Notwithstanding my want of rest on the previous night, the absurd heaviness of the building, and the fact that the sermonwhich occupied a full hourwas all read, I listened with almost breathless attention, and was sorry when he had done.

He was already dreaded for his prowess in argument, his dictatorial manners and vivid flashes of wit and humour, the more effective from the habitual gloom and apparent heaviness of the discourser.

His patches of blues and reds in the frescoes of Monte Oliveto are oppressively distinct; his use of dull brown for the shading of flesh imparts a disagreeable heaviness to his best modelled forms; nor did he often attain in his oil pictures to that grave harmony we admire in his "Last Supper" at Cortona.

He felt an extreme heaviness in his stomach and through his body.

In two days, without transition, a torrid heat, an atmosphere of frightful heaviness, succeeded the damp cold of foggy days and the streaming of the rains.

A weary, impatient heaviness took hold of her; she begged him to make for land as soon as possible and return with her to the castle.

Since then the national spirit, hampered though it is by the traditions of party government and a legacy of intellectual and social heaviness, has been in uneasy and ineffectual revolt against deadness, against stupidity and slackness, against waste and hypocrisy in every department of life.

All the time, during those nights which Dick Sand passed entirely at the helm, he occasionally felt an irresistible heaviness over him.

The charm of these bindings lies in the fact that they have none of the massive heaviness of so many productions of this kind.

I can imagine her hints, increasing in strength as she beat against the obtuse heaviness of Rust's intellect.

"That secret heaviness of heart which unthinking men are subject to."Id.

Doña Pepa had died, and Labarta, working off the tearful heaviness of his low spirits, bade her farewell in a long canticle.

But, whether because he was of a kindlier stuff than the common sort of fashionables, or was too young to be quite spoiled, he took the thing that had occurred with unexpected heaviness; and, reaching his inn, hastened to his room to escape alike the curiosity that dogged him and the sympathy that, for a fine gentleman, is never far to seek.

The grandiloquent feudalism of the scheme appealed so strongly to the aristocratic Lords Proprietors that in spite of their usual acumen in politics they were blinded to its conflicts with their charter and to its utter top-heaviness.

A weary, impatient heaviness took hold of her; she begged him to make for land as soon as possible and return with her to the castle.