ponderosity

• “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 Literature And National Policy

• “But you forgot "pondering the ponderousness of ponderosity.”

  Artist’s Statement Generator

• “Carpenter is readable and lacks the ponderosity so characteristic of many biographies by academics.”

  Book Review: J. R. R. Tolkien, A Biography by Humphrey Carpenter – Grasping for the Wind

• “The unseen then went to the door and locked it, examined the fastenings of the windows carefully and pulled down the blinds, and returning sat down upon the bed with startling ponderosity.”

  Twelve Stories and a Dream, by H. G. Wells

• “In promulgating your esoteric cogitations, or articulating your superficial sentimentalities and amicable, philosophical or psychological observations, beware of platitudinous ponderosity.”

  December 7th, 2005

• “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.”

  Lady Chatterley's Lover

• “The ponderosity of her qualifications for nobility was sometimes too much even for her mother, and her devotion for the peerage was such, that she would certainly have declined a seat in heaven if offered to her without the promise that it should be in the upper house.”

  Doctor Thorne

• “Maria, a fleer at mere ponderosity, skipped and whisked from left to right with fay-like airiness of foot until a thrill of delight went through the camp.”

  Tropic Days

• “Hence the stiff, insentient spines, the rich physique, and the heavy, dreary natures, heavy like the dark-grey mud-bricks, with a terrible obstinate ponderosity and a dry sort of gloom.”

  The Plumed Serpent

• “In vain handspikes and crows were brought to bear upon the immovable fluke-chains, to pry them adrift from the timberheads; and so low had the whale now settled that the submerged ends could not be at all approached, while every moment whole tons of ponderosity seemed added to the sinking bulk, and the ship seemed on the point of going over.”

  Moby Dick; or the Whale

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