She designed and supervised the building of the Harbert, Michigan, house, most of which was constructed by one local carpenter who carried the heavy beams singly upon his shoulder.

At last they concluded that the heavy, full feeling in their stomachs was due to lack of exercise.

Once covertly looking at Simms Purdew, the only man in the world whom he hated, he had seen the heavy, slack, bestubbled jaw open and close to emit the cruel, obscene banter, and had seen the pale-blue eyes go watery with whisky and merriment, and suddenly he was not seeing the face of that vile creature.

He settled on the sofa with his coffee, warming his hands on the cup, although the room was heavy with heat.

Her quarters were on the right as you walked into the building, and her small front room was clogged with heavy furniture -- a big, round, oak dining table and chairs, a buffet, with a row of unclaimed letters inserted between the mirror and its frame.

The bombproof was a low-ceilinged structure of heavy timbers covered with earth.

There was no place to sit, but Watson walked slowly from the ladder to the window slits and back, stooping slightly to avoid striking his head on the heavy beams.

This project was started at a time when there was a critical need for a high-energy fuel to provide an extra margin of range for high performance aircraft, particularly our heavy bombers.

The scaffolding, a confusion of heavy beams hanging from the gallery above, was strong and safe, but obscured visibility.

After heavy rains and an onslaught of mice, snow fell on October 15, 1825, and remained on the ground through a winter so cold that the ice on the Red was five feet thick.

He walked with a heavy list to the right, as that leg was four inches shorter than the other, but the lurch did not reduce his feline quickness with his guns.

Another frequent pioneer difficulty, caused by wearing rough and heavy shoes and boots, was corns.

Traffic was pretty heavy.

His face was ruddy and heavy and unlined, and when he laughed he showed his teeth, which were big and white and strong and unquestionably home-grown.

The equipment was solid and heavy and in good condition.

So junior's bedroom was usually tricked out with heavy, nondescript pieces that supposedly could take the `` hard knocks '', while the fine secretary was relegated to the parlor where it was for show only.

Its form was a heavy figure in a fluttering soutane.

She was so heavy that Maggie's arms shook from lifting her and taking care of her.

He was full of heavy family reminiscence.

All of the elements of the experience were impossible and yet the reality of them was heavy upon him and he resolved never again to visit the temple at Fudomae.

The earth was a little heavy and I had to stop once and clean the plowshares because they were not scouring properly, and I did not look back towards the place until I had turned the corner and was plowing across the upper line of the large field, a long way from where I had stopped because of the snake.

The success of his children's books was to become a source of considerable annoyance to Milne, whose self-avowed aim was to write whatever he pleased and who had, until then, found a ready audience for each change of direction: he had freed pre-war Punch from its ponderous facetiousness ; he had made a considerable reputation as a playwright ( like his idol J. M. Barrie ) on both sides of the Atlantic ; he had produced a witty piece of detective writing in The Red House Mystery ( although this was severely criticised by Raymond Chandler for the implausibility of its plot ).

He inferred the film's subject was weighty from the ponderous momentum he observed in the movements of its arms and legs, in the sagging of the knee as weight came onto it, and in the flatness of the foot.

The resulting squabble was ponderous in the brief Garfield presidency.

When OUP arrived on Indian shores, it was preceded by the immense prestige of the Sacred Books of the East, edited by Friedrich Max Müller, which had at last reached completion in 50 ponderous volumes.

However, shortly after the second World War a ponderous industrialization effort was commenced, the so-called " Piani di Rinascita " ( Rebirth Plans ), with the initiation of major infrastructure projects on the island.

Through intense lighting and high-speed filming, Tsuburaya was able to add to the realism of the effects by giving them a slightly slower, ponderous weightiness.

New York Times film critic Bosley Crowther panned Kings Row, which he described as being as " gloomy and ponderous " as the novel upon which it was based.

They argued that foreign policy was being made by a passive President influenced by a National Security Council rendered virtually useless by ponderous, bureaucratic machinery.

But from the moment it was unveiled, it faced ridicule ; Cellini compared the ponderous group to ' a sac full of melons '.

Thirty years after its premiere, William Grossman and Jack Farrell denounced the entire Aeolian concert, including Rhapsody in Blue, saying the " clumsily syncopated ' jazz ' was gradually replaced with ponderous pseudosymphonic harmonies played over dance rhythms, culminating in the concert rendition of Gershwin ’ s Rhapsody in Blue, one of the most ludicrous of the popular attempts during the 1920s to merge jazz and ' serious ' music ".

He also concluded that the existing three army area / six army arrangement was too ponderous to field a force that might be needed in a hurry and that existing mobilization plans were not flexible enough to tailor to various war plans then in existence.

Finnish historians, political scientists and journalists still debate whether President Kekkonen really wanted to dismiss Prime Minister Koivisto or whether Kekkonen wanted to speed up Koivisto's slow and ponderous decision-making or whether this government crisis was just a part of the ruthless " presidential game " that top politicians, such as Koivisto, Foreign Minister Väyrynen, Social Democratic Chairman Sorsa, acting Governor of the Bank of Finland Karjalainen, and Parliamentary Speaker Virolainen, were playing ( see, for example, Pekka Hyvärinen, " Finland's Man: Urho Kekkonen's Life " / Suomen mies.

Eldorado's plotting ... was disappointingly ponderous.

The success of the work was marked, despite a ponderous style.

" Most of the blame was attributed not to North Korea's ponderous socialist system but to ' the collapse of socialist countries and the socialist market of the world ,' which ' shattered ' many of P ' yongyang's trade partners and agreements .” The fall of the socialist market and trade partners led North Korea into a crisis that was unmanageable within their economic system.

" But even this was not unanimous as some critics found the party scene " ponderous " and the Grand Pas de Deux " insipid.

" Historian Steven E. Woodworth wrote, " Beneath the ponderous dome of his high forehead, the General would gaze goggle-eyed at those who spoke to him, reflecting long before answering and simultaneously rubbing both elbows all the while, leading one observer to quip that the great intelligence he was reputed to possess must be located in his elbows.

He also rose to prominence when the governing style of wrestling was the slower, more ponderous Greco-Roman style that emphasized muscle power more than speed, agility and ring generalship, and involved holds only above the waist.

The ponderous bell-tower was constructed mostly in the 17th century.

Time described the work as " a ponderous, lifeless, two-volume work which was technically a history of Santo Domingo, actually a careful indictment of U. S. foreign policy in the Hemisphere.

The old plan of a “ drop ” was discarded for a more merciful machine, by which the prisoner is jerked up from a platform on the ground level by a weight of 280 lbs, which is suspended by an independent rope pending the execution … At the words ‘ Forgive us our trespasses ,’ the executioner drove his chisel against the light rope that held the ponderous iron at the other end of the noose, and in an instant the heavy weight fell with a thud, and the pinioned body was jerked into the air and hung dangling between the rough posts of the scaffold.