Meanings of ponderous tomes in English

They wrote ponderous tomes to prove that Jan Steen was a teetotaler.

The Talmud is a voluminous work of about twenty ponderous tomes.

Doubtless, it met the fate of many other ponderous tomes; sinking quickly and profoundly.

The table was piled high with ponderous tomes.

We see in libraries ponderous tomes labeled "Burke's Speeches."

The binding is just to my taste, whatever may be the contents of some of these ponderous tomes.

Most of this knowledge was in Latin, of course, in ponderous tomes with wonderful, long titles; and the list of them is awe-inspiring.

Marsh's library, that quaint, old-world repository of ponderous tomes, is reputed to be haunted by the ghost of its founder, Primate Narcissus Marsh.

A volume containing all the words of the great Teacher would look mighty insignificant beside the ponderous tomes of the modern exponents of His teachings.

Miss Martineau had long believed these things, but Comte proved them-provedthem in six ponderous tomes-andshe set herself the task to simplify his philosophy.