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Meanings of great weight in English

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Usage of great weight in English
1
An observation of yours about its great weight suggested the latter idea.
Complete Stories and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe
2
Market watchers have been giving great weight to sales figures these days.
Reuters
3
There was a sense of great weight wheeling on an unseen pivot.
The waste lands
4
A great weight seemed to slip off her shoulders at the thought.
Wizard and glass
5
Morgan felt that a great weight had been lifted from his shoulders.
The Fountains of Paradise
6
His shoulders sagged as if there were a great weight on them.
Summer of Night
7
The roof began to strain and creak ominously beneath the great weight.
The Forest Runners: A Story of the Great War Trail in Early Kent...
8
He suffered; he felt a great weight of grief at his heart.
The Devil's Pool
9
Then the craft seemed to be pressed down by some great weight.
Under the Ocean to the South Pole; Or, the Strange Cruise of the...
10
Next he drags forth a military cloak of great weight and dimensions.
Justice in the By-Ways, a Tale of Life
11
He felt that he was relieved of a great weight of anxiety.
Jean-Christophe in Paris: The Market-Place, Antoinette, the Hous...
12
He drew a long breath as if relieved of a great weight.
File No. 113
13
What Madame Desvarennes had just said relieved Serge of a great weight.
Serge Panine — Volume 02
14
He was a man of great weight of character and intellectual expansion.
Beacon Lights of History, Volume 10: European Leaders
15
And Cesaire Houlbreque returned home, his heart relieved of a great weight.
Original Short Stories — Volume 09
16
He felt that a great weight had suddenly been lifted from him.
Of Human Bondage
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United States of America
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