ponderosities

His fluent, easy-going style, free of fustian, thickets, ponderosities, is indebted to Thomson's as well as to Thomson's personal tutoring.

On the 'Virge' Craft, Robert 1997

Here are alluring condiments to tempt the most fastidious taste, vinous acidities to lubricate, and gastronomic ponderosities to titilate the palate!

Out of the Woods 1934

Farther on, where the river narrows again, a flutter-headed rabbit crossing at top speed has made a line seemingly as free from frivolous indirection as if it had been defined by all the ponderosities of mathematics.

Winter Mist 1921

Consider the solemn ponderosities of the pious old maids, male and female, who write book reviews for the newspapers.

A Book of Prefaces 1918

He fell back on Blue Books, and other ponderosities -- Barton by this time silent, or playing a clumsy chorus.

The Testing of Diana Mallory Humphry Ward 1885

There were possibilities of dulness, ponderosities of practice, arid social sands, the bad quarters-of-an-hour that turned up like false pieces in a debased currency, of which she made, on principle, very nearly as light as if she had not been clever enough to distinguish.

The Golden Bowl — Volume 1 Henry James 1879

There were possibilities of dulness, ponderosities of practice, arid social sands, the bad quarters-of-an-hour that turned up like false pieces in a debased currency, of which she made, on principle, very nearly as light as if she had not been clever enough to distinguish.

The Golden Bowl — Complete Henry James 1879

There were possibilities of dulness, ponderosities of practice, arid social sands, the bad quarters-of-an-hour that turned up like false pieces in a debased currency, of which she made, on principle, very nearly as light as if she had not been clever enough to distinguish.

The Golden Bowl — Volume 1 Henry James 1879

There were possibilities of dulness, ponderosities of practice, arid social sands, the bad quarters-of-an-hour that turned up like false pieces in a debased currency, of which she made, on principle, very nearly as light as if she had not been clever enough to distinguish.

The Golden Bowl — Volume 1 Henry James 1879

There were possibilities of dulness, ponderosities of practice, arid social sands, the bad quarters-of-an-hour that turned up like false pieces in a debased currency, of which she made, on principle, very nearly as light as if she had not been clever enough to distinguish.

The Golden Bowl — Complete Henry James 1879