CHAPTER XIX Friends Again EMILY listened very anxiously on Monday morning, but "no sound of axe, no ponderous hammer rang" in Lofty John's bush.
But before she could see more than the backs of rather ponderous volumes, Aunt Elizabeth came in, with a mug of milk and a plate whereon lay two little oatmeal cakes.
Ellen looked down gloomily into the rapt little face, where excitement had kindled a faint wild-rose flush, and said, with a ponderous sigh: "Do you know that your pa has only a week or two more to live?
Sutton, lumbering and ponderous, joined the party.
Cecily, determined to do her duty even in the face of such fearful odds as Great-aunt Eliza's deafness, dragged a ponderous, plush-covered album from its corner and proceeded to display and explain the family photographs.
CHAPTER 29 GILBERT AND ANNE DISAGREE Gilbert laid down the ponderous medical tome over which he had been poring until the increasing dusk of the March evening made him desist.
Being slow and ponderous, it always took him a long time to reach a new idea.
Assume that I have carefully weighed and comprehended your ponderous remarks; how do I begin?
Not tables, toilettes, wardrobes, or drawers, but on one side perhaps the remains of a broken lute, on the other a ponderous chest which no efforts can open, and over the fireplace the portrait of some handsome warrior, whose features will so incomprehensibly strike you, that you will not be able to withdraw your eyes from it.
A philosophical guy who could be both playful and ponderous, Raskin had studied computer science, taught music and visual arts, conducted a chamber opera company, and organized guerrilla theater.
" This impressed the young man as being quite impossible; he could not believe it, and he was tormented by doubt and ponderous thoughts.
