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    leaden


    1. the confused of mind to enter their leaden halls and


    2. His sorrow mounted and his heart was leaden as he began the homeward journey, yet he surmounted the darkness and once again was himself


    3. “…No,” Was the delayed and leaden reply, “I…I’m quite confident that it’s lingering guilt rather than worry


    4. shower of iron and leaden hail


    5. The leaden skies and the softly-swishing traffic foretold a long, damp and dismal winter in this city


    6. With the distance shortening encouragingly, he now forced himself into a staggering gait ruled by the conflict between eager anticipation and leaden exhaustion


    7. It was rather cold and the sky was leaden, but it was not snowing, and there was little snow in the woods


    8. Ever so slowly the soft lack of resistance turned to a leaden weight in his arms


    9. slowly the soft lack of resistance turned to a leaden weight in his arms


    10. To her relief, Tress slowly felt signs of movement returning to her leaden arms

    11. The sea was leaden


    12. He wondered when the leaden clouds that obscured his happiness had arrived and if it was his fault


    13. These all may be turned to account on the platform; even the leaden events of hum-drum daily life may be melted into bullets for future battles


    14. The Indian summer was long gone and most of the trees poked bare branches at the leaden skies, their leaves whipping past in the wind to pile up in doorways and sheltered spots


    15. had ceased falling but the skies were still leaden and grey, brooding


    16. He had dark eyes with thick, leaden eyelids¾the eyes as passionate as fire behind the rimless glasses


    17. He reached the camp as the leaden sky opened up and rain lashed down onto the moors


    18. ‖ The big Miccosukee laid the club across his lap, folded his arms across his massive chest and directed a leaden stare at the woman


    19. The skies over Quebec Province were leaden, and more snow


    20. It was a grey, leaden sky and bitterly cold

    21. The sky above them was growing ever more leaden, and snow had been forecast for the capital late afternoon


    22. To make matters worse it was starting to snow, just small flurries now but the threat of a white-out was there in the heavy leaden sky


    23. So, with leaden heart and a storm in his head, Ambrosius hit the Cannery Arms


    24. Accompanied by an Iranian technician also wearing a protective suit, she then entered the vault and looked around at the hundreds of leaden containers inside the shielded room before starting to walk slowly among them


    25. him in a deadly leaden hail, but he jinked and swerved into the dark, his hands


    26. He staggered away, his limbs suddenly leaden and shaking


    27. She turned toward Millie Clements with leaden feet


    28. November is nearly upon us, and we shiver under leaden clouds and driving rain


    29. You never do seem to mind the things that would fill my heart with leaden despair, and over other things that should not matter you cry out


    30. Isn't it shameful that the sight of leaden clouds--but they really are dreadful clouds, inky, ragged, harassed--scudding across the sky, and of furious brown beech-leaves on the little trees in front of the Lindebergs' deserted house being lashed and maddened by the wind, should make me suddenly catch my breath for pain? It is pain, quite sharp, unmistakable pain, and it is because I am alone, and my friends gone and the dusk is falling

    31. There is practically only that one street in Göhren, and it is lined with hotels and lodging-houses, and down at the bottom, between the over-arching trees, the leaden waves were dashing on the deserted sands


    32. There is no cold with quite so forlorn a chill in it as a sudden interruption of July heats; and there is no place with quite so forlorn a feeling about it as deserted sands on a leaden evening


    33. Was it only the evening before that I had sailed away from Vilm in glory and in joy, leaving the form of the abstruse but beautiful youth standing in such a golden radiance that it was as the form of an angel? Down among the dunes, where the grey ribbons of the sea-grass were violently fluttering and indigo clouds lay in an unbroken level over leaden waves, I sat and ate my rusks and was wretched


    34. A leaden uneasiness settled over the room


    35. Here she was able to say magnificently, "Next month I'll do this or that," sure of her months, sure of their being arrangeable things, flexible to her will, not each just a great black leaden weight holding her pinned down more and more heavily to a sofa


    36. To Ingram on that leaden afternoon the lake looked like a coffin, and the islands as dull and shabby as three nails in it; to Ingeborg they looked like three little miracles of God


    37. They walked miles that day; often in silence, sometimes in gusty talk--talk gusty with the swift changes of Priscilla's mood scudding across the leaden background of Fritzing's steadier despair--and they got back tired, hungry, their clothes splashed with mud, their minds no nearer light than when they started


    38. She really had a headache; and when the dusk came, and Wemyss turned on the lights, it was evident even to him that she had, for there was no colour at all in her face and her eyes were puffed and leaden


    39. The posse swarmed into the tunnel in a bunch behind the Leader, jostling and puffing and for many with leaden steps and rubbery knees


    40. So they moved on, their legs like sacks of sand, their arms leaden and with eye lids that could barely be kept up

    41. to check the area of the house, a ‘drive-past’ under a leaden


    42. And behold, the leaden cover was lifted, and there was a woman sitting in the ephah!


    43. Soon heavy, leaden sleep came over him, as it were crushing him


    44. There was nothing poignant, nothing acute about it; but there was a feeling of permanence, of eternity about it; it brought a foretaste of hopeless years of this cold leaden misery, a foretaste of an eternity "on a square yard of space


    45. The first words written on the parchment found in the leaden box were these: THE ACADEMICIANS OF


    46. At the unexpected shock of this phrase falling on her thought like a leaden bullet on a silver plate, Emma, shuddering, raised her head in order to find out what he meant to say; and they looked at the other in silence, almost amazed to see each other, so far sundered were they by their inner thoughts


    47. Waking up in the morning after some hours of heavy, leaden sleep, and immediately realising all that had happened on the previous day, I was positively amazed at my last night's sentimentality with Liza, at all those


    48. of copper, and he put on the leaden cover his seal, which is enchantment enough


    49. RINCEWIND? Death said, in tones as deep and heavy as the slamming of leaden doors, far underground


    50. With some care he selected a Zchloty leaden quarter-iotum and balanced it on a purple thumbnail




























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    Synonyms for "leaden"

    dull leaden heavy plodding weighted metallic lead pewter grey weighty oppressive burdensome onerous

    "leaden" definitions

    darkened with overcast


    made heavy or weighted down with weariness


    made of lead


    (of movement) slow and laborious


    lacking lightness or liveliness