Adjective : He carried a ponderous burden on his back. ,a ponderous dissertation. From Dictionary.com.
Certainly he was not in the least graceful; that 'ponderosity' of his could in no way be repressed. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 4, April, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
But you forgot "pondering the ponderousness of ponderosity.". From Wordnik.com. [Artist’s Statement Generator] Reference
Carpenter is readable and lacks the ponderosity so characteristic of many biographies by academics. From Wordnik.com. [Book Review: J. R. R. Tolkien, A Biography by Humphrey Carpenter – Grasping for the Wind] Reference
I do this only for that the Oracle has cast its impact on us, and my books suggest the ponderosity of the situation. From Wordnik.com. [Blue Adept]
As a set-off to this ponderosity there are the letters of BURNE-JONES, fresh, amiable and delightful, as also those of Professor JAMES. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, December 26, 1917] Reference
All alike, they clustered themselves down on the eggs in the soft nestling ponderosity of the female urge, the female nature, fluffing out their feathers. From Wordnik.com. [Lady Chatterley's Lover] Reference
It made him realize one reason why Cherie did not seem as lovely now: her breasts were enlarged to the point of ponderosity, so that she could nurse her foal. From Wordnik.com. [The Source of Magic]
The ponderosity of the large bombards held them to level land, where they were laid on rugged mounts of the heaviest wood, anchored by stakes driven into the ground. From Wordnik.com. [Artillery Through the Ages A Short Illustrated History of Cannon, Emphasizing Types Used in America] Reference
The prominent feature of the theory, therefore, is the necessity it will show for the existence of an all-pervading medium, and that it possesses inertia without ponderosity. From Wordnik.com. [Outlines of a Mechanical Theory of Storms Containing the True Law of Lunar Influence] Reference
He has neither the ponderosity nor the digital power of. From Wordnik.com. [Frederic Chopin as a Man and Musician]
The ponderosity of her mind was only equaled by that of her body. From Wordnik.com. [The Tinder-Box] Reference
Senator was striding as rapidly as his ponderosity would allow up. From Wordnik.com. [Rose of Old Harpeth] Reference
His attitude towards the world was indeed one of conscious ponderosity. From Wordnik.com. [Roden's Corner] Reference
Bodies that have the least ponderosity would presently sink under water. From Wordnik.com. [The Existence of God] Reference
Holding it in his hand, and apparently testing its ponderosity, he says. From Wordnik.com. [The Death Shot A Story Retold] Reference
Suddenly the door of the ducal cavern closed in all its metallic ponderosity. From Wordnik.com. [The Nabob, Vol. 2 (of 2)] Reference
I won't dispute the palm of beauty with him, Mrs. Nettley, nor of ponderosity. From Wordnik.com. [The Hills of the Shatemuc] Reference
"Oh, everything comes here," said Beaton, impatient of the elder's ponderosity. From Wordnik.com. [A Hazard of New Fortunes — Complete] Reference
Everything contributed to the impression of immense ponderosity exceeding the imagination. From Wordnik.com. [Clayhanger] Reference
It seems strange to see an Englishman with so little physical ponderosity and obtuseness of nerve. From Wordnik.com. [Passages from the English Notebooks, Volume 1.] Reference
It was the ponderosity of officialdom, he felt, grown playful, in the face of a passing triviality. From Wordnik.com. [Phantom Wires A Novel] Reference
Adelaide and I were weighed at Windsor, and our united ponderosity amounted to – what do you think?. From Wordnik.com. [Further Records, 1848-1883: A Series of Letters] Reference
The younger generation was extinguished, pressed flat and lifeless under the ponderosity of the widows. From Wordnik.com. [The Old Wives' Tale] Reference
Pierre, flattered by his son's confidence, exaggerated that passive ponderosity which made him so impenetrable. From Wordnik.com. [The Fortune of the Rougons] Reference
Imagine the appalling ponderosity of a conversation in which one felt bound to praise every one who was mentioned. From Wordnik.com. [From a College Window] Reference
From these general and primitive properties flow a number of others, such as density, figure, colour, ponderosity, &c. From Wordnik.com. [The System of Nature, Volume 1] Reference
The famous sensibility of Sterne was a reaction against the seriousness, the ponderosity, of previous prose literature in England. From Wordnik.com. [Some Diversions of a Man of Letters] Reference
The officer was a big, burly man, handsome in his way, his ponderosity suggesting a formidable development of muscle rather than fat. From Wordnik.com. [The Ordeal A Mountain Romance of Tennessee] Reference
Her talk is easy, chatty, bright, animated -- no disquisitions, n o ponderosity, no obtrusion of heavy theories and abstract views of life. From Wordnik.com. [The Woman's Advocate.] Reference
He was asked to remain, of course, to which he assented, and slipped into his place with a quiet ponderosity which seemed to belong to him. From Wordnik.com. [Clare Avery A Story of the Spanish Armada] Reference
The statue is immensely massive, a vast ponderosity of stone, not finely spiritualized, nor, indeed, fully humanized, but rather resembling a great stone-bowlder than. From Wordnik.com. [Our Old Home A Series of English Sketches A Series of English Sketches] Reference
He announces it with such ponderosity that the world believes it's as prodigious as his sentences! ". From Wordnik.com. [Under the Prophet in Utah; the National Menace of a Political Priestcraft] Reference
"We'd better be on our ponderosity.". From Wordnik.com. [Stork Naked]
"I won't dispute the palm of beauty with him, Mrs. Nettley, nor of ponderosity. From Wordnik.com. [Hills of the Shatemuc] Reference
With dogmatic ponderosity he declared that the. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 150, March 22, 1916] Reference
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