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Meanings of ponderous mass in inglês

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Usage of ponderous mass in inglês
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Some leviathan of former ages had used this ponderous mass as a jaw-bone.
Twice-Told Tales
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The fall was in flood and not so lightly would its ponderous mass be swayed.
The Yosemite
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With all their force, to draw the ponderous mass from Greece;
The Works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volume...
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Then he called for help, and men with cantpoles laboriously hove the ponderous mass back to the road.
The Girl from Keller's
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Its ponderous mass, blackened stone, and high dome, made it look, not like a temple, but a tomb.
The Last Man
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The gloom upon them deepens; and they soon present to our view a ponderous mass of almost level surface.
A Journey into the Interior of the Earth
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At last the claws relaxed from their hold, and it fell down a ponderous mass, terrible still in death.
The Travels and Adventures of Monsieur Violet in California, Son...
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But it was soon evident that the scientific current was still working beneath this ponderous mass of theological authority.
History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom
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The shoulder of the pile acts as the sole supporter of the ponderous mass of the hammer-block, cylinder, and guide-box.
James Nasmyth, Engineer: An Autobiography
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Already the ponderous mass quivered in his powerful grasp, when his daughter, with a piercing shriek, threw herself upon his arm.
The Truce of God / A Tale of the Eleventh Century
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The ponderous mass of rock had closed, probably for ever, for the only brain which knew its secret was crushed to powder beneath its weight.
King Solomon's Mines
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Between precipices echoed the crash of ice sliding loose and splintering as it fell in ponderous masses.
A Pagan of the Hills
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The logs were ponderous masses.
Big Timber: A Story of the Northwest
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'What a ponderous mass of bones!
Swiss Family Robinson
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Each "gunner" seized his trip, and as the leader shrieked his signal the six ponderous masses of metalliferous rock heaved into the air as one.
Spacehounds of IPC
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