The air was now heavy with portent.

Radium itself, as known to our modern scientists, he regarded as the harmless plaything of people with time hanging heavy on their hands.

" They had just done twenty miles in slush and mire, and their hearts were heavier than their heels.

Forebodings weighed too heavy for such open expression.

My feet were like lumps of ice, as heavy as lead, and I didn't seem able to lift them from the ground.

The heart of the woman was heavy in her breast.

The Right whale, though many people make Light of it, is unquestionably the heaviest of living creatures.

Of course, if sea-water, like fresh water, were heaviest at a temperature of 39° F. and got lighter as it approached 32° F., the water of the bottom of the deep sea could not be colder than 39°.

He had not yet come to any positive decision as to how he should play the part of a justiciar, which seemed so heavy to his shoulders.

I held my tongue, even though rebelling against the scheme, because of knowing that the lad was prompted only by love, and yet my heart grew heavy within me, until I had become convinced that something of evil would follow.

Sometimes it is the dragging of something heavy over the floor, that makes me shiver to hear it,it sounds so like what people that kill other people have to do now and then.

She went up to her old bedchamber with unshed tears heavy about her eyes, and a pathetic smile quivering on her mouth.

It's just funking lifejust giving it up because the odds seem too heavy against us.

Men whose blood had been thinned by summer heat in the desert were now called upon to endure long hours of piercing cold, with their clothes wet through and water oozing out of their boots as they stood, with equipment made doubly heavy by rain, caked with mud from steel helmet to heel, and the toughened skin of old campaigners rendered sore by rain driven against it with the force of a gale.

The thick, heavy mists that the cold air encourages were rolling in chill and heavy from the river and leveling the hollow places in the land.

Tractors, those wonderfully ugly but efficient engines which triumphed over most obstacles, had got the heavies into position.

Thrackles's hand lay heavy across my mouth.

As it came nearer she saw that it was several men, walking slowly and apparently bearing something heavy between them.

The man was sparing of his words; but when he did speak there was something terrible in his voice; it was deep and heavy like the roar of a cannon.

There were great fishing days, and there was another caribou killed over the range, and Muskwa grew fatter and fatter and heavier and heavier until by the middle of September he was as large as a good-sized dog.

Bacon, who was Solicitor-General, said:'Certainly the circumstance of time is heavy unto you; it is now five years since this unfortunate man, Turner, be it upon accident or despight, gave the provocation which was the seed of your malice.'

The progress of the disembarkation was rendered somewhat difficult by a heavy sea, the heaviest during the three weeks the fleet had been stationed there, owing to a stiff blow off the coast of Jamaica.

My heart was very heavy after this conversation.

The bags were new and good, and Captain Horn believed that each of them could be made twelve or fifteen pounds heavier without attracting the attention of those who might have to lift them, for they were very heavy as it was.

The going was heavier among the trees, and yet the bay increased its pace.