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Example sentences for "heavy weight"

  • Lay a heavy weight on the shad, to keep it under the brine.

  • Put it while hot in a strong bag, put a heavy weight upon it, and let it remain till perfectly cold.

  • Put a heavy weight on the beef in order to keep it under the brine.

  • It seemed as if twenty must have passed over her head, each burdening her with a heavy weight of affliction.

  • They did not remove her too heavy weight of care and labor.

  • His wife heard this--indeed her quick ear had detected the opening of the door--and it caused her heart to sink like a heavy weight in her bosom.

  • Turn it into a square bread pan, placing a platter on the top, and a heavy weight on the platter.

  • A heavy weight should be put upon it until it is dry, when it is only possible to discover the mended place by careful observation.

  • Now pour it into a strong muslin bag, press the bag between two flat surfaces, with a heavy weight on top; when cold and solid it can be cut in slices.

  • At all events, it is not clear that it could be made to bear a heavy weight of hypothesis concerning the genesis of cyclothymic psychoses.

  • A man was injured in 1906 by the fall of a heavy weight on his back.

  • Press it into the shape of a brick between two platters, and put a heavy weight over it so as to press hard.

  • Keep covered with a lid while boiling and put a heavy weight on the top of the lid so as not to let the steam escape.

  • Place mold in, let water come up to rim, put a heavy weight on top of mold to keep down, and boil steadily.

  • The cabbage is then covered with a lid, on which a heavy weight is laid.

  • The roller which is immediately over it, is borne down by a heavy weight, suspended from hooks, which are over the pivots of the upper roller.

  • The other qualities become manifest on filing the steel; using it as a chisel for cutting iron; or bending it under a heavy weight.

  • The upper roller C is loaded with a heavy weight, similar to the rollers A; but the other rollers, B and D, are no further loaded than the weight of the rollers.

  • Lay a heavy weight on the shad, to keep it under brine.

  • Keep a heavy weight on the beef in order to keep it under the brine.

  • When quite tender, take it up, put it between 2 dishes with a heavy weight on the top, and when cold, remove the cloth and tape.

  • Boil it for 4 hours, and when it is taken out of the pot, place a heavy weight on the top, the same as for other collared meats.

  • Muscular strength or development; as, to show one's muscle by lifting a heavy weight.

  • By main strength, by sheer strength; as, to lift a heavy weight by main strength.

  • Boil it, and, on taking it out of the pot, put a heavy weight on it to press it.

  • Boil it for 4 hours, and when it is taken out of the pot, place a heavy weight on the top, the same as for other collars.

  • Boil the beef slowly until the bones come out easily, then wrap it in a towel, and put a heavy weight on it till cold.

  • Press them down with a heavy weight, cover the keg closely, and keep it in a cool, dry place.

  • That that anatomy of a horse should so easily, so playfully, handle my heavy weight was a mystery, and is a mystery still.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    fever heat; generally regarded; heavy artillery; heavy body; heavy bombardment; heavy fall; heavy fighting; heavy fire from the; heavy heart; heavy load; heavy machine; heavy ordnance; heavy rain; heavy shower; heavy sigh; heavy weather; heavy weight; little bunch; moral improvement; nine cents; say not; sixty thousand; the plain; thin coating; vastly superior; wild fowl