"Heaviness" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... in whom I had faith; with whom I lived for ten years. We were closer than brothers. He deserted me in my hour of need—but go on with your dusting; what matters it? I tell you so that you may understand why I feel so badly. Heaviness grows upon me, so that I doubt if I shall ever see the bright ...
— Cupid's Middleman • Edward B. Lent
... Pen Gray started up in alarm, his mind in a state of confusion consequent upon the heaviness of his sleep and the feeling of trouble that ...
— !Tention - A Story of Boy-Life during the Peninsular War • George Manville Fenn
... born in 1803 at another station of the regiment, East Dereham. He calls himself a gloomy child, a "lover of nooks and retired corners . . . sitting for hours together with my head on my breast . . . conscious of a peculiar heaviness within me, and at times of a strange sensation of fear, which occasionally amounted to horror, and for which I could assign no real cause whatever." A maidservant thought him a little wrong in the head, ...
— George Borrow - The Man and His Books • Edward Thomas
... Critics! in whose heads, as equal scales, I weigh what author's heaviness prevails; Which most conduce to sooth the soul in slumbers, My H—ley's periods, or my Blackmore's numbers; Attend the trial we propose to make: If there be man who o'er such works can wake, Sleep's all-subduing ...
— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, Number 358, August 1845 • Various
... the rest, and the heaviness from the food were forgotten; and there existed but one dominating, resistless impulse in dog and ...
— Baldy of Nome • Esther Birdsall Darling
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