Meanings of ponderous weight in English

Through the breach fell the ponderous weight of a river left unsupported.

He seemed to feel an actual ponderous weight on his young shoulders.

He bent as if he were being crushed under a ponderous weight.

There was still a ponderous weight of water in the boat.

When he pressed upward a ponderous weight resisted-Edgarhimself, asleep on the bales.

Also that India, Turkey, and Arabia are now groaning under the ponderous weight of this vanity.

I heard the heavy, ponderous weight let fall.

Weight came behind him, the ponderous weight of time and memory; of disapproval, as heavy as mountains.

Waste was not something he approved of, a fact evidenced by his enormous frame and ponderous weight.

The worrying teeth had been firmly fixed, the ponderous weight pressed all the breath from Henson's distressed lungs.

Under Hagrid's ponderous weight, James felt like he was being driven into the ground like a tent peg.

A supple twist-theFrench trick-andDorn's powerful lunge, with all his ponderous weight, drove his bayonet through the enemy's lungs.

Her cold, clear 'No!' fell before my tongue was loosed or my heart freed from the ponderous weight crushing it.

They are not very heavy as they lie in the palm, yet these little grains are a ponderous weight that rules man's world.

Such is their ponderous weight that they cannot rise from the horizon; but, obeying an impulse from higher currents, their dense consistency slowly yields.

With all their ponderous weight they made me feel myself: all the time, all the centuries made me feel myself this moment a hundred-fold.