What is "ponderosity"

Usage examples of "ponderosity".

And it is this ponderosity, with its slow but resistless movement, that gives the tank its power.

Frascati and Tivoli she inflicted her good-humoured ponderosity on diminutive donkeys with a relish which seemed to prove that a passion for scenery, like all our passions, is capable of making the best of us pitiless.

The ponderosity of her qualifications for nobility was sometimes too much even for her mother, and her devotion for the peerage was such, that she would certainly have declined a seat in heaven if offered to her without the promise that it should be in the upper house.

There was a shock of heat and pressure and ponderosity that his body could not discern definitely, and some overwhelming odor that his nostrils missed.

The shrunken body under the flaccid skin slowly took on some semblance of its former ponderosity, the watery eyes slowly lost their dead and vapid stare.

Then there was a rumbling noise within its body which sounded like some unnatural gasoline engine, and it hitched itself around with the ponderosity of a canal boat being warped into a dock and proceeded on its journey to take its appointed place in the battle line.

It was the ponderosity of officialdom, he felt, grown playful, in the face of a passing triviality.

Sterne was a reaction against the seriousness, the ponderosity, of previous prose literature in England.

In style, the boat was massive, broad beamed, steady as the shore itself, without ponderosity or slackness of line.

The officer was a big, burly man, handsome in his way, his ponderosity suggesting a formidable development of muscle rather than fat.

I do this only for that the Oracle has cast its impact on us, and my books suggest the ponderosity of the situation.

His light mood had now swung back to ponderosity, and he wanted to shove his burden of negation onto someone else.

Griggs, who sat here in rheumatic ponderosity, dependent for whatever involved locomotion on the rather alarming alacrity of an impish-looking granddaughter who is elbowing her way through the throng of applicants for places and servants.

It takes them three full days to haul this ponderosity of non-essentials fifteen miles.

MASSENA How long have these prim ponderosities Been rearing up their foreheads to the moon?