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I had already been warned that I should never show surprise, so I merely expressed my sympathy, and said that though I had only been in the capital so short a time, I had already had a very narrow escape from stealing a clothes-brush, and that though I had resisted temptation so far, I was sadly afraid that if I saw any object of special interest that was neither too hot nor too heavy,
Erewhon 2003
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She considered putting in a few bottles of cider as well, but there were limits to what the spell would hold, and her sleeves were growing heavy,
Calling On Dragons Wrede, Patricia C., 1953- 1993
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"Herky-bird" encountered no resistance at the beginning of its approach, heavy,
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Often freight cars jammed tight with Russian prisoners, or Jews rounded up for the extermination camps, would stand there, for days on end when the through traffic was heavy,
Barbarossa Clark, Alan 1965
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Ha was stationed beside the General, and during an interval when the firing from the town was very heavy,
Complete Project Gutenberg Collection of Memoirs of Napoleon Various
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I had noticed Poljensio running about, as one of the strongest and most agile of all the men in the water, and when he came near me once, when my basket was heavy,
Anting-Anting Stories And other Strange Tales of the Filipinos Sargent Kayme
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John set it on the window-sill, and, though very heavy,
Grace Harlowe's Senior Year at High School Jessie Graham [pseud.] Flower
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A lack of freedom is indicated in the voice, as in other kinds of mechanism by some sign of friction -- by a harsh tone from a constrained throat; by a nasal or a muffled tone, from some obstruction in the nasal passages of the head, either because of abnormal physical conditions, or because of an unnatural direction of the breath, mainly due probably to speaking with a closed mouth; by a bound-up, heavy,
Public Speaking Irvah Lester Winter
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Y: Then, he whose balance (of good deeds) will be (found) heavy,
Three Translations of The Koran (Al-Qur'an) side by side Abdullah Yusuf Ali 1902
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S: Then as for him whose measure of good deeds is heavy,
Three Translations of The Koran (Al-Qur'an) side by side Abdullah Yusuf Ali 1902
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