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Значения термина ponderosity на английском

The property of being large in mass.

Использование термина ponderosity на английском
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Everything contributed to the impression of immense ponderosity exceeding the imagination.
Clayhanger
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His attitude towards the world was indeed one of conscious ponderosity.
Roden's Corner
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Bodies that have the least ponderosity would presently sink under water.
The Existence of God
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Christ, victor over Death and Hell, did not triumph by ponderosity and sinews.
The Life of Michelangelo Buonarroti
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The younger generation was extinguished, pressed flat and lifeless under the ponderosity of the widows.
The Old Wives' Tale
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Pierre, flattered by his son's confidence, exaggerated that passive ponderosity which made him so impenetrable.
The Fortune of the Rougons
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The great breakers boiled over them with the ponderosity peculiar to the waters of the Pacific.
The Splendid Idle Forties: Stories of Old California
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He announces it with such ponderosity that the world believes it's as prodigious as his sentences!
Under the Prophet in Utah; the National Menace of a Political Pr...
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It was the ponderosity of officialdom, he felt, grown playful, in the face of a passing triviality.
Phantom Wires: A Novel
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He flew-helost his sense of ponderosity.
Atlantis
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Certainly he was not in the least graceful; that 'ponderosity' of his could in no way be repressed.
The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 4, April, 1862 / Devoted To...
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The famous sensibility of Sterne was a reaction against the seriousness, the ponderosity, of previous prose literature in England.
Some Diversions of a Man of Letters
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But he, fearing the ponderosity of her hand, rarely submitted; his spinal column being delicate, he dared not risk it.
Punchinello, Volume 2, No. 31, October 29, 1870
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The officer was a big, burly man, handsome in his way, his ponderosity suggesting a formidable development of muscle rather than fat.
The Ordeal: A Mountain Romance of Tennessee
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After curing or baking, these fifty pounds weighed only forty-six pounds five ounces, showing a loss in ponderosity of nearly eight per cent.
Biographical Memorials of James Oglethorpe / Founder of the Colo...
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His playing is described as possessing an organ firmness of touch without organ ponderosity, and having an expression that moved deeply without intoxicating.
For Every Music Lover / A Series of Practical Essays on Music
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