Heaviest

Examples

• The heaviest British gun at that time was of 111-ton weight. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Moreover, and what was the heaviest blow of all, he had time, thus unmolested, to get a good start. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• When I could cry no more, I began to think; and then the oppression on my breast was heaviest, and my grief a dull pain that there was no ease for. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• The heaviest loss sustained by the enemy was in front of these two divisions. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Everything is stone, and stone of the heaviest--floors, stairways, mantels, benches--everything. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• These people here live in the heaviest, highest, broadest, darkest, solidest houses one can imagine. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• This was an endless steel belt serrated on one edge, mounted on pulleys, and driven continuously by the power of steam through the hardest and the heaviest work. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• He remembered her by fits and starts, even with bursts of tears, and at such times would confide to me the heaviest self-reproaches. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• The fattest gentleman as ever I see, and the heaviest customer as ever I drove. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• Formerly breech-loaders were confined to the heaviest ordnance; now they are a part of the lightest field pieces. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• It was the newest, the heaviest, and the best pieces only, which were carefully picked out of the whole coin, and either sent abroad or melted down. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• In this particular commodity, therefore, this second tax is by much the heaviest of the two. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• As for paper, there is everything in white and colored, from thinnest tissue up to the heaviest asbestos, even a few newspapers being always on hand. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• But we have not yet mentioned the heaviest count in the indictment--the power which poetry has of injuriously exciting the feelings. Plato. The Republic.
• It is the best and heaviest pieces that are commonly either melted down or exported, because it is upon such that the largest profits are made. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• The physical state of man would soon not yield to the beatitude of angels; disease was to be banished; labour lightened of its heaviest burden. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• Gold is one of the heaviest of the metals, and not being liable to be injured by exposure to the air, it is well fitted to be used as coin. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Dear Mrs. Steerforth, we must all trust to that, in our heaviest misfortunes. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.

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