I think on the whole the bishop was right; for though the service required will not be of a very onerous nature, they will be more so than they were before.
Camenis had happened to mention the fact that Amaldi was in Milan, else she could not have gone for that farewell visit, onerous as she felt it to be.
Here was actually a man who looked upon strict faithfulness in marriage as onerous on both sexes.
Cromwell affected to receive with reluctance the onerous charge of the supreme power and responsibility; but the officers urged its necessity, and the document being soon signed by eighty members, he acceded to it.
It was impossible that such a man could ever curb the fierce and conflicting factions with which he was surrounded; it is most probable that he only longed to be well rid of the whole onerous burden.
Is the United States, under the Hay-Pauncefote Treaty, subjected to more onerous conditions than Turkey and Egypt are under the Suez Canal Treaty?
Under this treaty she was bound by more onerous conditions with regard to a future Panama Canal than she is now under the Hay-Pauncefote Treaty.
Traffic regulations in many parts are exceedingly onerous and often unfair to foreigners.
Custom-house regulations are not onerous in Holland.
The appointment of the committees he had found one of the most difficult andonerous tasks he had ever undertaken.
In the month of August, Mr and Mrs Montefiore set out for a little excursion to Exeter, Bath, and other places, for the purpose of giving Mr Montefiore a short respite from the fatigue entailed upon him by his onerous duties.
He told me that he had filled the onerous post of Secretary of War during the first seven months of the Secession, and I can easily believe that he found it no sinecure.
The charge was an onerous one, requiring constant and severe labor, as well as the exercise of patience, prudence, and good judgment.
Onerous nature of our position in public may--I have forgotten the exact term.
Obliging disposition of relations and friends in private, or onerous nature of position in public--may--impose upon him!
The requisitions of food-stuffs laid on the villages adjoining the factories were said to be less onerous than those affecting the rubber towns.
The Persian kings by their onerous taxation and cruel policy had completely destroyed the loyalty of their western subjects.
Such an opportunity would naturally be improved by the greedy Persian official to impose an onerous tax upon the Jews.
If the farmers of both former and modern ages were destitute because of agriculture's retrogressive character, then why is modern petroleum-based agriculture, as represented by American agriculture, suffering under such onerous debts?
Sherman entered upon his onerous work in the South-West when he was forty-one, and accomplished the march to the sea when he was forty-four.
The applications for place were numerous and perplexing, the daily routine of duty was onerous and exacting, and his pecuniary responsibility to the Government, much exaggerated by his worried mind, constantly alarmed him.
It may, however, be premature to expect that at present such agreements as he suggests would be sanctioned by Parliament, except upon onerous conditions.
Never had his position as magistrate seemed so onerous to him, nor his duties as major-general quite so arduous.
Naturally, Miss Billie, you resent my interference in your career and I deplore the fact that the onerous duty should have fallen upon my shoulders.
Any other poor, neglected, friendless creature from the backwoods would be transported into the seventh heaven at such great good fortune, but she accepts it as a more or less onerous duty.
In the government of National Defence he became vice-president under General Trochu, and minister of foreign affairs, with the onerous task of negotiating peace with victorious Germany.
He retired from the post of clerk to the House of Commons in April 1886, having for fifteen years discharged the onerous duties of the office with as much knowledge and energy as unfailing tact and courtesy.
In a like manner upon Missionaries Chapman and Morgan devolved the onerous task of bringing the turbulent Arawas at Rotorua into line.
