  • Biter rode ponderously beside him on a destrier that looked ready to collapse under his weight.†   (source)
  • Janos Slynt rose hesitantly and Grand Maester Pycelle ponderously, yet they rose.†   (source)
  • He has the feeling he's quoting from a book, some obsolete, ponderous directive written in aid of European colonials running plantations of one kind or another.†   (source)
  • Accompanying the gravity of being a hunted man, Langdon was starting to feel the ponderous weight of responsibility, the prospect that he and Sophie might actually be holding an encrypted set of directions to one of the most enduring mysteries of all time.†   (source)
  • He was dressed for the workshop, knee-sprung corduroys and an old peat-brown sweater ragged and eaten with moth holes, and his receding hairline and new short-cropped hair gave him the ponderous, bald-templed look of the marble senator on the cover of Hadley's Latin book.†   (source)
  • King Billy lifted a fat sheaf of papers and paused to read from the top page: Without story or prop But my own weak mortality, I bore The load of this eternal quietude, The unchanging gloom, and th three fixed shapes Ponderous upon my senses a whole moon.†   (source)
  • It was still angular and graceless, squinty-windowed, ponderous, a dense brown like stewed tea, but ivy had grown up over the walls.†   (source)
  • Ponderous gatherings, at which weighty, substantial men met and pondered, because — everyone suspected it — there was heavy weather ahead.†   (source)
  • His maester's collar was no simple metal choker such as Luwin wore, but two dozen heavy chains wound together into a ponderous metal necklace that covered him from throat to breast.†   (source)
  • "Lady Lysa had no honorable way to deny him, even if she'd wished to," Lord Hunter intoned ponderously.†   (source)
  • The High Septon himself stood behind him, a squat man, grey with age and ponderously fat, wearing long white robes and an immense crown of spun gold and crystal that wreathed his head with rainbows whenever he moved.†   (source)
  • Illyrio gave a ponderous half bow.†   (source)
  • "Lord Tywin was a great man, an extraordinary man," he declared ponderously after he had kissed both her cheeks.†   (source)
  • I'm nearly afraid to leave this tiny office, for fear of what else I might see, what else might ensue, like any boy who is sure his very observation and presence makes the world hitch and turn; but in my case those turns are real and have come too ponderously, bearing ever heavily on my minor realm.†   (source)
  • In the same room is a cement pool filled with thick-looking greenish water in which large turtles sit and blink or clamber ponderously up onto the rocks provided for them, hissing if we get too close.†   (source)
  • Despite the fact that she was airborne, there was something uncannily dense and ponderous about the demon's form and the slow-moving tendrils that protruded here and there like the hungry, searching arms of an anemone.†   (source)
  • Cooper glanced over his shoulder at a ponderous black shape that now loomed ahead, gradually emerging from the fog.†   (source)
  • Every schoolboy knew that dinosaurs had outgrown themselves, had become too large and ponderous to be viable.†   (source)
  • Garzhvog shook his ponderous head.†   (source)
  • The streets wind in and around, the houses are large, ponderous, Georgian, set off with weighty shrubbery.†   (source)
  • He nodded once, as if his mind was made up—an impressive gesture considering the ponderous size of his head—then said, "Farewell, Firesword.†   (source)
  • Max threw the device against the wall and began pacing the room, feeling utterly helpless as he watched David's chest rise in slow, ponderous breaths.†   (source)
  • As the echoes of Connington's footsteps faded away, Grand Maester Pycelle gave a ponderous shake of his head.†   (source)
  • Cordelia's father sits at the head of the table, with his craggy eyebrows, his wolfish look, and bends upon me the full force of his ponderous, ironic, terrifying charm.†   (source)
  • Yossarian was alone in a ponderous, primeval lull in which everything green looked black and everything else was imbued with the color of pus.†   (source)
  • Because it is Sunday, and because this is evidently a routine after-church Sunday event for the Smeaths, I have the idea that the train tracks and the lethargic, ponderous trains have something to do with God.†   (source)
  • You should do the same, set" She wondered how long her white knight had been polishing his ponderous gallantry.†   (source)
  • He sat mutely in a ponderous, stultifying melancholy, waiting expectantly for Corporal Whitcomb to walk back in.†   (source)
  • The giant's pace was a ponderous one, despite the length and girth of those legs, and he was forever stopping to knock snow off low-hanging limbs with his maul.†   (source)
  • Somewhere behind us a gun fired again, and we speeded up still more…… For a while or more we hurtled on in a ponderous, earthshaking gallop.†   (source)
  • Lord Wyman was looking down at Rhaegar as if he were a roach in need of a hard heel …. yet then, abruptly, he gave a ponderous nod that set his chins to wobbling.†   (source)
  • With speed now more important than concealment we kept on the first southward track that we found and urged the horses to a ponderous trot.†   (source)
  • He had a nurse and a son-in law, and he was prone to long, ponderous silences when he had not been drinking too much.†   (source)
  • The man pauses; his oversized head moves ponderously left, like the head of some shortsighted, dull-witted monster.†   (source)
  • She gave a ponderous shrug.†   (source)
  • All in all I made much better time than Robert, who was traveling with a ponderous great wheelhouse to keep his queen in comfort.†   (source)
  • During the daylight hours she would try to read, but the books that they had given her were deadly dull: ponderous old histories and geographies, annotated maps, a dry-as-dust study of the laws of Dome, The Seven-Pointed Star and Lives of , the High Septons, a huge tome about dragons that somehow made them about as interesting as newts.†   (source)
  • Colonel Cathcart would never forget the first evening General Dreedle took notice of the chaplain in the officers' club, lifting his ruddy, sweltering, intoxicated face to stare ponderously through the yellow pall of cigarette smoke at the chaplain lurking near the wall by himself.†   (source)
  • The remaining wing revolved as ponderously as a grinding cement mixer as the plane plummeted nose downward in a straight line at accelerating speed until it struck the water, which foamed open at the impact like a white water lily on the dark-blue sea, and washed back in a geyser of apple-green bubbles when the plane sank.†   (source)
  • Bronn would have whipped the oxen into motion the moment Stannis's flagship passed under the Red Keep; the chain was ponderous heavy, and the great winches turned but slowly, creaking and rumbling.†   (source)
  • But the great cog Balerion was a song of a different key; a ponderous broad-beamed sow of a ship with immense holds and huge sails, but helpless in a calm.†   (source)
  • Jon caught a glimpse of mammoths moving ponderously through the half-light, and just as quickly lost them again.†   (source)
  • The boy's toys included the ponderous Godsgrace, he saw, the old slow Prince Aemon, the Lady of Silk and her sister Lady's Shame, Wildwind, Kingslander, White Hart, Lance, Seaflower.†   (source)
  • The best berths had been taken by the largest vessels: Stannis's flagship Fury rocking between Lord Steffon and Stag of the Sea, Lord Velaryon's silver-hulled Pride of Driftmark and her three sisters, Lord Celtigar's ornate Red Claw, the ponderous Swordfish with her long iron prow.†   (source)
  • He had smiled with vast and weary scorn, then had raised himself, slow and ponderous as an elephant waking from a dream of swamps, and had shuffled out of the room.†   (source)
  • With what joy he would have mocked and skewered, on the genius of his mimicry, this ponderous charlatan.†   (source)
  • He was assassinated by disgusted customers after only fifteen years, which isn't long enough to louse up anything as ponderous as a multi-universe empire.†   (source)
  • Mrs. Brown, who relented the day before the trip by canceling her classes and declaring it a state law that the principal of the school must accompany every school-sponsored trip, stood ponderously on the bank herding the children together as if she were shepherding a flock of recalcitrant sheep.†   (source)
  • Heavy-minded, ponderously reasonable, he muses on the fitness of unreasonable things, and drops like old wood clothespins to a basket the pros and cons of giving a child a life devoid of vision.†   (source)
  • There was a huge and troubling vacuum created by this question which I could not possibly fill with an immediate answer, so freighted with ponderous meaning did I realize that the answer now had to be, and I gave a sort of foolish gulp and was silent for a long moment, aware of the blood flowing in rapid arrhythmic pulse at my temples, and of the desolate tomblike quietude of that shabby little room.†   (source)
  • Humorless, forbidding in his starched wing collar, his oval unrimmed professorial spectacles and black mohair suit odorous of cigar smoke, he lectured her in German with the same ponderous intensity she remembered from her childhood; he seemed to be warning her about something—was he concerned about her sickness?†   (source)
  • …and tried to scratch away for an hour or so, almost but not quite oblivious of the stirrings, the comings and goings of the other occupants of the house—Morris Fink muttering malevolently to himself as he swept the front porch, Yetta Zimmerman clumping down from her quarters on the third floor to give the place her morning once-over, the whalelike Moishe Muskatblit departing in a ponderous rush for his yeshiva, improbably whistling "The Donkey Serenade" in harmonious bell-like notes.†   (source)
  • No, it was later, I realized, during one moment of what seemed now their unending conflict, that his voice had come down through the ceiling, booming, with the ponderous, measured cadence of booted footfalls, and cried out in a tone that might have been deemed a parody of existential anguish had it not possessed the resonances of complete, unfeigned terror: "Don't …. you …. see ….†   (source)
  • Sophie eventually saw that only a few years before, during Poland's Fascist resurgence, her father might have gained some converts; now with the Wehrmacht edging ponderously eastward, these Teutonic screams for Gdansk, the Germans provoking incidents along all the borders, how could it be other than a sublime foolishness to ask whether National Socialism had the answer to anything except Polish destruction?†   (source)
  • The upstairs hall seemed to shake as Mammy's ponderous weight came toward the door.†   (source)
  • Lined with shadows their weight seemed more ponderous, as if colour, tilted, had run to one side.†   (source)
  • Not like that," said the tench in ponderous tones.†   (source)
  • Within Gant's shop there was the ponderous tread of marble feet.†   (source)
  • There he sat, with his thick chest interposed, ponderous.†   (source)
  • The Cosmo-Slotnick Building rose ponderously over the street, like a big white bromide.†   (source)
  • The admirals, heavy with responsibility, paced their quarter-decks with ponderous tread.†   (source)
  • George Graves ascended the hill with a slow ponderous rhythm, staring darkly at the ground.†   (source)
  • His embattled Swiss bounded ponderously from crag to crag, invoking it in windy speeches.†   (source)
  • She gave a bright pleasant nod to Jannadeau, who swung his huge scowling head ponderously around and muttered at her.†   (source)
  • Suddenly, as if the movement of his hand had released it, the load of her accumulated impressions of him tilted up, and down poured in a ponderous avalanche all she felt about him.†   (source)
  • His voice was deliberate, infrequent, ponderous; the voice of a man who demanded that he be listened to not so much with attention but in silence.†   (source)
  • He smiled it away; he had his own tailor-made Havanas in a case big enough for a pistol, and he was so ponderously huge it didn't even bulge in his pocket.†   (source)
  • We are about to explode in the flanks of the city like a shell in the side of some ponderous, maternal, majestic animal.†   (source)
  • When structures began to rise not in tier on ponderous tier of masonry, but as arrows of steel shooting upward without weight or limit, Henry Cameron was among the first to understand this new miracle and to give it form.†   (source)
  • The mother said ponderously, 'I have reason to believe… Senora Jiminez told me … I think if your father will give me a little money, I shall be able to get a relic' 'Does it cost money?'†   (source)
  • The whole superstructure stumbled, recovered itself, stumbled again, and sank down ponderously on its left side.†   (source)
  • Yes, that brief, before Henry had had time to know what he had seen, but now slowing: now would come the instant for which Bon had builded: —a wall, unscalable, a gate ponderously locked, the sober and thoughtful country youth just waiting, looking, not yet asking why? or what? the gate of solid beams in place of the lacelike iron grilling and they passing on, Bon knocking at a small adjacent doorway from which a swarthy man resembling a creature out of an old woodcut of the French…†   (source)
  • Lord Marchmain showed no inclination to move, so presently we drew up chairs—the little, heraldic chairs, for everything else in the hall was ponderous—and sat round him.†   (source)
  • Their once rounded bodies were angular and bony now, sharp small bones like the bones of birds, except for their ponderous bellies.†   (source)
  • When we had been a quarter of an hour at the table, he joined us, coming ponderously into the room in the bottle-green velvet smoking suit which he kept at Brideshead and always wore when he was there.†   (source)
  • He turned into the road at that slow and ponderous gallop, the two of them, man and beast, leaning a little stiffly forward as though in some juggernautish simulation of terrific speed though the actual speed itself was absent, as if in that cold and implacable and undeviating conviction of both omnipotence and clairvoyance of which they both partook known destination and speed were not necessary.†   (source)
  • Scarlett wondered how that ponderous body which shook the floors could move with such savage stealth when its owner wished to eavesdrop.†   (source)
  • There was an air about the ponderous inanities spoken, which the actors had absorbed like an infection; it was in their smirking faces, in the slyness of their voices; in their untidy gestures.†   (source)
  • " Drawing strongly, her feet planted wide apart, she hauled open the ponderous firedoor, and as I went out she said, "Augie, you and me will never get together again, will we?"†   (source)
  • They're off!" cried the Wart, holding his breath with excitement Slowly and majestically, the ponderous horses lumbered into a walk.†   (source)
  • He was young, about my own age of twenty-two, but ponderous already, a big, important, impatient face, irritable, smoky with thought that went out far.†   (source)
  • Because our Mammy is the most beautiful woman in the high-ridged, extensive, ponderous, pleasantly-turning world.†   (source)
  • He already knew most of them, the giant uncles and heavy-pelted aunts in their Siberian furs who came up from their Cadillacs and Packards: Uncle Charlie Magnus who owned the coal yards; Uncle Artie who owned a big mattress factory; Uncle Robby who was a commission merchant in South Water Street, ponderous, white, and caracul-haired--like Stiva Lausch--and with a hearing-aid plugged in.†   (source)
  • A slight paralysis had slowed her tongue and thickened her speech a little, so that she spoke deliberately, with a ponderous enunciation of each word.†   (source)
  • Then, as he took an eager stride forward, she skipped away like a ponderous maenad soliciting Bacchic pursuit.†   (source)
  • It should perhaps be mentioned that Merlyn was a ponderous, deep-beamed fish of about five pounds, leather coloured, with small scales, adipose in his fins, rather slimy, and having a bright marigold eye—a respectable figure.†   (source)
  • At the present time, he lived with his sister and his aged mother, whose ponderous infirmity of limb had not impaired her appetite, in a South Carolina town.†   (source)
  • Smiling, she acknowledged the ponderous salute of Big Jeff White, the giant half-owner of the Whitstone hotel, whose fortunes had begun when he had refused to return to his old comrade, Dickson Reese, the embezzling cashier, ninety thousand dollars of entrusted loot.†   (source)
  • Frau Von Zeck settled her powerful chins upon the coarse shelving of her Wagnerian breasts and, her ponderous gaze already dreaming on remote philanthropies, was charioted smoothly away from the devoted tradesman.†   (source)
  • …ground pasty sausages, and red beef; and of brown sugar melted with slivered bitter chocolate; and of crushed mint leaves, and of a wet lilac bush; of magnolia beneath the heavy moon, of dogwood and laurel; of an old caked pipe and Bourbon rye, aged in kegs of charred oak; the sharp smell of tobacco; of carbolic and nitric acids; the coarse true smell of a dog; of old imprisoned books; and the cool fernsmell near springs; of vanilla in cake-dough; and of cloven ponderous cheeses.†   (source)
  • …window prying with delicate monocled intentness into the entrails of a watch, the reeking mossiness of Gant's fantastical brick shack, the great interior dustiness of the main room in front, sagging with gravestones—small polished slabs from Georgia, blunt ugly masses of Vermont granite, modest monuments with an urn, a cherub figure, or a couchant lamb, ponderous fly-specked angels from Carrara in Italy which he bought at great cost, and never sold—they were the joy of his heart.†   (source)
  • "And I tell you something else," said McGuire, ponderously wheeling around on Coker, "if one of them's got to be cut open, see who gets the job.†   (source)
  • Rocking ponderously in the dark on Gant's veranda, the old woman would say: "You are get-ting a good boy, Hel-en.†   (source)
  • Accordingly he trotted heavily up the hill, turned ponderously into the alley ruts, and advanced heavily until, feeling the great circle of his right forefoot obstructed by some foreign particle, he looked down and slowly removed his hoof from what had recently been the face of a little boy.†   (source)
  • Like a monument lay the bright brown, ponderous coffin.†   (source)
  • The sewing-machine made a resounding clatter in the room; it was of a ponderous, by-gone make.†   (source)
  • The centuries did, indeed, ponderously overhang a young wife who passed her time here.†   (source)
  • Wilson, ponderously diplomatic, reached over and slapped him on the back.†   (source)
  • "I know you have it in for me," Johnson continued with his unalterable and ponderous slowness.†   (source)
  • She was almost ponderous, and pink, with a tendency to a double chin.†   (source)
  • The ponderous clouds swallowed more and more of the eastern domes.†   (source)
  • Abe cut in, solemn and ponderous, beating it all down with an overtone of earth-bound determination.†   (source)
  • A strong, ponderous cast of thought seemed to emanate from his features.†   (source)
  • His manners were good, but rather ponderously so.†   (source)
  • And Lady Bruton went ponderously, majestically, up to her room, lay, one arm extended, on the sofa.†   (source)
  • "Take a stick" answered Alec, with ponderous reverence, "one about the length of a broom-handle.†   (source)
  • The ponderous walls sheered away from the river.†   (source)
  • If in Paul's company he felt ponderous and protective, with McKelvey he felt slight and adoring.†   (source)
  • Going," with ponderous jocularity, "going to blow you all to a swell feed at the Grand—"†   (source)
  • Gulden rose, slow, heavy, ponderous, to tower over his heap of gold.†   (source)
  • The benches were shelves of ponderous mahogany; the news-stand a marble kiosk with a brass grill.†   (source)
  • The little man ceased as words lurched ponderously from the big man's chest.†   (source)
  • Olson snapped his note-book shut and looked at them very ponderously.†   (source)
  • Babbitt crossed the floor, slowly, ponderously, seeming a little old.†   (source)
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