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1. After each halt the truck then began its ponderous attempts at acceleration, jerking through the gears, sliding me slowly towards the rear of the box where my head would hit hard metal
2. were heavy and ponderous, and looked as if they were not shut very
3. ?' Her face took on a ponderous look again
4. Metal shuddered, but the wall continued its ponderous route along the track
5. Into the depths of the truck, and subsequently surrounded by equipment too ponderous for unloading except by oversized forklift, they concealed the cocaine
6. That was the longest two or three minutes of my life,” he added, in a ponderous kind of profundity
7. “You see,” said the Swede scratching his reddened beard as if deeply ponderous, “You have to have a… How do you say that?”
8. For such a ponderous subject, the students were lighthearted on the way to Larchfield
9. The extra mobility of flight prevents your being easily surrounded, or targeted by large, ponderous artillery pieces
10. This ponderous person exemplifies the peculiar tendency of the black jailer uniform to elevate the ego of the weak minded
11. Malcolm was ponderous and a little scared
12. Shukeli opened it, and as he swung back the ponderous portal, Conan noted the evident uneasiness among the black giants who guarded him; nor did Shukeli seem altogether devoid of nervousness as he peered into the darkness beyond
13. Strabonus, frantically shouting orders, with Arbanus, that would wheel around the ponderous lines to meet this unexpected menace, grunted, "We still outnumber them, unless they have reserves hidden in the hills
14. For one thing, contrary to Nancy’s typical plans, the pace was too ponderous, with invading troops arriving in many successive waves on too many targets at once
15. The gravity sails of the KOSTROMA were only powerful enough to impart to the ship, when at full load, an acceleration of less than two meters per second square, making it look slow and ponderous
16. Squirrels chattered back and forth incessantly, occasionally stopping to cast a curious gaze at the ponderous trio down below
17. But, no way, we had to listen his long and ponderous lectures, deaf-ear
18. ponderous girth out of the cab, grinned at everyone and smiled
19. Argon came to his feet in a series of ponderous motions that made for a major production; once risen to his full height Tel was uncomfortably reminded of how large a man his father was
20. The massive section of tree, still wet with sap and weighing too much and more, swayed in the chain sling with the ponderous gravity of a boulder balanced atop an eroded pedestal
21. We know that messages are carried around the world, that ponderous machinery does its bidding, that it now illuminates practically the whole world, but we know too that if we consciously or ignorantly violate its law by touching a live wire when it is not properly insulated, the result will be unpleasant and possibly disastrous
22. As there are many mighty powerhouses for the application of power to ponderous machinery, whereby raw material is collected and converted into the necessities and comforts of life, so the mental powerhouses collect the raw material and cultivate and develop it into a power which is infinitely superior to all the forces of Nature, marvelous though they be
23. The accountant once more stood up and moved away from the desk in ponderous strides
24. She was wheeling a ponderous brass urn on a trolley, which she obediently uncapped for her master
25. There is the flashiness and affluence of Europe with many of the shortcomings of the Middle East such as a ponderous bureaucracy and the mentality of the 135
26. getting things done in the ponderous government machinery
27. It was after me then with a ponderous stumble of heavy steps even as it wailed out its avarice to kill me
28. The seven ponderous ramps were well saturated with sewage water
29. ponderous; he would not win races
30. Even taking into account the material presented in this book and the strategies outlined for encouraging and supporting transitions between the levels of awareness the rate of global change seemed too ponderous and unreliable to ensue that we would avert a global crisis
31. For all that, he was much grieved at the loss of his lance, and saying so to his squire, he added, "I remember having read how a Spanish knight, Diego Perez de Vargas by name, having broken his sword in battle, tore from an oak a ponderous bough or branch, and with it did such things that day, and pounded so many Moors, that he got the surname of Machuca, and he and his descendants from that day forth were called Vargas y Machuca
32. He stands mask'd, clothed in red, with huge legs and strong naked arms, And leans on a ponderous axe
33. Like a monument lay the bright brown, ponderous coffin
34. But the black beetles took no notice of the agitation, and groped about the hearth in a ponderous elderly way, as if they were short-sighted and hard of hearing, and not on terms with one another
35. On one end there hung the ponderous ladder, straining the frayed rope against the corner of the brickwork and the sharp edge of the stone sill, at the other end were Dawson and Sawkins pulling with all their strength, and in that instant the rope snapped like a piece of thread
36. (He swoops uncertainly through the air, wheeling, uttering cries of heartening, on strong ponderous buzzard wings) Ho, boy! Are you going to win? Hoop! Pschatt! Stable with those halfcastes
37. He soon manifested his familiarity with the ponderous and imposing machinery of antique physic; in which every remedy contained a multitude of far-fetched and heterogeneous ingredients, as elaborately compounded as if the proposed result had been the Elixir of Life
38. These primitive statesmen, therefore,—Bradstreet, Endicott, Dudley, Bellingham, and their compeers,—who were elevated to power by the early choice of the people, seem to have been not often brilliant, but distinguished by a ponderous sobriety, rather than activity of intellect
39. “Oh, do they? How interesting!” Godwyn spoke with ponderous sarcasm
40. And the cameras caught it all: a half million uniformed party members marching in thunderous lock step, standing in massed rectangular formations, perfect in their uniformity and conformity; the speeches by Rudolf Hess, Goebbels, and Hitler himself, pounding on the podium, eyes ablaze, spittle flying from his mouth; Speer’s monumental architecture, the ponderous stone buildings lending their weight and solidity to the impression of overwhelming might, the vast open spaces suggesting unlimited ambition; the eerie torchlight parade of the SA men on the second night, with flickering torches and magnesium flares and bonfires illuminating their gleaming faces against the black night; the ranks of black-shirted SS men goose-stepping past bespectacled, crab-faced Heinrich Himmler; enormous banners emblazoned with swastikas, fluttering in the background of nearly every shot
41. We had sprung to our feet, and for a few moments we stared in silent amazement at this ponderous piece of wreckage, which told of some sudden and fatal storm far out on the ocean of life
42. There was below the sound of hasty and ponderous footsteps
43. My skin grew cold, and my hair stood on end as I listened to that steady and ponderous footfall
44. Now I stood astonished before it, for there were three similar imprints upon its surface, enormous in size, irregular in outline, of a depth which indicated the ponderous weight which had left them
45. And then suddenly I heard it! From far away down the tunnel came those muffled steps, so soft and yet so ponderous
46. Don Juste's eyes glowed dully; he believed in parliamentary institutions—and the convinced drone of his voice lost itself in the stillness of the house like the deep buzzing of some ponderous insect
47. "Of course," said he, with his clumsy and ponderous sarcasm, "Professor Summerlee will understand that when I speak of a pterodactyl I mean a stork—only it is the kind of stork which has no feathers, a leathery skin, membranous wings, and teeth in its jaws
48. He had scarcely read this note, and frowned at its contents, when he heard below the ponderous tramp of the servants, carrying something heavy
49. The upstairs hall seemed to shake as Mammy’s ponderous weight came toward the door
50. Was there nothing Mammy did not overhear? Scarlett wondered how that ponderous
