Use heavy in a sentence
Sentences starting with heavy
- Heavy soles tramped upon the pavement, and amid the voices that now mingled with those she had formerly heard, she fancied she distinguished Maria's and Barbara's. [10]
- Heavy feet pounded on the platform of the blockhouse. [9]
- Heavy sea all night, and from 4 A.M. very wet, the sea breaking over us in frequent sluices, and soaking everything aft, particularly. [5]
- Heavy clouds gathered in the north, and wreaths of mist, like a hot vapor-bath, swayed over the crisply-foaming wavelets that curled the lustreless waters of the Mareotis Lake. [10]
- Heavy clouds had gathered in the sky, the light had deepened to amethyst, the valley was still, swooning with expectancy, louder and louder the thunder rolled from behind the distant hills, and presently a veil descended to hide them from our view. [9]
- Heavy clouds bore down from the north, darkening the clear sky of Alexandria. [10]
- Heavy as lead, and flexible as India-rubber, usually about forty inches long and tapering gradually from an inch in diameter to a point, it administers a blow which leaves its mark for time. [5]
- Heavy night dews alone refreshed the earth. [2]
Sentences ending with heavy
- She could sue you for cruelty and desertion, and the damages would be heavy. [11]
- The great sin we both committed has been visited on me alone, but the punishment is a hundred--a thousand times too heavy! [10]
- But her kiss was on her lips only, for her heart was heavy. [4]
- Still, her heart was heavy. [10]
- It was a very hot night, and my musket was very heavy. [5]
- The fool had travelled more swiftly than Jersey justice, whose feet are heavy. [11]
- Your hosses is too heavy. [4]
- We hadn't anything to do, and time hung heavy. [5]
- The commandant said the punishment would be "heavy;" when asked "how heavy? [5]
- He had killed the brother upon the same day that he had dispossessed the favourite of office; and the debt was heavy. [11]
Short sentences using heavy
- A heavy, unclipped yellow zecchin! [10]
- A heavy misfortune threatens me. [10]
- Misery was heavy on her. [11]
- The rain seems less heavy. [2]
- My heart is heavy. [10]
- Her heart was heavy. [10]
- Squally, cloudy, a heavy sea.... [5]
- It was a heavy handicap. [5]
- How heavy her head was! [11]
- It's heavy, lads--solid books. [2]
Sentences containing heavy two or more times
- Not far away was a stone, too heavy to carry but perhaps not too heavy to roll! [11]
- The circle of the heavy eyebrows ended at the wide nostrils; the mouth was a crescent, but bowed downwards; the heavy shoulders were rounded. [9]
- Her heart was so heavy, so unutterably heavy. [10]
- He could hear now the heavy breathing of the Sheikh of the Dosah, who, to strengthen himself for his ride, had taken a heavy dose of hashish. [11]
- Other men maybe kind and good if they like; I must be stern, or I shall fall into the hands of those who hate me--hate me because I have been just, and have visited heavy sins with heavy chastisements. [10]
- And the sorrow in those eyes, the sorrow of a heavy cross borne meekly,--how heavy none will ever know. [9]
- The carved oaken ceiling, lofty though it was, had the effect of pressing downward, the heavy furniture matched the heavy walls, and even the silent, quick-moving servants had a watchful air. [9]
More example sentences with the word heavy in them
- Yet I tell you that, heavy as your losses may seem, Spargapises, Tomyris and fifty thousand Massagetae can never outweigh the spirit of one king of Persia, least of all of a Cyrus. [10]
- The storm was yet as heavy as it had been yestereve; howbeit, though Bayard sank into the snow so deep that I swept it with the hem of my kirtle, yet the ride to the forest-lodge meseemed was as short as though I had flown. [10]
- Alas, for long years he had dug and carried heavy loads, with chains on his feet, beneath a broiling sun. [10]
- In America this would have been a heavy leathern strap; but, all over the continent it is nothing but a piece of rope the size of your little finger--clothes-line is what it is. [5]
- And Jethro's burden would be heavy enough. [9]
- Finding the familiar, worn arm of the chair, he seated himself with a heavy sigh. [11]
- She wore heavy woollen rider's stockings, half length, and these were pulled up over the ends of her short trousers. [13]
- Barbara had witnessed with very different feelings from Dona Magdalena and her brother how the former regarded every false step of Don John, and especially that of his expedition to England, as a heavy misfortune, and as such bewailed it. [10]
- A heavy thud with the knocker rang through the silent street, and after a few short questions from within and equally curt replies from without, a small door was opened in the great gate. [10]
- Delilah returned presently, with the heavy quarto in her arms. [6]
- Philip was oppressed with the heavy air; the sweltering city lay as in a swoon. [5]
- Then I laughed with my cousin; and when I was once more alone I marvelled at the mercy of a benevolent Providence, by whose ruling a small joy makes us to forget our heavy griefs, though it were but for a moment. [10]
- A picture flooded with light, standing forth in radiant relief against the darkness of the heavy, majestic forms surrounding it in a wide circle. [10]
- Great maples, heavy with leaves, stood out against the soft blue of the sky, and the sunlight poured over everything, bathing the stone walls, the thatches of the farmhouses, extracting from the copses of stunted pine a pungent, reviving perfume. [9]
- He hurried on with his head bent, as though under a heavy burthen, and clasped his hand to his forehead with a gesture of despair. [10]
- Hunger was not with him, nor composure, nor speech, and when he twisted in frequent unquiet movements the heavy guns that he had not removed knocked against the table-legs. [13]
- When she entered with her heavy step, treading on her heels, the gentlemen and Mademoiselle Bourienne rose and the little princess, indicating her to the gentlemen, said: "Voila Marie! [2]
- Miriam had talked with her brothers and shared the heavy anxieties that oppressed them. [10]
- The wind, blowing with heavy, steady blast into his face, sickened him with enduring, sweet odor, and filled his ears with a hollow, rushing roar. [13]
- I can say with conscious truth that there is not a man on earth who would sacrifice more than I would to relieve us from this heavy reproach in any practicable way. [7]
- If Barine goes with Archibius, her time will scarcely hang heavy on his estates. [10]
- He inquired also with a merry countenance after the piece of ordnance that Smith had promised to send him, and Smith, with equal jocularity, replied that he had offered the men four demi-culverins, which they found too heavy to carry. [4]
- It was therefore with a heavy heart that he came to say good-by to Margaret before his return. [4]
- He has smitten with a heavy hand this day. [5]
- The streets are wisely made narrow and the houses heavy and thick and stony, in order that the people may be cool in this roasting climate. [5]
- With the shifting wind and the passing clouds the scene was in perpetual change; now the American Fall was creamy white, and the mist below dark, and again the heavy mass was gray and sullen, and the mist like silver spray. [4]
- A drunken soldier, who soon reeled back into the tavern which he had but just left, distinguished himself as ringleader, and was the first to pick up a heavy stone to fling at the huge brass-plated temple gates. [10]
- Hereupon the Sultan, who at all times lacked moneys, notwithstanding the heavy tribute he levied on all merchandise, commanded that Herdegen and the Bohemian should be led away again and then he asked this overweening ransom. [10]
- There was a whiteness growing round the eyes, and eating up the warmth of the cheek; his admirably smooth brow was contracted into heavy wrinkles, and a foot shifted uneasily on the floor with a scraping sole. [11]
- If you wear white clothes you are clean, and your cleaning bill gets so heavy that you have to take care. [5]
- In a little while the heavy door opened, and a portly, rubicund man came out with a smile on his face. [9]
- Was it worth while living, only to grow older and older, and, coming, heavy with sleep, to the Homestead of the Ages, enter a door that only opened inwards, and be swallowed up in the twilight? [11]
- The yoke to which the horses were harnessed broke from the pole, and the heavy, four-wheeled carriage fell over the precipice without obstruction. [10]
- With a swiftness which no one could have looked for from her heavy and bulky figure, Martina hastily returned to her husband, and even at the door exclaimed: "It is all right, all has gone well! [10]
- The railroads of which I have the honour to be president pay a heavy tag in this and other States. [9]
- No one knows whether Uncle Jim could hear the cries from the torture- chamber, but, after standing for a time mumbling to himself, he wrapped himself in a heavy coat, tied a muffler about his face, and went out. [11]
- He always knew what everybody thought--that he would never do anything but play cricket till he got too heavy to run, and then would sink into a slothful, fat, and useless middle and old age; that his life would be a failure. [11]
- Upstairs, the bedrooms were quite as unusual, the plumbing of the new pattern, heavy and imposing. [9]
- His silent reflections were here interrupted by the loud sounding of trumpets, battle-cries, and, immediately after, the fall of some heavy body, followed by repeated acclamations, noisy outcries, and the applause of those about him. [10]
- Without delay Melissa went on till she had reached the heavy curtain which, as she already knew, shut off Caesar's inner apartments. [10]
- But as they went on he felt that she hung heavy on his arm and could only lift her little feet with the greatest difficulty. [10]
- But a heavy weight has fallen on my spirits, my good friend, and the sadness that gathers over me, will yield to neither hope nor reason. [12]
- Even in bright weather Janet felt a sense of oppression here; on dark, misty mornings the stern, huge battlements of the mills lining the farther bank were menacing indeed, bristling with projections, towers, and chimneys, flanked by heavy walls. [9]
- The burden of wealth is a heavy one to bear. [5]
- On his thin, weak legs were heavy chains which hampered his irresolute movements. [2]
- Under this pressure We thinned the line on the upper Potomac, until yesterday it was broken with heavy loss to us, and General Banks put in great peril, out of which he is not yet extricated, and may be actually captured. [7]
- This granite couch we covered with the dry and springy moss, which we stripped off in heavy fleeces a foot thick from the bowlders. [4]
- I groped my way with a heavy heart. [5]
- Likewise the hall waxed hotter and hotter, and the air right heavy to breathe. [10]
- Since the doctor was too much the macaroni to ride to hounds and to shoot ducks, time began to hang exceeding heavy on his hands. [9]
- Upon the table was the usual service, the heavy, much nicked stone ware, the row of plated and rusty castors, the sugar bowls with the zinc tea-spoons sticking up in them, the piles of yellow biscuits, the discouraged-looking plates of butter. [5]
- The real thing was the soul within, the longing, loving woman whose heart was heavy and unsatisfied. [4]
- The unmentioned fact was that Jack had taken a little flier in Oshkosh, and a hint from Henderson one evening at the Union, when the venture looked squally, had let him out of a heavy loss into a small profit, and Jack felt grateful. [4]
- Besides, the atmosphere was sultry, and the scorching sun struggled with the thunderclouds gathering in heavy masses at the north. [10]
- The heavy board was still in his arms. [11]
- But he, too, was soon avenged: the old shipwright hewed down his foe with his heavy axe. [10]
- But perhaps it was something quite different, for the images that passed before her heavy eyes began to mingle confusedly, to repeat themselves, and be surrounded by a ring of rainbow colors. [10]
- Already the darkness was so heavy that one could not see far; these people and the old turrets, being partly in deep shadow and partly in the red glow from the great torch-baskets overhead, made a good deal of a picture. [5]
- A diamond stud was seen to flash from his bosom; and as he seated himself and drew off his gloves a heavy seal ring was displayed upon his white left hand. [5]
- A heavy sea was running, the gale was blowing hard from the north-east, and under the close-hauled sail the Belle Suzanne was lying over dangerously. [11]
- Such a crust was on the snow as would bear a heavy man; and the pasture hillocks were like glazed cakes in the window of a baker's shop. [9]
- The pavement, here, was made of heavy blocks of stone. [5]
- When the fire was lighted, the effect of the bright light in the cavern and the heavy shadows in the room was Rembrandtish. [4]
- The preliminary speaking was in progress, but Stephen neither heard nor saw until he felt the heavy hand of his companion on his knee. [9]
- As though Creation was in league against him, a heavy storm broke about two o'clock, and he went to bed cursed by torturing thoughts. [11]
- Ferrol's heavy walking-stick was in his right hand. [11]
- Around her neck was hung a heavy rope of pearls. [9]
- Though the body was held erect, yet the head was thrust slightly forward, and the heavy eyebrows were like a pent-house. [11]
- The September sunlight was heavy, tinged with gold.... [9]
- His heart, too, was heavy, for he wished the Queen the best fortune, not only for her own sake, but because with her and her successful resistance to the greed of Rome was connected the liberty of Alexandria. [10]
- Her own heart was heavy, and compassion for herself and her own fate again had the mastery. [10]
- Now the air was heavy with the hush of suspense and expectancy. [5]
- His own heart was heavy enough, but he knew his companion's warm devotion to the Queen; so, passing his arm around his shoulder, he entreated him to maintain that peace of soul and mind which he had so often admired. [10]
- Suddenly the shade was dense, the sunlight white and glaring, the odour of lilacs heavy in the air, spring in all its fulness had come,--spring and Nancy. [9]
- A huge campfire was blazing brightly in the midst of the snow, lighting up the branches of trees heavy with hoarfrost. [2]
- Adjoining the studio was a smaller apartment, separated from the former room by a corridor, that could be closed, and by a heavy curtain. [10]
- That night a warm heavy rain came on, and in the morning every stream and river was swollen to twice its size. [11]
- As the day waned, a heavy cloud hid the sun, and so let down the light that the waters were a dark purple. [4]
- With its massive walls and heavy, red-tiled roof that sloped steeply to many points, it seemed firmly planted for ages to come. [9]
- She felt a violent shock, the pitcher flew out of her hand and was shattered into a thousand fragments, and she sank to the ground under the weight of a warm, rough, heavy mass. [10]
- A man of very uncouth and rough appearance was standing over them, and two of his companions were looking on, from a long heavy boat which had come close to the bank while they were sleeping. [12]
- Wolf's gift, the velvet robe with the marten border, would have been too heavy and oppressive for singing, and, besides, was not yet finished. [10]
- It was in vain that I argued I had no direct hand in the concealing of him; I felt my responsibility quite as heavy upon me. [9]
- Had Sophonisba's heart uttered the "yes," or had she made a heavy sacrifice for him and his safety? [10]
- The codling told us that a Rebel spy had been caught trying its fords a little while ago, and was now at Camp Curtin with a heavy ball chained to his leg,--a popular story, but a lie, Dr. Wilson said. [6]
- He had covered up the bust of Liberty so closely, that not an outline betrayed itself through the heavy folds of drapery in which it was wrapped. [6]
- And they drew up as in line of battle in the Place d'Armes,--dragoons, fusileros de montanas, light and heavy infantry. [9]
- Then he took up a pair of heavy dumb-bells, and swung them for a few minutes; then two great "Indian clubs," with which he enacted all sorts of impossible-looking feats. [6]
- His heart felt unspeakably heavy and sad, and it seemed almost like a deliverance when, just before midnight, the bell in the Tower of Pancratius raised its evilboding voice. [10]
- Dyck rode the unpaved streets on his horse with its high demipicque Spanish saddle, with its silver stirrups and heavy bit, and made his way towards Charlotte Bedford's lodgings. [11]
- His breathing was unnaturally heavy, Jen thought, but, no suspicion of foul play came to her mind yet. [11]
- His appearance was unexceptionable, but his heavy jaw was set in a manner which should have warned Mr. Cooke not to trifle with him. [9]
- Here she found Uarda bound hand and foot, and Kaschta lying on the ground in a heavy drunken slumber. [10]
- Malfalconnet handed him two heavy rolls of gold for the expenses of the journey, and enjoined it upon him to be ready to set out early the following morning. [10]
- The wolf paused, turned its heavy forehead toward the dogs awkwardly, like a man suffering from the quinsy, and, still slightly swaying from side to side, gave a couple of leaps and with a swish of its tail disappeared into the skirt of the wood. [2]
- He did not turn, but a heavy stone caught him high in the shoulders, and he fell on his face and lay clutching the epaulettes in his outstretched hands. [11]
- Before I could turn and seek the door, there came a really terrific shock; the ground seemed to roll under me in waves, interrupted by a violent joggling up and down, and there was a heavy grinding noise as of brick houses rubbing together. [5]
- The call of tubas and bugles rang without ceasing through the great building, to the frequent accompaniment of the most horrible sound of all in this hideous spectacle--the heavy fall of a dead man dropping from above into the gulf. [10]
- If, however, he tried to keep a vow of silence in the chair of execution, he paid a heavy price; for Berry had his own methods of punishment. [11]
- And it magically transformed for me (as I stood, momentarily alone, in the doorway where I had first beheld Maude) the accustomed scene, and charged with undivined significance the blue shadows under the heavy foliage of the maples. [9]
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