"Well, I'll try," said the Stork, "but if I find he is too heavy to carry I shall have to drop him in the river again."
But Dorothy did not know this, nor could she get away from the bright red flowers that were everywhere about; so presently her eyes grew heavy and she felt she must sit down to rest and to sleep.
The bell again; the glare of light and heat dispelled; the factories, looming
heavy in the black wet night - their tall chimneys rising up into the air like competing Towers of Babel.
Akut's mighty yellow tusks found the jugular of more than one sleek-skinned savage, and Tarzan of the Apes was here and there and everywhere, urging on his fierce allies and taking a heavy toll with his long, slim knife.
A heavy hand fell upon the shoulder of the escaping Mugambi before he was aware that he was being pursued, and as he turned to do battle with his assailant giant fingers closed about his wrists and he was hurled to earth with a giant astride him before he could strike a blow in his own defence.
"I have brought something better than news," said I, putting down the box upon the table and speaking jovially and boisterously, though my heart was
heavy within me.
Although drawn downwards by the
heavy weight which hastened his rapid descent, it seemed to him as if the fall lasted for a century.
The Arabs rushed across the room; the Waziri met them with their
heavy spears.
And who substituted for the ancient gothic altar, splendidly encumbered with shrines and reliquaries, that
heavy marble sarcophagus, with angels' heads and clouds, which seems a specimen pillaged from the Val-de-Grâce or the Invalides?
Now she felt but a gentle roll, though the wild turmoil of the storm still came to her ears through the
heavy planking of the Ithaca's hull.
And then the Martian beside us raised his tube on high and discharged it, gunwise, with a
heavy report that made the ground heave.
As our object was to effect as rapid a flight as possible to the mountains, we determined not to encumber ourselves with any superfluous apparel; and accordingly, while the rest were rigging themselves out with some idea of making a display, we were content to put on new stout duck trousers, serviceable pumps, and
heavy Havre-frocks, which with a Payta hat completed our equipment.