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  • There is a kind of Heaviness and Ignorance that hangs upon the Minds of ordinary Men, which is too thick for Knowledge to break through.

    Spectator, July 23, 1711 1711

  • There is a kind of Heaviness and Ignorance that hangs upon the Minds of ordinary Men, which is too thick for

    The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays Joseph Addison 1695

  • Heaviness has been upon her shoulders for too long.

    Bleached Jules Archer 2011

  • The dogs, whose names mean Knowledge, Swiftness, and Heaviness, incidentally, are good judges of character.

    The Dragon’s Apprentice James A. Owen 2010

  • The dogs, whose names mean Knowledge, Swiftness, and Heaviness, incidentally, are good judges of character.

    The Dragon’s Apprentice James A. Owen 2010

  • Heaviness filled me as I stood and walked slowly toward the tree where I had lain.

    A Time to Every Purpose « A Fly in Amber 2008

  • The dogs, whose names mean Knowledge, Swiftness, and Heaviness, incidentally, are good judges of character.

    The Dragon’s Apprentice James A. Owen 2010

  • Heaviness overshadowed the levity of talking about what I wore to the Emmys or what Calista was like as a person.

    Unbearable Lightness Portia de Rossi 2010

  • Heaviness in our step, like a ball and chain on our ankle

    Week 23: How to Live In Joy 2008

  • "Heaviness continued over the course of the European session, while weak Fannie Mae earnings forced dollar-yen through 104.50 bids and extended towards 104.30," wrote currency analysts at Action Economics.

    Dollar is battered by oil rise 2008

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