Their gleaming eyes met for a second; the Norman dealt a hurried forceless blow with his sword, which the Saxon received on his shield; then his ponderous battle-axe came crashing down with irresistible force.
His personal strength was prodigious, and no other man could wield his ponderous sword; in a rough and desperate struggle where strength and valour were everything, and skill of little avail, he had no equal in all Northumbria.
Found your cane," observed Maggie, glancing at the ponderous gold-headed affair in the hand of her old lover.
I have often thought that if the decorous and somewhat ponderous figure of Mr. John Lockwood had invaded his own offices on that particular night, he would have been persuaded of the fact that he was confronting two madmen.
But the thing can't stand like this," protested the ponderous Van Tuyl.
Then he fled, oppressed by the nightmare of the ponderous walls, and, as a souvenir for himself, chiselled the image of the monastery in verse.
And from behind a wall of rock stepped a mighty giant, brandishing a ponderous stone club.
Unobserved, he slipped from the wolf's back, and hid behind a ponderous stone, to watch the proceedings.
And no one ever entered the mine or knew of its depth or latitude except the owner, who took the big key from his belt each workday morning and opened the ponderous wooden door.
The two Indian boatmen pulled each a ponderous blade, but despite their most strenuous efforts, the powerful current carried us down quite half a mile before we landed upon the farther shore--a wide bar of sand and pebbles.
Horsemen ride the ponderous leathern saddles of the country in the fierce heat of the Tierra Caliente as well as upon the highlands of the Tierra Fria.
The bells are made fast in one position, are struck with a ponderous hammer, and distract the stranger with their incessant dissonance.
The giant oaks of the University campus at Berkeley stretch outponderous arms, in wayward fashion, that reach far from the stocky trunk and often rest their mighty elbows on the ground.
Two hammers were now banging rhythmically on the door, and the din of their ponderousblows was almost incessant, and yet the awful scream of anger was not drowned.
She remembered, too, that she had been glad when her mother had taken her out into the sunshine again and from the presence of two ponderous people who had objected strongly to everything her mother had discussed with them.
He had no genius for trifles, but rather a ponderous capacity.
He beamed benevolently on the young man, and thawed out of his habitual reserve into a genial, ponderous frankness.
A steady jarring and pounding had begun that grew into a dull and ponderous roar as the engine rushed forward.
Mighty was the force with which he swung a battle-axe, ponderous enough to have served as a weapon to Coeur de Lion.
There is surely no other church with such a ponderous exterior that is so completely deceptive as to its internal aspect, for St. Mary's contains the most remarkable series of beehive-like galleries that were ever crammed into a parish church.
The carriage passed through this court, and then, going under another arch between two ponderous iron gates, it came into another court, much larger than the first.
He nodded, and would have passed on, but the storekeeper, with a ponderous furred glove, halted him.
She attempted to ridicule him mentally, and called up pictures of his preposterous clothes, the ill-bred waistcoats and ponderous watch chain.
He had on another, still more surprising waistcoat, his watch chain was ponderous with gold; but dust had accumulated unattended on his shoulders, and dimmed the luster of his boots.
Honora sat at a piano with a ponderous ebony case, and picked out Violetta's first aria from Traviata.
Huge screens of wood were made, and these were placed on waggons; the waggons themselves were filled with bags of earth, and a large number of men getting beneath them shoved the ponderous machines forward to the edge of the moat.
This took another half-an-hour, and when John did accost this ponderous hermit of the force he accosted him in broken English.
His legs were excessively short, but short though they were one of them had managed to remain an inch shorter than the other, which in conjunction with a ponderous body made his gait something between a limp and a shamble.
Two ponderousreligious poems have now to be noticed.
They do not mature very rapidly, but some of them grow eventually into great ponderous beasts, and their beef is of prime quality.
They are rather heavy and ponderous in style, though sonorous in expression.
Her mind moved with a ponderous tread, which needed a prose style large and stately as its true medium of expression.
