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large or of great weight; or slow and unwieldy — especially because of size
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boring — especially because of length
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boring — especially because of length
- Then Sherlock Holmes pulled down from the shelf one of the ponderous commonplace books in which he placed his cuttings.Adventure IX — The Adventure of the Engineer's Thumb (82% in)
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