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Ponderous watch-chain of imitation gold. [5]

More example sentences with the word ponderous in them

He went forward with a cheerful, if ponderous bonhomie. [9]
The man to whom he dealt a blow with this ponderous implement would forget to rise. [10]
Right from the water's edge rose long lines of stately palaces of marble; gondolas were gliding swiftly hither and thither and disappearing suddenly through unsuspected gates and alleys; ponderous stone bridges threw their shadows athwart the glittering waves. [5]
The year 1709 was made ponderous and illustrious in English biography by his birth. [6]
But Wrangle, as Venters led him, snorted defiance or disgust rather than fear, and, like a hobbled horse on the jump, lifted his ponderous iron-shod fore hoofs and crashed down over the first rough step. [13]
It is a thousand feet long and two hundred wide, all of the most symmetrical, and at the same time the most ponderous masonry. [5]
She walked round the ring, a hand on the head of each: one growling, the other purring against her, with a ponderous kind of affection. [11]
But soft you, the fair Ophelia: Ope not thy ponderous and marble jaws, But get thee to a nunnery--go! [5]
On the centre table, in addition to a ponderous Bible, was one of those old-fashioned carafes of red glass tipped with blue surmounted by a tumbler of blue tipped with red. [9]
A ponderous tow-headed Swiss woman, who put on many fine-lady airs, but was evidently more used to washing linen than wearing it, sat in a corner seat and put her legs across into the opposite one, propping them intermediately with her up-ended valise. [5]
Here was Opportunity suddenly upon him, like a huge, curving, ponderous wave. [9]
On a high, steep hill, toward the sea, is a gray ruin of ponderous blocks of marble, wherein, tradition says, St. Paul was imprisoned eighteen centuries ago. [5]
These are life-size statues of old-time emperors, electors, and similar grandees, clad in mail and bearing ponderous swords. [5]
It was a Spanish saddle, with ponderous 'tapidaros', and furnished with the ungainly sole-leather covering with the unspellable name. [5]
Who forged in roaring flames the ponderous stone, And shaped the moulded metal to his need? [6]
I borrowed the ponderous pistols and snapped them. [5]
With the greatest pleasure,--he said, and proceeded to wheel the ponderous dome, and then to adjust the instrument, I think to the one in Andromeda, or that in Cygnus, but I should not know one of them from the other. [6]
In the movement of the ponderous car, some honest folk must be crushed by the wicked wheels. [11]
If only the man had understood how to govern his life as well as he managed his ponderous tool! [10]
The eyes of Maitresse Aimable were fixed on her now, and unconsciously the ponderous good-wife felt in that warehouse she called her pocket for her rosary. [11]
But these little instances are trifles indeed, contrasted with the ponderous and dismal German system of piling jumbled compounds together. [5]
One's hepar, or, in vulgar language, liver,--a ponderous organ, weighing some three or four pounds,--goes up and down like the dasher of a churn in the midst of the other vital arrangements, at every step of a trotting horse. [6]
The judge jested in a ponderous judicial way about the thing, but did not move him. [5]
He always let his ponderous syllables fall with an easy unconsciousness that left them wholly without offensiveness. [5]
He slightly shook his ponderous head, whose long, gray hair was parted in the middle, and then honestly admitted, in his deep tones, that the Missa Graecorum seemed to him too majestic and gloomy for this purpose. [10]
At the apex he turned abruptly into a ragged vent that split the ponderous wall clear to the top, showing a narrow streak of blue sky. [13]
Her ponderous visitor had made a discovery which had yet been made by no other human being. [11]
He knew now for the first time that Angele and her father were in England, and he looked Lempriere suspiciously in the eyes; but the swaggering Seigneur met his look frankly, and bowed with ponderous and genial gravity. [11]
Importuned by the Cure and her mother to marry, she had threatened, if they worried her further, to wed fat Duclosse, the mealman, who had courted her in a ponderous way for at least three years. [11]
His visor was closed; he bore a huge buckler and a ponderous lance; his scimiter was of a Damascus blade, and his richly ornamented dagger was wrought by an artificer of Fez. [4]
The ponderous stone Bridge of Sighs crosses it at the second story--a bridge that is a covered tunnel --you can not be seen when you walk in it. [5]
Astounded at this assault, and dismayed at the havoc of their pipes, these ponderous warriors gave way, and like a drove of frightened elephants broke through the ranks of their own army. [4]
There are ponderous archways down there, also, over which the destroying "plough" of prophecy passed harmless. [5]
And between them and that sunset was a vast rock stretching out from a ponderous shore--a colossal stone lion, resting Sphinxlike, keeping its faith with the ages. [11]
Now a fat and ponderous avocat rose up and was about to speak, but the Bailly, with a peevish gesture, waved him down, and he settled heavily into place again. [11]
When they dig alongside of them, they find ranges of ponderous masonry that are as perfect in every detail as they were the day those old Cyclopian giants finished them. [5]
Before her rose a bulge of stone, nicked with little cut steps, and above that a corner of yellow wall, and overhanging that a vast, ponderous cliff. [13]

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