8 examples of over-weight in sentences

Finding that the purchaser of the grocery was a female, he went with the urchin before her, and expressed a hope that she would intercede with the poor boy's master, in order to prevent his being over-weighted in future.

Unhappily, however, the hearse was over-weighted, and they had not reached the cemetery before the spring broke, and the bottle with it.

I was afraid he was drunk, and that this tumble would add vexation to his spirits; but he was only tired and over-weighted, carrying a big knapsack and a gun, a number of articles girdled around his waist, along with too much avoirdupois.

[according to one historian, it was the Duke of Bourbon, Anne de Beaujeu's brother-in-law]; "if they are not kept down by over-weighting them, they will soon become insolent; for my part, I consider this tax the surest curb for holding them in."

In the teachings of both is an over-weight of sternness and superstition, little "plain human kindness," almost nothing that points the way to decent, happy, healthy living.

Over-weighted, and underpaid, This human tool of exploiting Trade, Though tougher than leather, tenser than steel.

Even to do this he was forced to stand erect in the stern-sheets: if he sat, the awkward pole would over-weight his strength completely.

As to literary art, his writing was ponderous and over-weighted with far-fetched allusion.

8 examples of  over-weight  in sentences