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"Dead weight" Quotes from Famous Books

... sat one day in the chair beside his, wondering as usual. I had felt heavy of late, with a soreness and languor in my bones, as if a dead weight hung continually on my shoulders, and another rested on my heart. A warmer colour in the Stranger's cheek caught my attention; and I bent forward, peering under the pendulous lids. His eyes were livelier and less profound. The melancholy was passing from them as ...

— Noughts and Crosses • Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch

... the other side, and this dead weight was sufficient to keep the narrow craft from going completely over; she righted, and swept into the mouth of ...

— Motor Boat Boys Down the Coast - or Through Storm and Stress to Florida • Louis Arundel

... do you mean?" she asked, her heart seeming to be a dead weight in her breast, heavy with suspicion over the dread significance in his voice and words. She watched ...

— 'Drag' Harlan • Charles Alden Seltzer

... a crisis as this," he said, "when everything dear and valuable to us is assailed, when this party hangs upon the wheels of government as a dead weight, opposing every measure that is calculated for defense and self-preservation, abetting the nefarious views of another nation upon our rights, preferring, as long as they dare contend openly against the spirit and resentment of the people, the ...

— George Washington, Vol. II • Henry Cabot Lodge

... skill could do. Snow was brought in to encourage back the life it had dismayed, and camphor and coffee awaited their turn to take part in the resuscitation. Slow and reluctant it was, like dragging a dead weight up from an unknown depth. More than another hour had passed away before Sophie's eyelids quivered, and a slight tremor moved her lips. By-and-by she opened her eyes, slowly and uncertainly, let them close again, and once more opened them; and, ...

— Bressant • Julian Hawthorne

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