Tis thus, the heaviest weight in the scales lowers the iron beam.
When it came to my turn, I produced the heaviest bag of tomauns that had yet been given in, which secured to me the applause of the company.
I can remember seeing the Rowsham, generally believed to be bottomless, forded in perfect safety by half-a-dozen of the finest and heaviest bullocks the Vale of Aylesbury ever fattened into beef.
It takes the heaviest fish,--I mean real fish--with a rod and line.
It is the weight of this heaviest of minerals, and not its lovely crystals, that gives it value.
The English trees are massive, solid in substance and color; the grass is thick, and green as emerald; the turf is like the heaviest Wilton carpet.
The plants are tied up in the gardens, the fountains are covered over, and the inhabitants go about in furs and the heaviest winter clothing long before we should think of doing so at home.
In spite, however, of the heaviest shelling the signallers never allowed a break to go unmended, and they were continually out under heavy fire repairing the damage.
It is no discredit to them that this was so, for of the three Battalions launched to the attack they had the worst ground to traverse and the heaviest fire to face.
It was here that the Brigade Commander, Colonel Koltes, was killed, and here that the Brigade suffered the heaviest loss.
Under a commission from the Government I organized 'Waul's Texas Legion,' upon the express terms that they were to leave the State, cross the Mississippi River and join in the fray where the blows fell heaviest and thickest.
The heaviest part of the foundations of buildings settles most, and leaves the lighter part above it separated from it.
The heaviest part of this sediment was that which was first thrown down, and so on by degrees; and this is the action of water when it becomes stagnant, having first brought down the mud whence it first flowed.
As it was only necessary to cut sticks for the purpose four or five feet long, we soon had enough prepared, with a number of the heaviest boughs we could manage to bring to the spot.
With these we loaded ourselves, Jose taking one of the heaviest packages.
I think it was theheaviest firing which I heard during the war.
Yet to these good Christians that doctrine was an unshakable conviction, a truth which consoled their heaviest afflictions.
One of the heaviest of the many afflicting thoughts which were weighing upon her to-day was the manner in which Nero had treated her former husband and her son.
But you are the youngest--it falls heaviest on you.
On a review of the facts, my own belief is that the heaviest part of Paine's wrong came indirectly from Great Britain.
But I see that, Captain Barnstable, which is more dangerous than a dozen of the heaviest cannon that were ever cast can be, at half a league's distance.
Among the heaviest charges which were urged against him was the killing and eating of that wretched Scharfenebbe--Sharpbeak--the crow's wife.
It is strange that, of all extant accusations against any one of the abbeys, the heaviest is from a quarter which even Lingard himself would scarcely call suspicious.
The noble beast had done her duty on the hard trip from Iowa, and being the biggest and strongest, she had borne the heaviest burden.
It was the heaviest thing that ever hit me, let me tell you, and I've been punching cattle seven years.
The winter snows on Mount Rainier are heaviest in the vicinity of its base; indeed, the snowfall at those low levels is several times greater than that on the summit.
In each of these lofty mountain regions the precipitation is known to be heaviest at moderate altitudes, while higher up it decreases markedly.
There is good reason to believe, moreover, that the cool glacial climate resulted in a general lowering of the zone of heaviest snowfall.
The dreaded bar is as usual double: in the heaviest weather boats make for a solitary palm-tree at the bottom of the sandy bay.
After receiving and returning the visits of the principal whites, all habited in frocks and continuations of the blackest and heaviest broadcloth, we feasted with the excellent commandant, who was hospitality itself.
The clergy were entirely exempted from this tax; the more influential nobles and bourgeois contrived to have their incomes underestimated, and the burden fell heaviest on the poorer classes.
Sidenote: Peasant Obligations to King and State] Heaviest of all were the taxes levied by the king.
Their advice was not asked when taxes were levied or apportioned, but upon them fell the heaviest burdens of the state.
The one who suffered the heaviest loss was able to protect her--in a measure.
He was a hero, and now I felt his loss doubly; he was one of the best in the caravan, a Sanskari, and had long carried the heaviest boxes of silver.
The casualties were the heaviestof any day in the regiment's history.
Of all the misfortunes of his life, the heaviest were to fall upon him that year.
Hundreds of thousands of dollars had been staked, and Peggy O'Neill no doubt was intimately acquainted with some of the heaviest winners and losers, among the latter of whom was John Randolph.
Furthermore, as modern conscript armies are organized, it is the youngest men who sustain the heaviest losses--the men who are not yet fathers.
The heaviest civilian losses have come through increased infant mortality and decreased birth-rates.
The heaviest member of the party, a man over thirteen stone, was blown from the rope and nearly lost while attempting the journey.
But as they had to keep afloat and warm if they were going to escape, he considered that first of all they should remove their stores to the thickest, heaviest ice they could find, and then set to work to build snow huts for shelter.
However, each human being's burden is the one whose weight must seem the heaviest to himself, and He alone who lays them on proportions them to our strength and enables us to walk upright beneath them.
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