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The warriors they pursued—pursuit being something the army in the West did not do very much of—could ride fifty miles in seven hours, and one hundred miles without stopping, abilities the plodding, weighed-down dragoons simply refused to believe.
EMPIRE OF THE SUMMER MOON S. C. Gwynne 2010
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The lightly-armed, body-armor-less guerrillas were too mobile and too agile, he said, for up-armored, heavily weighed-down American troops.
Nick Turse: Obama's Choice: Failed War President or the Prince of Peace? 2009
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The answer, computer makers hope, is because those laptops will appeal to weighed-down road warriors and corporations tired of fixing the hard drives of employees 'dropped or damaged notebooks.
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I always look forward to the next one, and I do have several more of his books on my weighed-down to-be-read shelves.
Archive 2007-05-01 Divers 2007
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She was deathly white, and had that weighed-down look which people wear when they have watched all night beside one who is hovering between life and death.
We Two, a novel Edna Lyall 1880
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Some of these weighed-down gutters hung like icicles down the side of the house.
NYT > Home Page By BOB TEDESCHI 2011
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These weighed-down mamas might have more trouble outrunning predators or tuna fishermen in the wild.
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Moody's and Standard and Poor's last year, has been weighed-down by public debt levels of 100pc of GDP, and the bail-out of Dexia bank, which S&P estimated would increase the country's debt by 1.1pc of GDP.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph and 2012
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_ 'Tis past fatigue, which gives my weighed-down spirit
The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 5 Poetry George Gordon Byron Byron 1806
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"If my last album was weighed-down, like an anchor, this one is a buoy" he adds.
PlugInMusic.com 2010
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