Yet he prayed without ceasing, and gave heavily to the poor--the only thing he could not give being big ideas to his provincial and suburban deity.
Lamb's time, after his manumission from India-House, seems to have hung rather heavilyupon his hands.
A long shiver passed over her, and she sighed heavily once or twice as she looked vacantly at the letter on the floor.
On the way thence to Dayton we shall pass a number of long trains, made up of platform-cars heavily laden with barrels carrying East the riches of the Pennsylvania oil-region.
For a moment she swayed to and fro with her hand outstretched to catch a chair for support, but before I could reach her she had fallen heavily to the floor.
His fortune was gone; debts contracted for his expedition weighed heavilyon him; and for years he lived in obscurity, almost in misery.
She must now mourn the loss of Sister Benigna more heavily than before, since she found herself without support on the highway of sorrow.
The wind had so far died down, and the rain had considerably lessened, but the gloom of the sky was deepened by the drawing on of the afternoon, and lay heavily over the deary wastes of moor and hill.
We must conclude that the climate was tropical, the air very heavy with moisture, and charged much more heavily than it is now with carbonic acid gas.
But the German people are too heavily taxed already, and refuse to vote money for this miserable colony, where the great beginning must be made because it is only here that they can work unsuspected.
He turned on his heel and left us, striding heavily with the strength of an ox and about the alertness of a traction engine, turning his head every once in a while to enjoy the spectacle of our discomfort.
Van Deventer explained to the men before the doors in a casual voice, though he was breathingheavily from the unaccustomed exertion.
He half-rolled over, and the table moved as if it had been precariously balanced, and slid heavily to one side.
In Baden he spent a couple of pleasant months, though it is hinted that he lost heavily at the gaming-tables there.
She is said to have "pitched in" pretty heavily to his lordship.
It took the form of a statement of account between publisher and author, and showed that the latter was heavily indebted to the former.
Reports from deserters that we were to be heavily attacked were persistent, and the Division stood to arms twice before 21st March.
On the morning of the 20th October the Germans attacked very heavily on the whole front.
The Germans throughout the 19th April heavily bombarded these trenches, and succeeded in seizing them at night.
Wearne at a moment when the attack was being heavily pressed, and when matters were most critical, leapt on to the parapet and, followed by his left section, ran along the top of the trench, firing and throwing bombs at the enemy.
After Michael's deposition and during the struggle for power that followed, the Communists effectively controlled the press and radio through the unions serving these facilities, which they had heavily infiltrated.
King Carol was forced to appoint a pro-German cabinet, and the government was heavily infiltrated with members of the Iron Guard, most of whom were released from custody under German pressure.
The carving of wood is a natural form of folk expression in the heavily forested areas of the Carpathians and Transylvania.
In 1969 some decentralization in publishing took place with the opening of branch offices of the larger houses in a few of the moreheavily populated districts.
In rural areas the clergy are heavily depended upon as counselors and confidants.
It was somewhat heavily lined for one so young, and the marks of a hard life were on him, but distinction and energy were in his look and in every turn of his body.
So she went, as usual, though her feet dragged heavily and her eyes throbbed with a dull headache.
She took a long, uncertain breath and droppedheavily into a chair.
She said nothing, but sighed heavily as she resigned it.
For, no sooner did the Bashkirs find themselves too heavily pressed, and that the Kalmuck march had been retarded by some hours, than they retired into the boundless deserts where all pursuit was hopeless.
As we have seen, moist surfaces retain any bacteria lodged upon them; but in a dry barn, where molecular disturbance is the rule rather than the exception, it is not surprising that the air is heavily laden with microbic life.
He watched it rumble heavilydown the sodden asphalt.
Schuyler came down the stairs slowly, leaning heavily against the broken balustrade.
The prophecy of the children that Bourcelles was a difficult place to get away from found its justification next morning, for Rogers slept so heavily that he nearly missed his train.
The tip of the pencil snapped as he pressed too heavily on it.
The great Citadelle loomed above the smaller houses, half in shadow half in silver, nodding heavily to the spire of the Church, and well within sight of the sentinelle poplar that guarded the village from the forest and the mountains.
A few dim lines of sombre grey issued heavily from it, but got no farther than its outer surface, then doubled back and plunged in again.
It did, indeed run off, but the want of decision it gave to the countenance seemed contradicted by the prominent forehead and straight eyebrows, heavily marked.
Pleiades, but heavily downhill towards his cousin and Minks.
The Head Gardener lumbered heavily after them to find his flowers and trees.
Through the open window came the clatter of lumbering traffic that passedheavily down St. James's Street.
For years he had pored over these thick tomes, but heavily and without understanding.
Red hitched his holster and walked heavily into a room at his left.
She watched him from the heavily draped window, and sighed as she wondered if her dashing Americano would storm the house and carry her off like the knights of old.
As he rounded a turn and entered a heavily grassed valley he saw a stream close at hand and, leaping off, fixed the saddle first.
In obedience to his order she sat down with a bang, so heavily that Bruce was nearly shot up into the air.
During several moments I obstinately endeavoured to comprehend this mystery; but irresistible Indifference soon threw herself upon me, nor was I more heavily dejected thereby than they by their crushing Chimaeras.
Two years later he was so heavily in debt that his family asked for a guardian on the ground of incompetency.
Silvertail, clinging gamely to her leader, brushed through the fence and pecked heavily on landing.
Flibberty-gibbet, on the other hand, the second Dewhurst horse, had been bumped at the first fence, and pecked heavily on landing.
The heavily craped train, its sombre engine swathed in black, moved through the land like an eclipse.
This, too, is exclusive of my ordinary expenses during the campaign, all of which, being added to my loss of time and business, bears pretty heavily upon one no better off than I am.
So bowed and sorrow-laden was his whole person, expressing such weariness of mind and body, as he dropped himself heavily from step to step down to the ground.
The terrible losses of the Wilderness, and the awful disaster at Petersburg, weighed heavily upon our spirits.
I began to feel more heavily the responsibility resting upon me through the care of his person.
Once in a while Jimmy's bosom became too heavily freighted, and he paused to sigh.
The Dean beamed and Mrs. Baxter purred; Morewood was good-natured, and Fred Wentworth was lightened of a burden of bewilderment which had pressed heavilyon his youthful mind.
The impetus of my blow took me forward and I landed somewhat heavilyon top of him.
I was fortunate enough to secure some gems, although I had to pay very heavily for them; but, when I saw them in the spaces and places allotted to them, I thought they were worth it.
There was a terrible explosion, and for a moment I could not think what had happened, for the wheels of our carriage were smashed, and this caused us to bump heavily on the ground, a motion that shook us both considerably.
Again we lost ground, retiring, before an overwhelming force, some seven miles, to a range of hills where we were heavily entrenched.
A lithe and muscular Algerine seized the end of the rope, and Fielding, his legs literally jerked from under him, fell heavily on the deck.
They had scored heavily up to the present, and they realised the fact.
There she lay, wallowing heavilyin the trough of a furious sea.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "heavily" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
