| 单词 | dead weight |
| 例句 | We pulled and tried to tear the dead weight of his body from the waters of the lake. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Hamza’s legs give occasional lurches, strange spasms that ease his dead weight in my arms. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z The movers arrived at eleven that morning, powerfully muscled, red-faced men who grunted officiously over the dead weight of refrigerators and air conditioners. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Kate dragged and strained and lifted the dead weight of the sleeping woman. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z You can change things in later years, but with 93’s your freshman year, you’re going to have a lot of dead weight. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z The line from the notebook felt like a dead weight in my stomach. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z A hundred miles on a wilderness river with a raft, hauling a grown man who would be nothing but dead weight, was impossible. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z Maurice and Robert skewered the carcass, lifted the dead weight, and stood ready. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z Davi stood before her parents in front of their hut, hair disheveled, face swollen, shoulders slumped, arms hanging like dead weights. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The makeshift knife in her bodice felt like a dead weight. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z Bran used the bars sunk into the wall to support as he swung the dead weight of his legs into the basket and through the holes. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z He was mostly dead weight, and I felt his head bounce softly on my shoulder and his body sag against me like a big damp loaf. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z I shed my anger standing there, sloughed off the dead weight of it. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z When I tried sitting up, my head spun and I fell back on the bed, dead weight on my pillows. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z He slips from Al’s grasp, dead weight, and crumples to the floor. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z Her skinny arms were trembling from the dead weight of her son. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z A large, dead weight seemed to fall through Harry’s chest into his stomach. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z I gasp for air and my mouth fills with feathers, feathers down my throat, in my lungs, replacing my blood with dead weight. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z My head no longer felt like my head but like a dead weight on my torso. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z “I’m not terribly surprised. Most folks are nothing but dead weight.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z He was dead weight as she tugged him forward. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z Bran reached up over his head and pulled himself out of his seat, drawing the dead weight of his legs up through the holes in the wicker basket. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Luke grabbed Toby’s arm and tried to pull him in the other direction, but Toby was dead weight. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z As Jimmy navigates eerily silent barrels and skims over monster curls, the landlocked contrivances in his wake become just so much dead weight. Movie Review: ‘Drift,’ a Tale of Two Aspiring Brothers 2013-08-02T02:00:02Z Just as they did on the questions of slavery and the full humanity of women, the Southern Baptists have positioned themselves as moral dead weight, which is a loss for us all. Baptists bank on fire and brimstone 2012-07-11T13:55:00Z “When he had his full leg, he was more handicapped than he is now without his leg. It was like a dead weight,” his mom recalls. Resilience Story: Forget about the leg, just watch him dance 2022-03-07T05:00:00Z “The old Whitney building was just a dead weight, a suffocation,” he wrote, that the museum “had managed to fob off” on the Museum of Modern Art. ‘Friday File’: The Whitney Museum’s 1966 Opening 2016-02-25T05:00:00Z Soon it became dead weight, an annoyance that only left my bag at airport security checks. A Pop Culture Shock After the Trip of a Lifetime 2019-02-15T05:00:00Z But when I finally did get the finances to stay in the city, I struggled with what to do with the dead weight of cultural information I had imprisoned in its Dalston lock-up. Stewart Lee: my life on the shelf 2010-07-31T23:07:00Z My feet slipped and I slid, dead weight, down a few stairs. His infidelity, our infertility: Could I forgive an emotional affair now? 2018-10-19T04:00:00Z To be extraneous, however, is not tantamount to being dead weight. Extended scares: in defense of the two-hour-plus horror movie 2019-07-01T04:00:00Z That could have led somewhere, about human rights in a frontier society, how to deal with such dead weight. Outcasts: series one, episode seven 2011-03-06T23:27:01Z Should you ever wish to understand the phrase “dead weight” in all its gravitational glory, attempt to lift the corpse of a morbidly obese man off of a perilous, wobbly stretcher. Secrets of the crematory: “Hey, come in here and help me get this big guy on the table” 2014-09-27T04:00:00Z “Rare” offers no bangers, but no dead weight, either. Review | Selena Gomez gives as much of herself as she can on ‘Rare’ 2020-01-16T05:00:00Z In many of these works Goya pays particular attention to legs and feet, as load-bearers and as dead weight. Art Review: Spanish Draftsmanship That Leaps Off the Page 2010-10-14T21:52:00Z But he was dead weight, and slid to the floor, where he started convulsing and foaming at the mouth. A Film Festival in Poland Feted His Work. Now He May Face Prison There. 2020-11-23T05:00:00Z As he is lifted “like a dead weight” off the tracks, young people laugh and pelt him with bits of kebab. A Cheeky Novel of Male Vulnerability Hits the U.S. at Last, Timelier Than Ever 2018-01-26T05:00:00Z A claim of chiropractic skill granted him regular audiences with the literally crooked Hearst, but with such a sprawling and flamboyant company already in place, Langrishe and his powdered troupe felt like Deadwood dead weight. How Deadwood went from eye-popping TV to a parade of old hams 2020-03-02T05:00:00Z There are techniques that teach pianists to drop loose arms, almost like dead weights, into thick chords, to let body mass fortify the sound. For Glenn Gould, Form Followed Fingers 2010-09-25T21:04:00Z Universal’s resurrection of key monsters continues after the dead weight of Tom Cruise’s Mummy with this Australia-set latest from Insidious’s Leigh Whannell. The most exciting movies of 2020 – horror 2020-01-01T05:00:00Z The poem “New World,” collected in “Ararat,” is a coruscating portrait of her father as a dead weight on her mother’s psyche. Books of The Times: Louise Glück: ‘Poems 1962-2012’ 2012-11-08T22:39:48Z Kendall paces the hallway, looks at childhood photos of the dead son; we feel the dead weight of guilt and unresolved trauma. Succession recap: season two, episode seven – deliciously twisted as ever 2019-09-22T04:00:00Z There were some investors who wanted it to, but they told Mr. Buffett that he would have to lose the dead weight — the dead weight being the Pulitzer Prize-winning Mr. Wouk. Jimmy Buffett Does Not Live the Jimmy Buffett Lifestyle 2018-02-08T05:00:00Z All return to their hometown bowed under the dead weight of secrets. Review | ‘Ohio’ explains how America got into this dark mess of alienation and frustration 2018-08-23T04:00:00Z In those cases, you are essentially stuck, since the problem is likely bigger than her romantic dead weight. Speak up about loved one’s lover, but don’t expect changes 2014-05-05T04:00:00Z She carries the dead weight of crises beyond her control, but remains unbowed by it. Emily Dickinson is the unlikely hero of our time 2020-12-26T05:00:00Z It contemplates the Soviet state at almost the exact midpoint of its existence, illuminating the faces of those who lived there and at the same time reckoning with the dead weight of history. ‘State Funeral’ Review: Saying Goodbye to Stalin 2021-05-06T04:00:00Z The page almost groans under the dead weight of that pun. Review | From Gourmet to Serious Eats, two food memoirs chronicle the pitfalls of old and new media 2019-06-07T04:00:00Z It functions as the dead weight to balance a looming construction principally built from metal rods, wooden boxes and indigenous plants — palm, cactus, mulberry, nasturtium — common to area roadsides and edible. Abraham Cruzvillegas' deft view of L.A. car culture at Regen Projects 2016-10-10T04:00:00Z He’s just dead weight and they want to cut him. Fear the Walking Dead: season two, episode 13 – Date of Death 2016-09-25T04:00:00Z Ms. Packer is not the slyly malevolent dead weight that Anna Manahan was on Broadway. Critic’s Notebook: Watching ‘Mother Courage’ and ‘Beauty Queen of Leenane’ 2013-08-19T21:54:46Z “Throughout the year there were times where I felt like a fifth-year senior and I’m just hanging around, dead weight. Then there would be moments that felt so good.” Cecily Strong Is Starting a New Conversation 2021-08-04T04:00:00Z In sum, then: During a long night, some dead weight was shed. ArtsBeat Blog: 'X Factor' Watch: Squabbling and Dancing (and Some Singing), All of It Live 2011-10-26T05:30:17Z I’ve already attached all of our restaurant awards to the ankles of the influencers that have haunted my business and tossed them overboard – they have only served as dead weights in this sea of uncertainty. Many restaurants won't make it through Covid-19. Those that do should reinvent the industry | Duncan Welgemoed 2020-05-17T04:00:00Z It’s densely packed, purposeful and efficient; there’s little wasted space or dead weight. TV Tonight: Last Resort 2012-09-27T12:00:08Z Much more shocking and revelatory is the way the author describes his own handling of the “dead weight,” as the men hustled the body bag to the helicopter. Books of The Times: ‘No Easy Day,’ by Mark Owen with Kevin Maurer 2012-09-02T18:35:49Z It’s hard to reconcile the Matt of the first half of the story with the quickly jettisoned dead weight of the second. A Star of Y.A. Literature Returns. This Time, She’s Talking to Adults. 2020-04-14T04:00:00Z The sculptures are made from the dead weight of lead rather than the tactile radiance of traditional bronze. This week's new exhibitions 2010-10-08T23:07:00Z Another relative described it as a “dead weight of a name”. If not my surname or my husband’s, could we call our child after a New Zealand volcano? 2017-05-20T04:00:00Z After 25 seconds of brutal silence, Katherine is shoved off like the dead weight she has become. A “final girl” who gets to get off: “The Witch” proves nothing’s scarier than an unapologetically liberated young woman 2016-03-06T05:00:00Z That bigger idea was to "free art from the dead weight of reality". Malevich: Master of the avant-garde 2014-07-16T04:00:00Z No punches were allowed, but they were going to do everything they could to resist — make themselves dead weight, hang on to furniture, each other. The evolution of Steve-O, where every act is his last 2022-02-04T05:00:00Z In the earliest, from 1917, the year of the October Revolution, a farmworker hoists a sheaf of wheat high above her head as if it were a dead weight she could finally throw off. The Art of Politics, in ‘Agitprop!’ at the Brooklyn Museum 2015-12-17T05:00:00Z “I thought I was dead weight / But you wanna carry me / You wanna carry me home,” she sings on the track, gritty guitar sounds behind her. Singer-songwriter Ella Jane is still finding her voice. And she's totally OK with that 2023-08-25T04:00:00Z Without the helmet, I’d have been gravely injured: a bloody 170 pounds of dead weight dangling from the rope. Mt. Whitney: A perilous trek to the top of California's record snowpack 2023-06-09T04:00:00Z “I’m trying to understand how a person’s dead weight can be on your body and how his head can be suspended above your head?” Danny Masterson lawyer challenges new details in rape story 2023-04-26T04:00:00Z He added that post-tenure review is important because someone who earns that laurel at 28 may “become a dead weight” 30 years later. Florida bills would ban gender studies, limit trans pronouns, erode tenure 2023-03-05T05:00:00Z “He would just come real heavy, and he gets there just crisp — with energy. … There is a pop. It is not just a dead weight. It is just like an explosion.” Alex Ovechkin has spent his entire career playing the explosive hits 2023-02-04T05:00:00Z Perpetual litigation also creates significant "dead weight" in attorneys' fees and court costs, Katyal said. Cancer victims urge court to end J&J bankruptcy roadblock to lawsuits 2022-09-20T04:00:00Z Even in heavy traffic, about 80% of forces on the bridge come from the concrete structure’s own dead weight. West Seattle Bridge reopens Sunday. Here’s what you should know. 2022-09-17T04:00:00Z Still, it, too, doesn't go far enough when it comes to those suffocating under a burden of debt that has long served as a dead weight on the aspirations of millions. Americans are told to make "sacrifices" — but those at the top never have to 2022-09-16T04:00:00Z As rockets propel themselves into space, they typically drop dead weight — shedding “stages” or rocket bodies that contain empty fuel tanks and engines that are no longer useful for launch. Uncontrolled rockets pose unnecessary risk, study finds 2022-07-11T04:00:00Z If your torso, hips and lower body are rigid, it makes it a lot easier to lift them than if they’re dead weight. How to Master the Pull-Up 2022-03-08T05:00:00Z The guy behind him helped by holding up his backpack, but his feet felt like dead weights. He Used to Run Several Times a Week. Now He Could Barely Stand. 2022-01-12T05:00:00Z “I started to feel like I was the dead weight in the family,” Shion told me. The Boy King of YouTube 2022-01-05T05:00:00Z America’s cultural ethnocentrism acts like a dead weight against any cross-cultural understanding. ‘BIPOC’ erases by omission Latinos like me 2021-06-04T04:00:00Z The racial subordination of nearly half the state’s population constituted “an endless economic dead weight which is bound to reduce the fiscal attractiveness of the state’s securities quite apart from the moral issue,” he wrote. What History Can Teach Banks About Making Change 2021-05-01T04:00:00Z Unlike, say, a kite, the human body is not aerodynamically designed and represents dead weight for which the jetpack’s energy source must compensate. U.S. military looking for a few good flying jetpacks 2021-03-21T04:00:00Z And that’s sort of a dead weight loss for society, and probably the biggest worry is how it entrenches the incumbents. How Australia became the test bed for tech regulation 2021-03-16T04:00:00Z “The phrase ‘dead weight’ - it’s a real thing,” she said. Hard work, low pay a challenge for rural Indiana coroner 2021-01-30T05:00:00Z The original rectangular box kites needed internal bracing to keep their shape while flying, which added dead weight. Alexander Graham Bell Goes and Flies a Kite—For Science 2021-01-21T05:00:00Z In traditional aircraft the fuselage is basically dead weight and needs big wings to keep it in the sky. Greener planes of the future... or just pretty plans? 2021-01-07T05:00:00Z As the president’s poll numbers sink, many House and Senate Republicans are mindful of the dead weight that threatens to drag them down, too. Amy Coney Barrett paints memorable picture during Supreme Court hearings 2020-10-15T04:00:00Z With traveling parties severely limited, there’s no room for dead weight. Lakers hold off late surge by Rockets to win and take commanding series lead 2020-09-10T04:00:00Z In an ideal world, you’re absolutely right, you would minimise that dead weight and do everything in incredibly targeted fashion. UK coronavirus live: repaying crisis debt will take 'decades' and higher taxes likely, says IFS 2020-07-09T04:00:00Z Never has there been a better time to get rid of dead weight in your bag. 18 upgrades you can make to your golf bag right now - Golf Digest 2020-04-16T04:00:00Z I was 17 and it was my first time living alone abroad; homesickness came in waves and sat like a dead weight on my chest. Dad has always sent care packages from China. Now it’s face masks instead of snacks | Yang Tian 2020-04-02T04:00:00Z We watch as the woman pulls the ropes; she’s dragging a black body bag and struggles to move the dead weight through dunes. California Sounds: Three new songs that preview the music of summer 2020-02-22T05:00:00Z If the lengths of each plant failed to match exactly what the orchards wanted, they would be discarded, the dead weight taken out of his paycheck. Meet the Long Beach artist fighting for Latinx farmworkers and their legacies 2019-09-12T04:00:00Z The closer you keep dead weight to your body, the more control you have over it and the lighter it feels. Letter of Recommendation: Deadlifting 2019-09-03T04:00:00Z The figures are disputed but the message is clear: fashion is a major polluter, and in an industry that depends on human desire for the new, questions hang over it like a dead weight. Can fashion keep its cool … and help save the planet? 2019-08-31T04:00:00Z Whether you view such projects as a flourish of digital legerdemain, or as a dead weight and an insult to Uncle Walt, is of no consequence. The Winning Excess of “The Beach Bum” 2019-03-29T04:00:00Z Apparently, this team has a little too much dead weight, or LeBron has turned into Albert Pujols, or Magic’s bungled trade deadline took the heart out of the entire team. Letters: Another big one gets away from L.A. 2019-03-01T05:00:00Z Trade was not the only dead weight on Germany’s growth. German Growth Stagnates as Trump Trade War Starts to Bite 2019-02-14T05:00:00Z But the farther you hold the same dead weight from you, the heavier it becomes and the more likely you’ll compensate in dangerous ways. Letter of Recommendation: Deadlifting 2019-09-03T04:00:00Z I had a dead weight hanging off my arm. Bitten by a great white shark: survivors on their near-death experience 2019-01-02T05:00:00Z There is charming humility but also the dead weight of pretense. Leidy Churchman paintings: Split personalities and a shiver down the spine 2018-12-19T05:00:00Z That’s why Wirecutter’s editors log thousands of miles with all kinds of travel gear to separate the truly helpful from the dead weight. Essential Gear for Traveling Solo 2018-10-30T04:00:00Z It must have been a relief to jettison the dead weight and get back to basics, to treat the elegant spareness of Carpenter’s movie as both a fresh jumping-off point and a guiding principle. Review: A nasty, nimble ‘Halloween’ sequel finds this horror franchise in pretty good shape - Los Angeles Times 2018-10-15T04:00:00Z I’ll never be physically stronger than my abuser, whose memory lives inside me like a dead weight. Letter of Recommendation: Deadlifting 2019-09-03T04:00:00Z My shoulders felt like a dead weight imposing itself on the rest of my body. 'Sleepwalking' with India's guerrillas 2018-10-07T04:00:00Z "My one and only symptom was that my arm went numb. It started tingling and it felt like dead weight when I would try to do simple tasks," she said. Sisters diagnosed with rare disease weeks apart recovering from brain surgeries 2018-09-28T04:00:00Z In September, catcher Matt Wieters has hit less badly but is still dead weight. Perspective | The Nationals’ offseason priority? For starters, finding some starters. 2018-09-21T04:00:00Z Comedy that lives on Netflix, he thinks, can’t be dated, and, anyway, political talk is now gratuitous, a dead weight on comic communication. Real Talk with Norm Macdonald 2018-09-03T04:00:00Z Your arms stay long throughout the swing—like a windmill—but act like they're dead weight. Tommy Fleetwood: Through-The-Bag Advice To Hit Any Target - Golf Digest 2018-04-07T04:00:00Z That meant every penny counted, and even a few billion dollars represented dead weight. Tucked into the budget deal, long-awaited gifts to some health-care providers 2018-02-28T05:00:00Z As time goes on, I imagine that their stories will be increasingly framed not by broken barriers but simply by what they built, unencumbered by the dead weights of discrimination. From the Death Desk: Why Most Obituaries Are Still of White Men 2018-03-08T05:00:00Z Mr. Deng was carried inside, unconscious, his body feeling like “dead weight,” the report said. A Partial Win for Prosecutors Who Targeted Fraternity After Student’s Death 2018-01-07T05:00:00Z But beyond these easily exceeded limits, it reverts to just another Prius, albeit one lugging around 300 pounds of dead weight. Toyota Prius Prime: America’s Most Popular Hybrid Lacks Energy 2018-01-05T05:00:00Z Eight underwater rectangular caissons support 70 percent of the bridge’s dead weight and 30 cylindrical caissons hold up the rest. The End for the Tappan Zee Bridge Comes in Pieces, Not With a Boom 2017-12-25T05:00:00Z And I hope they’re treated as kindly as the white guys who are dead weight at their venture funds and who mismanage their companies, but are given third and fourth and fifth chances. When Using 5 Messaging Apps Is Not Enough 2017-11-15T05:00:00Z When you hold a Short Eats roti in your hand, it has serious heft, like dead weight. Review | These delicious finger foods deserve your full attention — no utensils required 2017-10-23T04:00:00Z Anthologies are necessarily mixed bags, in crime fiction as elsewhere, but an astute editor can minimize a book’s dead weight. Two new anthologies probe Dracula, rogues/villains 2017-09-28T04:00:00Z The latest principle to be jettisoned like so much dead weight, or at least the latest one people are talking about: a woman’s right to choose. No 'litmus test' on abortion? Shame on the Democrats who support anti-choice candidates 2017-08-01T04:00:00Z Just before Franklin Pierce took office, in 1853, his son died in a train accident, and Pierce’s Presidency was marked by the “dead weight of hopeless sorrow,” according to his biographer Roy Franklin Nichols. How Trump Could Get Fired 2017-05-01T04:00:00Z Again and again, this change is thwarted by the dead weight of Westminster. Theresa May is dragging the UK under. This time Scotland must cut the rope | George Monbiot 2017-03-15T04:00:00Z “My leg is 10 pounds, and it’s like dragging around 10 pounds of dead weight.” Running up the Empire State Building is exhausting – and hugely rewarding 2017-02-09T05:00:00Z But because her husband needed to work, her eldest son, Cameron, who is now 21, became her caregiver, carrying her “dead weight” around their home and helping her in every way possible. Woman survives cancer, heart failure 2017-01-21T05:00:00Z Bad loans are a dead weight on the Italian economy, because they prevent banks from providing credit needed for businesses to expand. Euro Falls After Italy Says No to Changes Seen as Vital for Growth 2016-12-05T05:00:00Z Now that the Lakers are free of the dead weight of Kobe Bean Bryant’s retirement tour, they have become one of the most fun teams in the league. N.B.A. Schedule: Here’s What to Watch This Week 2016-11-14T05:00:00Z Another theory from our tech reporter: Vine was dead weight. Vine Is Closing Down, and the Internet Can’t Stand It 2016-10-27T04:00:00Z In Pennsylvania, the aide said, Senator Pat Toomey has to "fight off dead weight at the top of the ticket," referring to Trump. Republicans may be on verge of losing Senate majority: aides 2016-10-26T04:00:00Z Weeks later, it still hung from her body like dead weight, flopping wildly when she walked. Hundreds of American kids are suddenly paralyzed, and doctors still don’t know why 2016-10-21T04:00:00Z Initial rounds focused on the truly dead weight—partners who enjoyed the title and prestige but didn’t pull in enough revenue. Law Firms Demote Partners as Pressure Mounts Over Profits 2016-10-10T04:00:00Z This debt became an enormous dead weight in the wake of the financial crisis, dragging companies down as they struggled to keep up with payments. Trying to Turn Back the Clock on Deals Gone Sour 2016-08-23T04:00:00Z The faster we learn to drop our emotional dead weight, the more room we create for something better. The Cost of Holding On 2016-08-22T04:00:00Z Here are five cases of players imported this year to lift teams to the postseason, only to offer dead weight. Jay Bruce and four other midseason pick-ups who are killing their new teams 2016-09-02T04:00:00Z That is second only to the record amount of capacity of 61 million so-called dead weight tons that were scrapped and recycled in 2012. Economic Slump Sends Big Ships to Scrap Heap 2016-08-14T04:00:00Z A bad cox is just dead weight, literally. What does the cox say? Seat No. 9 keeps the rowers in line 2016-08-02T04:00:00Z Dallas police detective Frederick Frazier strained to lift the dead weight of a fallen fellow officer from a hospital gurney and put him into a body bag. Blue Lives Matter: Dallas protesters embrace the force that took bullets for them 2016-07-11T04:00:00Z With no tendons or muscles attached to a prosthetic, the limb is essentially dead weight. Purdue team gives baseball player new foot 2016-05-11T04:00:00Z I’ve never felt like he has that much emotional range, and I think as a character he’s been a literal dead weight on Alicia and the show. The slap heard 'round the world: Dissecting 'The Good Wife' series finale 2016-05-09T04:00:00Z "It doesn't make sense with 1,000-pound animals, but a few pounds can slow one down because it's dead weight," Doug O'Neill said. On Horse Racing: If Donworth wins Big 'Cap, his team will feel like a million 2016-03-09T05:00:00Z Both are seen as dead weight by an establishment dominated by the “creative class.” Evangelical Christians are so sick of losing that they’re voting for Trump 2016-02-26T05:00:00Z But if he’s anything close to the hitter he was afterward, he’s just roster dead weight. The Dodgers and the dilemma with Alex Guerrero 2016-01-08T05:00:00Z As she neared the police cruiser, Ms. Dawson fell, leading the officer to believe that she “was making herself dead weight in an effort to avoid going to jail.” Recordings Add Detail in Death of Woman Forced From Florida Hospital 2016-01-07T05:00:00Z "It was believed by myself that Dawson was just being noncompliant and making herself dead weight in an effort to avoid going to jail," the officer said. Police report reveals officer, medical staff tried to put woman into patrol car after collapse 2015-12-28T05:00:00Z In the series of books the series is based on, Bran Stark is an important piece of a yet to be revealed puzzle, but for now, he’s just dead weight. Spare the rod and spoil the show: Five TV kids who have to go 2015-10-26T04:00:00Z If the surface and core of Enceladus were rigidly connected, there would be too much dead weight and that wobble would be less pronounced. NASA confirms there's a global subsurface ocean on Enceladus 2015-09-15T04:00:00Z His body felt like a “dead weight,” one member later told the police, according to the grand jury report. Defiant Baruch Fraternity Pledge Fought Back in Fatal Hazing, Report Says 2015-09-15T04:00:00Z One of its organizers began digging into ownership records for the decrepit and foreclosed-upon homes that hang like dead weights on many working-class Milwaukee neighborhoods. Bucks’ New Owners Get House-Warming Gift of Public Money 2015-08-14T04:00:00Z Forgiving debts is another way to lighten the dead weight on economies. Trillions Spent but Crises Like Greece’s Persist 2015-06-29T04:00:00Z Yet we harnessed the economic power of what seemed like a dead weight: vacant buildings. Bulldozers aren’t the only answer 2015-05-04T04:00:00Z Could this be what it feels like to make a Marvel film, as you strive to free up the dead weight of all that cod-mythology? To Save the World or to Trash It? 2015-04-27T04:00:00Z Lai took off on the rest of the course, including a body drag with 150 pounds of dead weight, and an obstacle course. Police officer rebounds from injury to pass physical condition test 2015-04-17T04:00:00Z Your job is not some dead weight holding you back. 5 Tips to Chase Your Entrepreneurial Pursuit While Working a Full-Time Job 2015-04-16T04:00:00Z Ultimately you are doing no favors to yourself or to anyone else by allowing dead weight employees, particularly in high paying positions, to remain on your roles. Are You Selling A Business? Read This First 2015-04-10T04:00:00Z Walker has been a dead weight on Wisconsin. Scott Walker Shows Promise Heading Into 2016 2015-01-12T05:00:00Z It was thicker than a man’s arm, a soggy dead weight. The Wreck of the Kulluk 2014-12-30T05:00:00Z They work best from the sidelines; as main characters, they feel like dead weight. The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies — a post-film (and trilogy) chat 2014-12-18T05:00:00Z But otherwise, they’re just dead weight, taking up space, getting in the way, and, oh yeah, draining ever-so-slowly as they sit around unused. 5 Must-Have Gadgets for Every Traveler's Go-Bag 2014-11-25T05:00:00Z Even in childhood, body fat is not dead weight. 'XL Love' Examines the Private Complications of Obesity in Americans’ Relationships 2014-11-24T05:00:00Z Romanian deadlifts involve no actual lifting of dead weight off the ground. The No-Squat Lower Body Workout 2014-11-21T05:00:00Z In commodities, the rise of the dollar was a dead weight on prices. Dollar surges to six-year peak on yen, Tokyo stocks cheer 2014-09-18T04:00:00Z Babolat compensates for the extra grams of the data-generating hardware by removing an equal amount of the “dead weight” that’s added to mass-produced rackets to keep them within tolerance of their listed specs. Can Babolat's Smart Racket Improve Your Tennis Game? 2014-08-28T04:00:00Z Too much focus on digital shopping risks turning their real estate assets into dead weights, like those that are holding Sears and JC Penney down. Target and Walmart Should Seduce Customers Back Into Its Stores 2014-08-18T04:00:00Z “Our proposal was laying there like a dead weight until July 20 when the situation began to change and open up unique opportunities for Russia,” Safarov says. Iran Gives Russia Its Best Chance to Hit Back Against Western Sanctions 2014-08-08T04:00:00Z As the years go by, and become decades, as a VP, your P&L is just full of dead weight. Is Microsoft's Layoff A One-Off Case Or Are There Other Major Tech Companies Likely To Follow Suit? 2014-07-21T04:00:00Z Today, Florida’s economy is on the rise again, shaking off the dead weight of a housing bust that hit Florida harder than almost any other state in the country. A Bet on Florida Pays Off 2014-05-26T04:00:00Z That’s another form of revolution that you find across time where the civilization or the ancien regime falls apart of its own dead weight. Our sad “Mad Men” revolution: How consumerism co-opted rebellion 2014-05-04T11:00:00Z They include the priest Christopher Clavius and his mathematical work on the new Gregorian calendar, and the relentless Jesuit censors and the dead weight they finally succeeded in placing on Italian mathematics by proscribing infinitesimals. Books: ‘Infinitesimal,’ Looks at an Historic Math Battle 2014-04-07T20:44:24Z One of Li–S's main advantages, says Cairns, is that it gets rid of the “dead weight” in a Li-ion battery. The rechargeable revolution: A better battery 2014-03-05T18:50:39.954Z It’s also the force that allows your car to stop at all: Without friction, brakes would be dead weight. Why Friction Is a Drag: New Findings 2013-09-24T21:45:10.800Z About 350 police and border patrol officials were combing through the ship, which has a dead weight of some 14,000 tonnes. Panama calls in U.N. to inspect North Korean arms ship 2013-07-18T01:28:34Z "This decision is bad news for Canada, because allowing yet more concentration in our media market will act as a dead weight on our economy," consumer advocacy group OpenMedia.ca said in statement. UPDATE 2-Canada's BCE wins regulatory approval for C$3 bln Astral bid 2013-06-27T22:18:45Z But Mr. Bullard warned that Europe was acting as a dead weight on the global economy. E.C.B. Keeps Interest Rates Unchanged in Hopes for Recovery 2013-06-06T12:25:37Z Second, a "good" bank, without the dead weight of bad assets, might be better equipped to lend to small businesses with enthusiasm. Split RBS into a good and bad bank? The idea needs proper examination 2013-06-04T22:00:39Z I think the dead weight of retail is what holds the industry back, not used games. Study: Without Used Games Publishers Would Need To Slash Prices To Stay Afloat 2013-05-30T20:42:32Z Compare them with, say, the local farmers at the Union Square Greenmarket, whose light trucks and vans typically haul more dead weight—farm-stand, vehicle and driver—than produce. The Green in Online Grocery Shopping 2013-04-30T04:30:00Z I wouldn’t mind playing with one of these, but any more than that and you’re risking opening hands with unplayable dead weight. Return to Ravnica: Evaluating Golgari 2012-09-27T06:39:02Z Silence like a dead weight seemed to fall upon the room. Mrs. Thompson A Novel 2012-04-25T02:01:10.557Z I'm half crazy With the dead weight of you! Punch, or the London Charivari, December 2, 1893 2012-04-23T02:00:33.287Z What lesser good have they wrought who have come in later times to lighten the dead weight of our overweighted lives? A Breeze from the Woods, 2nd Ed. 2012-04-23T02:00:29.820Z By a miracle, it boiled far away to right and left, but rolled, a grey-dappled dead weight, under the boat. Mushroom Town 2012-04-21T02:00:25.923Z In times of trouble or disturbance on the border, its possession would prove a positive source of weakness, a dead weight upon our free action. The Contemporary Review, Volume 36, October 1879 2012-04-18T02:00:17.060Z As in Spain there was an exhaustive depletion of intellectual force, so in Italy the human mind, during late centuries, has been crushed under a dead weight of priests. Caricature and Other Comic Art in all Times and many Lands. 2012-04-04T02:00:59.277Z Cramped and aching Constance kept her place, Damaris's dead weight upon her arm, till, after a long time, her father returned to her with a moved face. A Pilgrim Maid A Story of Plymouth Colony in 1620 2012-04-02T02:00:24.090Z He was always met by the supposed practical authority of the great bulk of the military members and by the dead weight of aristocratic influence and vested interests. Modern Leaders: Being a Series of Biographical Sketches 2012-04-01T02:00:10.050Z She afterwards became calmer, and while she made no attempt to get off his back, he had her full dead weight to carry. The Story of the Great Fire in St. John, N.B., June 20th, 1877 2012-03-27T02:00:21.067Z There are two kinds of safety valves, the dead weight and the spring loaded. Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II 2012-03-23T02:00:33.140Z How chill those words of Mrs. Elrington's fell, like a dead weight on his heart, and had been ringing in his ears ever since. It May Be True, Vol. III (of III) 2012-03-20T02:00:14.013Z In any case of persecution, money hangs like a dead weight about a man; and we never feel gold so heavy as when we endeavour to make off with it. ?sop's Fables, Embellished with One Hundred and Eleven Emblematical Devices. 2012-03-19T02:00:22.807Z We may not be a mere spectator of the struggle for existence even if we will; the dead weight of inaction is itself a force opposed to other force. A Review of the Systems of Ethics Founded on the Theory of Evolution 2012-03-17T02:01:00.033Z Under the dead weight of depression which had succeeded to passion, curiosity stirred faintly in her. Starvecrow Farm 2012-03-15T02:00:29.617Z A lock up safety valve is a dead weight safety valve, the top of whose spindle is provided with a cast iron cap or bonnet with two handles on. Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II 2012-03-23T02:00:33.140Z Presently he fainted and hung a dead weight on her arm. Woven with the Ship A Novel of 1865 2012-03-12T03:00:26.883Z The high rates of British postage, down to 1840, and which were adjusted much on the same scale as ours, were a dead weight on correspondence. Sketches of Reforms and Reformers, of Great Britain and Ireland 2012-03-12T03:00:20.310Z In the dead chicken, those ligaments still want to return to their natural, unstretched position, but the dead weight of the bird fights against it. Archaeopteryx Fossils Appear Twisted, but Not Because of Agony 2012-03-05T23:24:35Z Then Mr. Swainson appeared, leading by a strong chain a brindled bull-dog, of the most ferocious description and about sixty pounds dead weight. Laid up in Lavender 2012-02-28T03:00:28.157Z But silence still wrapped all, and he was gathering his strength to lift the dead weight, when a sound caught his ear, and he raised himself. Ovington's Bank 2012-02-28T03:00:25.267Z "I don't know how much it's worth, but it must be several thousands, on dead weight." The Chase of the Golden Plate 2012-02-27T03:00:13.060Z I felt a dead weight at my line. Nooks and Corners of the New England Coast 2012-02-22T03:00:25.113Z There was less lifting of dead weight on the blast-furnace jobs than on the open-hearth. Steel The Diary of a Furnace Worker 2012-02-21T03:00:18.360Z She had lain some hours in the deep sleep of exhaustion; and longer in a heavy doze, conscious of the dead weight of anxiety, yet resting in body. The Abbess Of Vlaye 2012-02-19T03:00:15.523Z Then, as thought swiftly followed thought in tumultuous wave, it fell on her with a numb dead weight of misgiving, how much this discovery might mean to her. The Maid of Honour, Vol. 1 (of 3) A Tale of the Dark Days of France 2012-02-15T03:00:38.533Z The arrogance which the Koran inculcates and fosters is a dead weight on progress. Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan, Volume II (of 2) Including a Summer in the Upper Karun Region and a Visit to the Nestorian Rayahs 2012-02-12T03:00:11.843Z But his head and shoulders were a dead weight in my arms, and there was an awful look upon his face, as the gaslight fell upon it. The Story of Charles Strange Vol. 2 (of 3) A Novel 2012-01-22T03:00:21.457Z From the very first day he began saving money to pay off that dead weight of five hundred pounds. Strange Stories 2012-01-16T03:00:05.067Z That I won't—with the dead weight of a wasted day on me. The White Peacock 2012-01-14T03:00:21.627Z Only a great artist could make one feel, by such simple means, the strain of the dead weight upon the men's arms. The Story of Assisi 2012-01-14T03:00:18.710Z Rational truths not born of religious feeling would be in dogmatics so many dead weights and heterogeneous elements, which would lead to the greatest incoherence. Outlines of a Philosophy of Religion based on Psychology and History 2012-01-01T03:00:07.953Z Adapted for propelling light canoes on the rivers, it is ineffective against the dead weight of the heavy thamakau. The Fijians A Study of the Decay of Custom 2011-12-30T03:00:25.917Z “Go,” she said, pointing to the room beyond, then sank fainting, a dead weight in his arms. The Wolves of God And Other Fey Stories 2011-12-17T03:00:15.447Z The vessels involved were the tanker Charleston and the cargo vessel Harvest Sun, both about 50,000 tons dead weight and about 600 feet long, the Coast Guard said. Collision shuts Houston Ship Channel indefinitely 2011-12-13T16:47:38Z A great joy swept over her, lifting a dull dead weight from her heart. The Outcaste 2011-12-12T03:00:25.380Z They have given up such pretensions now, and have become mostly mild, muddled folk, with no Lucretian boldness, but merely some spiteful complaints of the “dead weight that lies on the intellects of mankind”! Thoughts Out of Season (Part II) 2011-12-07T03:00:18.847Z They were borne down by the dead weight of numbers, and the traditional authority of the Holy See. Letters of Lord Acton To Mary, Daughter of the Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone 2011-12-06T03:00:20.687Z Exclusive privileges of trade a dead weight upon all these exertions both in Europe and America, ib. An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations 2011-12-05T03:00:41.403Z A man just well enough to be able to be about, and too sick to do as he has been used to, is a dead weight on a woman’s hands, I can tell you. Eunice 2011-12-05T03:00:40.560Z The tears were dried, the goods enjoyed again; but, while Christianity has certainly lightened the dead weight of such sorrows, the anguish of the first blow remains what it was all those dim centuries ago. From the Oak to the Olive A Plain record of a Pleasant Journey 2011-11-26T03:00:12.337Z Adelaide knew instinctively that the dead weight in her arms was not that of a living man. The World Masters 2011-11-18T03:00:31.543Z Packed with dead weight, it also has never felt this empty. Hitler Dangles as Cattelan Gives Us the Middle Finger: Review 2011-11-11T19:54:47Z Moreover, it cleared the prospect for him, and delivered him from the company of one who could only prove a dead weight. Notes on the Book of Genesis 2011-11-05T02:00:10.317Z Lightly built though she was, her dead weight was far more than Elizabeth could hope to sustain, hanging on to the rope, and with no one but Mary to assist from above. The Girl Crusoes A Story of the South Seas 2011-11-03T02:00:16.647Z But for him ... the immense dead weight of life pressed intolerably hard. The Open Question a tale of two temperaments 2011-10-25T02:00:22.173Z This is meant as an abdominal exercise, with the legs serving as dead weight. Some exercises yield more damage than progress 2011-10-04T20:15:03Z The dead weight of the water-logged craft caused the stout painter to snap like pack-thread, and the next instant the tender was lost to view in the turmoil of foaming water. The Nameless Island A Story of some Modern Robinson Crusoes 2011-10-08T02:00:20.880Z I do not see how future ages are to stagger onward under all this dead weight, with the additions that will be continually made to it.—II. Our Old Home, Vol. 2 Annotated with Passages from the Author's Notebook 2011-10-06T02:00:33.843Z The picket-boat, having a dead weight of fifteen tons exclusive of the crew, was capable of dealing a heavy blow, but Crosthwaite realized that that would mean her own destruction. The Fight for Constantinople A Story of the Gallipoli Peninsula 2011-10-04T02:00:17.837Z Her excitement had died down, leaving for the moment a dead weight of wretchedness. The Open Question a tale of two temperaments 2011-10-25T02:00:22.173Z We got rid of some dead weight earlier this week, so it made it a lot easier. NASCAR: Tony Stewart shakes off struggles, surges to Chase lead 2011-10-02T01:03:03Z Stewart hinted last week at New Hampshire that his mind was cleared somewhat with cryptic comments about dumping some "dead weight." Stewart in hunt for 3rd straight Chase win 2011-09-30T21:28:41Z "There's a lot of guys downstairs now that we're nicknaming 'dead weight' just for the fun of it," he said. Grubb making all the right calls for Stewart 2011-09-28T19:05:09Z Then there's Stewart, the sudden points leader after wins in the first two Chase races, who cryptically credited the removal of some "dead weight" as reason for his surge. Is 2 races too soon to count Johnson out of hunt? 2011-09-26T22:06:12Z "We got rid of some dead weight earlier this week, so, it's made it a lot easier It's been a big weight lifted off our shoulders," he said, without explanation. Stewart wins at New Hampshire 2011-09-25T22:09:02Z Hard as steel, it delivered a stinging, crunching blow between Jepson’s eyes, and the big brute dropped to 274 the floor like a dead weight. The Gray Phantom's Return 2011-09-22T02:00:27.150Z The dead weight shall be provided by the committee, and shall be placed in the boat and removed from it by a person appointed for that purpose. Boating 2011-09-21T02:00:35.453Z Stewart ignited some controversy at New Hampshire with cryptic comments about how he got rid of some "dead weight" earlier in the week. Grubb making all the right calls for Stewart 2011-09-28T19:05:09Z Notwithstanding, therefore, her abilities and her industry, she had been uniformly considered as a dead weight to the business, and to the house. The Wanderer (Volume 3 of 5) or, Female Difficulties 2011-09-17T02:00:28.670Z Our spirits mounted, released from the dead weight of heat and silence. The Sea and the Jungle 2011-08-30T02:00:30.350Z The first 20 minutes or so — the college and big-city montage — are basically dead weight. ArtsBeat Blog: New York Fringe Festival Report: 'Cow Play' 2011-08-24T13:37:05Z Deficiencies must be made up by dead weight carried on the coxswain’s thwart. Boating 2011-09-21T02:00:35.453Z Every possible article of equipment was made to do double service; not an ounce of dead weight was carried which could be dispensed with. My Attainment of the Pole 2011-08-05T02:00:54.720Z I think at that moment Hugh could have killed him, but he gave me Alida as bidden, and bending he shouldered the dead weight of the wounded man. A Tatter of Scarlet Adventurous Episodes of the Commune in the Midi 1871 2011-08-04T02:00:19.957Z Stanley’s steam launch, however, was made heavy and unsuitable by the dead weight of its engine and machinery, to which for a long run would of course be added heavy clumsy coal by the ton. George Alfred Henty The Story of an Active Life 2011-07-31T02:00:08.463Z But when your bench averages 11.3 points, that becomes a lot of dead weight for the starters to carry through the rest of the summer. Take Two: A different spin on sports from The Seattle Times staff 2011-07-21T20:50:05Z Moreover, one in a faint is a dead weight. A Book of Ghosts 2011-07-08T02:00:19.203Z In this "Jesup" sledge there is a dead weight of over fifty pounds of useless wood. My Attainment of the Pole 2011-08-05T02:00:54.720Z Listening, her heart had thrilled to a strange, wild venture of a hope, only to drop it, a dead weight, as she thought of her relatives. The Red Derelict 2011-07-05T02:00:30.143Z He had not counted on the feminine weakness of fainting, and, with the dead weight of the swooning girl upon his arm, there was still a difficulty as to his future movements. The White Squaw 2011-07-05T02:00:26.437Z “Truscott, man, where are you hit?” is the letter’s hurried inquiry; but as he lifts the other’s head he is answered, for it lies a dead weight in his hand. The Fire Trumpet A Romance of the Cape Frontier 2011-07-05T02:00:23.353Z In the Government mail business they carry nineteen tons of dead weight for each ton of paying weight. The Mail Pay on the Burlington Railroad 2011-06-21T02:00:28.507Z Another is the great amount of dead weight which the axes must carry; for the mirror, instead of helping to counterpoise the upper end of the tube, must itself be counterpoised. Photographs of Nebul? and Clusters Made with the Crossley Reflector 2011-06-21T02:00:27.500Z Thus the defective, like an inert mass, become a dead weight which encumbers the school. Mentally Defective Children 2011-06-19T02:00:24.963Z In relief and pity, she essayed to take the girl up in her arms and carry her to the bed, but found the dead weight too great. Linda Lee, Incorporated A Novel 2011-06-19T02:00:18.633Z Man is a gregarious animal, and the burthen of one’s own presence galls as only those burthens do which carry as dead weight the broken shackles of one of Nature’s disregarded laws. Between Sun and Sand A Tale of an African Desert 2011-06-15T02:00:16.390Z The road seemed interminable, while his burden hung a dead weight in his arms, and grew heavier every step he took. The Squire's Daughter 2011-06-13T02:00:25.710Z His arm hung a dead weight in the surgeons' grip as they laid it back by his side on the cot. The Old Blood 2011-06-13T02:00:22.897Z We have seen that, in the latter, the defective is a dead weight, and the ill-balanced is a nuisance. Mentally Defective Children 2011-06-19T02:00:24.963Z The 105,846 dead weight ton MV Zirku was captured on March 28 on its way to Singapore from Sudan with a crew of 29. Somali pirates free Kuwaiti oil tanker 2011-06-11T10:48:49Z But the monstrous beast was not a dead weight, rather she enveloped and oppressed the men with her powerful and elastic muscles, and clawed with her two vast talons at the breast of her mount. The Poems and Prose Poems of Charles Baudelaire with an Introductory Preface by James Huneker 2011-06-01T02:00:22.477Z His face had a pitiful expression, as if he would fain tender some help; but young Trevelyan himself hung like a dead weight, and seemed unconscious of what was befalling him. Latitude 19 degree A Romance of the West Indies in the Year of Our Lord Eighteen Hundred and Twenty 2011-05-30T02:00:18.047Z Jim yielded limply to the procedure—a dead weight in the other's grasp. The Shooting of Dan McGrew, A Novel Based on the Famous Poem of Robert Service 2011-05-28T02:00:24.557Z I, too, tried to rise with all that dead weight dragging at my feet. The Letters of Ambrose Bierce With a Memoir by George Sterling 2011-05-26T02:00:19.673Z "Oh—yes—I remember," and though she closed her eyes again, she no longer lay a dead weight against Clare's arm. Brenda's Ward A Sequel to 'Amy in Acadia' 2011-05-20T02:00:37.457Z There is a dead weight that now sits permanently in my chest.” Teens Who Admitted to Bullying Phoebe Prince Sentenced 2011-05-06T18:10:00Z The Bo's'n had to row the whole dead weight. Latitude 19 degree A Romance of the West Indies in the Year of Our Lord Eighteen Hundred and Twenty 2011-05-30T02:00:18.047Z The dead weight that’s the hardest to recognize and drop, though, is a philosophy that no longer matches the reality of the business or its customers. The 5 Questions Business Owners Should Be Asking 2011-04-15T20:29:42Z Her face was white as death, her eyes were closed, she hung a dead weight upon his arm—and yet, Stewart told himself, she could not have drowned in so short a time. The Girl from Alsace A Romance of the Great War, Originally Published under the Title of Little Comrade 2011-04-23T02:00:05.477Z They therefore make bad husbands, unhappy neighbors, and are worse than a dead weight in society. War Inconsistent with the Religion of Jesus Christ 2011-04-18T02:00:09.590Z For twenty strides VB sat there, inert, a dead weight, while grief came into his throat, into his vision, deadening his mind. I Conquered 2011-04-15T02:00:19.800Z To the Admiral, "A dead weight, sir, a very dead weight." Latitude 19 degree A Romance of the West Indies in the Year of Our Lord Eighteen Hundred and Twenty 2011-05-30T02:00:18.047Z This is dead weight the business is fighting against to stay afloat. The 5 Questions Business Owners Should Be Asking 2011-04-15T20:29:42Z "Only the distinction between a side full of confidence, Manchester United, and another dragging a dead weight, ." Champions League press reaction: 'Ancelotti clung to the wrong lifeboat' 2011-04-13T12:30:49Z To seize and loft an unconscious man of Harford’s build was difficulty multiplied by his dead weight of some hundred-seventy pounds. Lonesome Town 2011-04-12T02:00:24.580Z The man had lain in his arms a dead weight. She's All the World to Me 2011-04-09T02:00:16.923Z They counteract in some measure what may be regarded as the dead weight of the wing, and are especially useful in giving it continuous play. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 5 "Fleury, Claude" to "Foraker" 2011-04-03T02:00:20.883Z And as to the other plan you mention, you forget how it would humiliate him—that his writings should be supposed to be dead weight! Leigh Hunt's Relations with Byron, Shelley and Keats 2011-04-02T02:00:11.477Z From their midst came a deep groan and the thud of a dead weight falling. At Large 2011-03-27T02:00:14.907Z He did not try to analyze his feelings, but there was a dead weight at his heart, a sorrow heavier than the natural regret at parting. Mr. Claghorn's Daughter 2011-03-03T03:00:53.083Z No; he is invigorated and inspirited by his leader in order that he may exert himself, for he cannot proceed in quiescence, he cannot be carried like a dead weight. The Letters of Anne Gilchrist and Walt Whitman 2011-02-26T03:00:49.377Z They bound up his wounds as best they could, and, raising him upon their shoulders, bore the dead weight of unconscious matter into Acadie. The Plowshare and the Sword A Tale of Old Quebec 2011-02-24T03:01:05.143Z Poor Sicily, overridden by barons and priests, lagged behind, a prey to the feudal system, and so unsusceptible to new ideas that the reforming prime minister could not budge the dead weight of custom. A Short History of Italy (476-1900) 2011-02-24T03:01:00.630Z If any city reader wishes an illustration of this fact, let him observe how the iron verandah upon the Collamore House redeems the otherwise bald, dead weight of that building. The International Monthly, Volume 5, No. 4, April, 1852 2011-02-23T03:00:33.760Z It is a crude production, all the same; the writer's artistic gift seems handicapped by a dead weight of moral platitudes and high falutin, and even mysticism. The Grandchildren of the Ghetto 2011-02-12T03:00:35.663Z He did not reply immediately; leisurely inspecting her from head to foot, as she stood bent, her eyes lying like a dead weight on his, patting and curling his yellow whiskers meanwhile. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 68, June, 1863 2011-02-11T03:00:30.570Z The main function of the sled is to carry the dead weight, the burdens of tent-covers, blankets, food, and the like. On Canada's Frontier Sketches of History, Sport, and Adventure and of the Indians, Missionaries, Fur-traders, and Newer Settlers of Western Canada 2011-02-09T03:00:51.093Z They hang round you like a dead weight, and you never get on at all. Here and Hereafter 2011-02-07T03:00:23.580Z And she has been known to refer to the Major, still in the tone of cheerful resignation and with her emphasizing tap of the fan, as "a dead weight round her neck." A Lame Dog's Diary 2011-02-04T03:00:23.707Z There's many a man wouldn't sail so straight about his day's work if there wasn't some dead weight o' that sort at his heart to steady him.' Vestigia Vol. II. 2011-02-04T03:00:22.950Z The dead weight of eight men proved to be a little too much for the regular team, although the latter was never pulled off the cleats. Frank Merriwell's Return to Yale 2011-02-03T03:00:10.883Z Each animal was rated to carry a burden of 400 pounds of dead weight, and to require three quarts of meal three times a day. On Canada's Frontier Sketches of History, Sport, and Adventure and of the Indians, Missionaries, Fur-traders, and Newer Settlers of Western Canada 2011-02-09T03:00:51.093Z According the website marinetraffic.com, the Beluga Nomination is 9,775 dead weight tons and flies the flag of Antigua and Barbuda. Somali pirates seize German ship off Seychelles 2011-01-25T19:48:18Z But 2010 ended on an upbeat note for conventional banks as the dead weight of bad loans became less of a burden. Goldman Sachs ends difficult year with 52 percent earnings decline in 4th quarter 2011-01-20T01:56:02Z She suddenly fell a dead weight upon his arm, and almost as quickly she recovered herself. The Golden Web 2011-01-15T03:00:38.007Z Bruce and his men had simply resisted the Harvard tug like so much dead weight, and the instant that the Yale anchor saw that the Harvard team had come to rest lie exclaimed: "Pull!" Frank Merriwell's Return to Yale 2011-02-03T03:00:10.883Z The dead weight shall be provided by the Committee, and shall be placed in the boat and removed from it by a person appointed for that purpose. Rowing 2011-01-15T03:00:32.313Z At the top of the stairs she became a dead weight on her companion's arms. The Camp Fire Girls in After Years 2011-01-13T03:01:12.303Z Overhead the falcon closed in its wings and fell like a dead weight out of the clouds. Moonshine & Clover 2011-01-06T03:00:46.940Z Such a dead weight in the centre of the ship would cause her to roll fearfully. The Story of the Atlantic Telegraph 2010-12-29T03:00:29.577Z Hugo was a genius, and even Hugo was almost unequal to saving "Notre Dame de Paris" from the dead weight of architectural detail which cumbered its spirit. Romantic Spain A Record of Personal Experiences (Vol. I) 2010-12-27T03:00:17.990Z Deficiencies must be made up by dead weight carried on the coxswain's thwart. Rowing 2011-01-15T03:00:32.313Z The ranger felt her become a dead weight, at the same moment that a stream of hot blood poured over his hand. The Frontier Angel A Romance of Kentucky Rangers' Life 2010-12-20T17:12:29.603Z "If companies have to comply with two regulations, but the protection they give consumers is the same, it's a dead weight loss," an EU official said, speaking on condition of anonymity. U.S. to hold pivotal trade talks with China and then EU 2010-12-12T14:08:00Z This made a dead weight of as many hundred tons, which rendered her in rough weather almost unmanageable. The Story of the Atlantic Telegraph 2010-12-29T03:00:29.577Z He was just kind of lifeless, just dead weight.” A Shark Attacks, and the Wave Turns Red 2010-10-23T23:52:00Z I fear that the corruption of the public sphere has become so overwhelming, and the public's helpless acceptance such a dead weight for reform, that no amount of disclosure will help. Anonymous cowards are buying the 2010 election 2010-10-18T22:15:00Z That's a dead weight around the economy's throat but US policymakers mistakenly believe that the housing market's distress is a symptom and not a cause. Ben Bernanke calls for help to revive the stuttering US economy 2010-08-27T23:06:00Z Sometimes it's worth the extra investment to get rid of dead weight. When the Boss Hires His Sister 2010-07-09T17:58:00Z Winning Euro 2008 did not just change Spain's history, it changed their future too, removing a dead weight. World Cup 2010: Disaster looms but Spain refuse to change their style 2010-06-25T08:00:00Z But as soon as the birds are done eating, their livers and intestines become dead weight. Birds That Migrate Thousands of Miles With Nary a Stop 2010-05-24T22:56:00Z Like many pundits in Greece, Papahelas points to the dead weight of the public sector as the single biggest factor dragging Greece down, making the government deficit impossible to deal with, and killing enterprise. Greek debt crisis: death and destruction in Athens 2010-05-06T19:32:00Z But now, the Cubs' roster is full of dead weight. Alfonso Soriano hasn't given Chicago Cubs what they paid for 2010-03-17T04:00:00Z With their other things this made a dead weight of about one hundred and eighty pounds per sled. Canadian Wilds Tells About the Hudson's Bay Company, Northern Indians and Their Modes of Hunting, Trapping, Etc. He felt as if a dead weight had fallen from them. The Undying Past This town has been a dead weight upon us. Familiar Letters of John Adams and His Wife Abigail Adams During the Revolution with a Memoir of Mrs. Adams She twisted her hands in her old quick, nervous way, and stiffened every muscle as if to keep off a dead weight that was crushing down upon her. The Reclaimers Then the stretching tide came lapping and fawning, soon to sway the dead weight she held. The Unknown Sea She lifted his arm and let it fall—it dropped a dead weight on to the tiled floor. Beggars on Horseback He asked himself, in astonishment, how he could all these years have borne so carelessly the terrible dead weight on his mind, without doing violence to the world or going mad. The Undying Past It would be a dead weight upon the enemy. Familiar Letters of John Adams and His Wife Abigail Adams During the Revolution with a Memoir of Mrs. Adams The dead weight of inheritance, always a psychological fascination for Couperus, becomes doubly fascinating when one generation after another inherits an undwindling legacy of divine, ironic whim. Majesty A Novel The shallowing run of the tide drove her to resign the dead weight that exceeded her strength to uphold. The Unknown Sea There was not only the dead weight of numbers against him, but there was also the quick weight of superior intellect. The Life of Yakoob Beg Athalik Ghazi, and Badaulet; Ameer of Kashgar Even with the two sandbags overboard and lightened of fifty pounds dead weight, the balloon descended suddenly. A Republic Without a President and Other Stories And he plucked Garland from his footing easily, for the latter was now little more than dead weight, and threw him on his back into the running ditch. The Land of Strong Men The dead weight in my arms was forcing me down, and my feeble strokes were no longer availing. Kastle Krags A Story of Mystery She drove homewards with a soft smile upon her lips, and the dead weight lifted from her heart. The Missioner But since they mostly date from the nineteenth century, the American libraries are more modern, and contain less dead weight in the way of unused folios. The Library and Society Reprints of Papers and Addresses She was a magnificent dead weight; there was something positive and portentous in her quietude. The Spoils of Poynton The title of Living Buddha seemed to be a dead weight upon this poor young man. Travels in Tartary, Thibet, and China During the years 1844-5-6 Volume 2 He not only regarded him as an old fogy, a vain old fogy, but as a dead weight upon the Star. Hempfield A Novel We can't afford to have any dead weights dragging after us now. No Moss The Career of a Rolling Stone His left arm was already numb from the girl's dead weight. By Right of Conquest A Novel To drag ourselves along murmuring, doubting, making difficulties, a mere dead weight on our Leader, this is not to follow as He desires to be followed. The Expositor's Bible: The Gospel of St. John, Vol. I The sand-bag is dead weight, and the man is live weight. Careers of Danger and Daring His arms seemed strangely weary ... as if he had been carrying a dead weight. Thirty The precious metals gained preference as a universal money commodity, but still uncoined and exchanged merely by dead weight. The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State But now they were not careful how they carried him, but went forward merely as though bearing a dead weight. The Blind Man's Eyes She became oppressed by the dead weight of futurity. Carnival His breath came short as she spoke, and there fell a stone upon his heart, which nevermore departed, but lay there like a dead weight. Edelweiss A Story Wickwire hung a dead weight in our arms, but we propped him on the jagged sill and scrambled after, any fashion. Where the Pavement Ends She made no response, and feeling her a dead weight he found that as he held her she had fainted away. Fairfax and His Pride Across my chest the limb of the tree was a dead weight that crushed me. The Plotters He went to bed early, with a view to a golf match on the morrow, and was wakened by a dead weight upon his shins. Jacob's Ladder He wrote to all his former customers that it was not possible to give either the coal or the iron a farthing cheaper, not if it hung round his neck as a dead weight. Black Diamonds There was a dead weight of honesty and conviction in what he said, and it was this, perhaps, that chiefly gave him his command over an audience. Reminiscences, 1819-1899 It was simply a struggle of tense muscle against an immensely heavy dead weight. Legends of Ma-ui—a demi god of Polynesia, and of his mother Hina As head girl, Lorraine had, of course, the whip hand at The Gables, but in every fresh scheme she found her cousin a dead weight and an impediment. The Head Girl at the Gables We are a drawback—a dead weight on the cause of bleeding humanity.' Discussion on American Slavery With the dead weight of the kill swinging from the branch between Korgul and Torbat, the four Cro-Magnon hunters set out for the distant caves of their tribe. Warrior of the Dawn It is a dead weight, retarding the development and the triumph of the spirit; its natural functions are tainted with evil and should be ignored and mortified so far as necessity will permit. Women of Early Christianity With a suddenly formed resolution, she clasped her arms about Grace and with considerable difficulty—for Grace was now a dead weight—dragged the unconscious girl from her berth into the aisle. The Automobile Girls at Chicago or, Winning Out Against Heavy Odds Puffy struggled onward under the almost dead weight of his boss. Queen of the Flaming Diamond It would be next to an impossibility to make it by swimming, with but one arm free, and further handicapped by the dead weight of the woman. The Destroying Angel Lead weights on certain links of the chains’ upper or return sections counterbalanced most of the car’s dead weight. Elevator Systems of the Eiffel Tower, 1889 As a dead weight she was easier to handle. Astounding Stories, June, 1931 The states who have had such councils have found them useless, and complain of them as a dead weight. Essays on the Constitution of the United States This Gerty, Sullivan, will be a dead weight upon your hands—a constant drawback to all your efforts to attain fashionable society, in which she cannot be fitted to shine. The Lamplighter Round steel wire-ropes, about 2 in. in diameter, are Cage. now commonly used; but in very deep pits they are sometimes tapered in section to reduce the dead weight lifted. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 5 "Clervaux" to "Cockade" The enlarged experience of the child will make some meaning inhere in everything which is brought to him, so that it is not the dead weight it would have been earlier. Training the Teacher He was walkin' slow, as if his feet was a dead weight, and when he took hold o' the door he stopped a minute, lookin' over the valley kind o' wishful and hopeless. Stories of the Foot-hills A snapper puts up no more fight than a catfish and the biggest job is to haul out his dead weight once you've got him surfaced. To Remember Charlie By As any seaman knows, so heavy a dead weight on the bow of a vessel would materially lessen its speed; and by the morning's sun the privateer's topsails were but barely visible in the distance. Graham's Magazine Vol XXXIII No. 5 November 1848 He began to notice that she was like a dead weight in his arms. A Monk of Cruta Yet I left nothing undone because of the dead weight on my soul. The Price of the Prairie A Story of Kansas She was ready to fall from his grasp by her own dead weight. The Immortal Moment The Story of Kitty Tailleur She knew it, clutched at him and hung on him, a dead weight, while he buoyed her up. Old Crow They did not merely shake off that dead weight which clogs the movement of a nation—its inert mass of common people; they converted that mass into a living force. History of the Intellectual Development of Europe, Volume I (of 2) Revised Edition It dropped, too, like a dead weight, on the counterpane. A Journal of Impressions in Belgium These helices on the masts will lift the dead weight of the ship perpendicularly without the slightest help from the side-planes, which are used to regulate the vessel's flight when afloat. The Angel of the Revolution A Tale of the Coming Terror Straps were unbuckled and luggage tumbled, a dead weight, to the ground in less time than it takes to tell it. Our campaign around Gettysburg Being a memorial of what was endured, suffered and accomplished by the Twenty-third regiment (N. Y. S. N. G.) and other regiments associated with them, in their Pennsylvania and Maryland campaign, during the second rebel invasion of the loyal states in June-July, 1863 The dead weight of the huge stone prison seemed resting on our breasts. History of Morgan's Cavalry It's nothing but a dead weight to you anyhow. The German Classics, v. 20 Masterpieces of German Literature This last is like a dead weight that you hold off you with your arms stretched out. A Journal of Impressions in Belgium As he spoke, he slouched wearily over to the wing-chair Alison had recently occupied, and dropped into it like a dead weight. The Bandbox The sense of relief was so great that Jimbo simply closed his wings, and hung, a dead weight, in the air. Jimbo A Fantasy Surely, in this long interview, he had tried all that suggestion could do to get a fulcrum to raise the dead weight of conviction that years of an accepted error had built up undisturbed. When Ghost Meets Ghost Even if he were stunned, I don’t think that all of us pulling together could lift his dead weight on board the Ariel.” The Rushton Boys at Treasure Cove Or, The Missing Chest of Gold He had suddenly become a dead weight on Rochester’s arm. The Moving Finger The Indiana butcher boy pitched well enough to have won with any club in the league behind him, but only once were his pals anything but dead weight around his neck. News Writing The Gathering , Handling and Writing of News Stories Clearly, dead weight can only be resisted by the buttress acting as a prop; for a buttress on the side of, or towards the weight, would only add to its effect. The Stones of Venice, Volume I (of 3) But Nick rolled to the other side, and this dead weight was sufficient to keep the narrow craft from going completely over; she righted, and swept into the mouth of the creek. Motor Boat Boys Down the Coast or Through Storm and Stress to Florida Even the second snag, you see, needn’t lay you a dead weight on the earth. Happy Days for Boys and Girls His rifle fell to the soft earth with hardly a sound and, like a dead weight, he crumpled up; falling so quickly that I nearly came down on top of him. Wings of the Wind Hauling Tad Butler up, a dead weight, was not the easiest thing in the world. The Pony Rider Boys in Alaska Or, The Gold Diggers of Taku Pass For all her dead weight she rode like a yacht. Kipling Stories and Poems Every Child Should Know, Book II His burthen had not stirred, and was a dead weight. Hope Mills or, Between Friend and Sweetheart Patty was a dead weight, and she had to keep her own foothold or both would have been carried away as the wave receded. The Making of Mona The consequence is, runs the argument, that each sex has to battle with the dead weight of tradition and custom. Religion & Sex Studies in the Pathology of Religious Development It was like pulling on a dead weight, the pack mule being too weary to hasten its lagging footsteps. The Pony Rider Boys in Alaska Or, The Gold Diggers of Taku Pass In the next few days they stowed some four thousand tons' dead weight into the Dimbula, and took her out from Liverpool. Kipling Stories and Poems Every Child Should Know, Book II She will never be any kind of dead weight, and yet she is so deliciously womanly. Hope Mills or, Between Friend and Sweetheart These debts are like a dead weight—like the Old Man of the Sea—on my shoulders. The Romance of a Plain Man I felt that I could not long support a dead weight in that position; so lowering her limbs into the water, I profited by that relief, and reached the tree. Tales from Blackwood, Volume 7 But she was filled with a dead weight that seemed likely to break her down with its dreadful pressure. Claire The Blind Love of a Blind Hero, By a Blind Author My left arm seemed to be a dead weight, and the muscles were painful and swollen. Where Strongest Tide Winds Blew She had fainted again with her last word, and the dead weight in the man’s arms became almost unsupportable. The Law-Breakers The reaction from romance, therefore, real as it is, and dead weight as it lies upon the soul of the nation, often breeds the very forces which destroy it. The American Mind The E. T. Earl Lectures We shall be part of that dead weight which has always bent the back of the poor. The Social Principles of Jesus The army of negroes was at his heels; the old veteran in his path; the girl clinging a dead weight to his jacket behind. Hidden Hand So he left her, and went home with a dead weight at his heart. Audrey Craven It was as the lifting of a dead weight which had crushed her heart within her. The Hound From The North The dead weight about a missionary’s neck in the first years of his labour is the language. Journal of a Residence at Bagdad During the Years 1830 and 1831 He assured Boswell that he would never be able to lug the dead weight of the Rambler through the Highlands. James Boswell Famous Scots Series I know our friends look on me as a lazy, selfish dog, a dead weight on the child. Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 20, August 1877 For all the Diesel's power, it was not enough to cope with the dead weight of ice which was forming over the plane's wings and fuselage. Under Arctic Ice She untied the halter, and Don Quixote fell so suddenly that his meager body landed like a dead weight on the ground. The Story of Don Quixote Better leave me? sir," he said; "I'm dead weight in the boat. The House Under the Sea A Romance Between us the dead weight didn't seem too intolerable—not at first. The Man the Martians Made Granger made one last effort to reach him, but the tugging of the beast below the surface, or its dead weight, had drifted him out of arm-stretch. Murder Point A Tale of Keewatin Across his great shoulders, Luke's burden was a dead weight, of corpselike rigidity and stillness. Vulcan's Workshop On the other hand, if he clings back, a dead weight in his saddle, he is liable to throw the horse backward. War from the Inside The Story of the 132nd Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry in the War for the Suppression of the Rebellion, 1862-1863 If they were destroyed, or failed to function, he would be locked to the ground in a prison of metal and fabric: clamped down, literally, by a terrific dead weight! The Bluff of the Hawk And thus the patriots have the dead weight to support, and are wholly unsupported. Diary from November 12, 1862, to October 18, 1863 The clue being lacking, it remains an idle curiosity, to fret and obstruct the mind, a dead weight to burden it. The Child and the Curriculum "Press the key, Martin, and God grant we can rise with all this dead weight." Astounding Stories of Super-Science September 1930 Sol struggled towards the house with her dead weight on his leg. Dream Town For, our only resource, with that in view, would be to warehouse them in Auckland, and the expense of even this dead weight would make too large a hole in our possible earnings. Brighter Britain! (Volume 1 of 2) or Settler and Maori in Northern New Zealand The prisoner seemed so overcome with emotion that, after uttering a long sigh like a death rattle, he sank, a dead weight, into the arms of his jailors. A Nest of Spies At the bottom of his heart his self, the soul that aspired and had true hope of self-effectuation lay as dead, still-born, a dead weight in his womb. The Rainbow Cameron is devoted, but I doubt his other capacities for the emergency, and he has on his shoulders General Scott as a dead weight. Diary from March 4, 1861, to November 12, 1862 The dead weight he lifted with some difficulty to the railing, pushed hard, and heard the muffled splash. Peter the Brazen A Mystery Story of Modern China Robin had swooned, and lay a dead weight in the arms of the Prioress. Robin Hood This the heavy junk prevented lumbering along behind and holding the Reindeer back by just so much dead weight. Tales of the Fish Patrol Mr. Wetherill, whether wisely or not, put much money in property, and it has been a dead weight mostly. A Little Girl in Old Philadelphia They were about equally good scholars, neither of them being a dead weight upon the other. The History of Dartmouth College Lund was slowly dragging the dead weight of them all toward the mast. A Man to His Mate The only dead weight pressing on S is that of N, C C, and the glass diaphragm. How it Works Dealing in simple language with steam, electricity, light, heat, sound, hydraulics, optics, etc., and with their applications to apparatus in common use The more she cried, in fact, the calmer I found myself becoming, though all the while that dead weight of misery was hanging like lead from my heart. The Prairie Child It is pining, grief, and the dead weight of loss that has ailed her being childless and widowed at once. Not Like Other Girls She fell to her knees, and hung, screaming, a dead weight. Heart of the Blue Ridge They drag us back like so much dead weight.” Turn About Eleanor The dead weight of thirty seamen all leaning half-way over the side served to keep the light craft ballasted for the time being. The Black Buccaneer My first concern must be for the Princess, who lay upon me a dead weight, but, as I knew, a living, breathing body. Hurricane Island I thought women were just soft things a man had to take care of and carry along through life, a dead weight when they weren't worse. The Ranch at the Wolverine Ah, well, he is a dead weight this fellow!... Messengers of Evil Being a Further Account of the Lures and Devices of Fantômas Norma was pleased, for a few weeks, with her first social conquest, but after that Caroline became a dead weight upon her. The Beloved Woman The dead weight of tradition does not hang around his neck where State affairs are concerned and precedent only counts when it is right and just. "The Red Watch" With the First Canadian Division in Flanders These men ought not to be allowed to vote before we do, because they will be just so much more dead weight to lift. History of Woman Suffrage, Volume II Suddenly he felt the dead weight of the islander's body. El Diablo My opinion is that the dead weight there could not be moved. The Art of Disappearing For, indeed, it seemed a dead weight that he held in his arms. Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 6, July 1905 The report followed, and immediately he felt the dog's grip relax; he pushed the dead weight from off his chest and rose to his feet. The Doomsman You don't want to be a dead weight on anybody, do you? Reels and Spindles A Story of Mill Life In France, as he saw, the nobility had become in the main an encumbrance, a mere dead weight upon the energies of the agriculturist. The English Utilitarians, Volume I. Before he could get the exhausted lad to the hut, he had become a dead weight in Walter's arms. The Boy Chums in the Forest or Hunting for Plume Birds in the Florida Everglades I know he is a great reformer and a sailor’s friend, although he terms them a dead weight. A Sailor of King George Piers Minor felt the girl's dead weight thrown suddenly upon him. The Doomsman Unless you were close to the life in its last days, don’t hang any graves like dead weights of ineffectual sorrow about your neck. Winning the Wilderness Once 'enlightened' it would suppress the exclusive privileges of a class which, doing nothing in return, had become a mere burthen or dead weight encumbering all social development. The English Utilitarians, Volume I. Ah, there came in the dead weight—the fulfilling of that strange irony of fate which well-nigh invariably wills that the good of life comes to us a trifle too late. The Sign of the Spider There was a dead weight of finality in her words. Sundry Accounts Jane, still entranced, saw Cleigh stoop and put his arms under the body of his son, heave, and stand up under the dead weight. The Pagan Madonna If you would be a dead weight on the community, and “cumber the ground,” be a Drunkard; for that will render you useless, helpless, burdensome, and expensive. Select Temperance Tracts His reasoning had been thrown away upon the huge dead weight of official indifference, or worse than indifference. The English Utilitarians, Volume I. I was very glad when I reached the waggons to get rid of the gold, as it proved a very dead weight on my legs. Reminiscences of Queensland 1862-1869 We came to the surface several times and then sank again, owing to the dead weight of my helpless companions. An Explorer's Adventures in Tibet "Poor old Jim!" muttered Tiddler, as he gripped the dead weight in both hands, and, using the body as a shield, staggered into the bell chamber. With Haig on the Somme It permits 25 to 40% greater load of material in proportion to the dead weight of the vehicle. b. Principles of Mining Valuation, Organization and Administration My leg and thigh, pierced with two lance thrusts, were caught as in a vise between the ground and the dead weight of my fallen steed. The Brass Bell or, The Chariot of Death The first ten feet came over the gunwale without any resistance; then he had to surge against the sag of a dead weight. Jim Spurling, Fisherman or Making Good "Do you mean that you will marry him now, at once, and go out to India with him, as a dead weight round his neck?" The Vicar of Bullhampton Crushed against him, dead weight, she lay, her unconquered eyes sea black now, flat against his, her heart labouring heavily, under his relentless, banding arm. Margarita's Soul The Romantic Recollections of a Man of Fifty She must still draw forward, for a time, the dead weight of her past, just as the West must bear with and gradually slough off its violent moods.” Cavanaugh: Forest Ranger A Romance of the Mountain West “Will she always be doomed to drag that dead weight about with her?” The Bill-Toppers And now he allowed the hunter to lift him off the ground, then he let his muscles relax, his dead weight falling in his opponent’s arms. Far Past the Frontier “She has a dead weight of a helpless father and mother.” The Indifference of Juliet As if I could throw such a dead weight on any one’s hands!’ Hopes and Fears or, scenes from the life of a spinster A proportionately small amount of absolute conviction about it will carry, we thus make out, a vast dead weight of mere comparative. A Small Boy and Others The certainty of this settled like a cold, dead weight in the pit of his stomach. The Memory of Mars To carry the dead weight from the bottom as high as consistent with the stability of a ship, in order to ease her quick motion in rolling. The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. Throw overboard all dead weights from fascia and wake up the forces of the excretories. Philosophy of Osteopathy She is not a great cargo-carrier, it is true; in fact, her lines are so fine that the amount of her register tonnage, in dead weight, just puts her down to Plimsoll’s mark. The Cruise of the "Esmeralda" “You and Haydon were—what do you mean?” she asked, her heart seeming to be a dead weight in 261 her breast, heavy with suspicion over the dread significance in his voice and words. 'Drag' Harlan He had to get transportation first; he was strong for his age, but he didn't think he could carry or drag that much dead weight—he shuddered at that thought—very far. Hostage A Terran Empire story But this act of precaution was unnecessary, for after one fleeting glance at the tangled heap of iron in the corner, she sank a dead weight in his arms. The Secret Witness As I had no opportunity of getting the dead weights, I requested Mr. Swan, the salesman, to give his opinion on their respective qualities. The Stock-Feeder's Manual the chemistry of food in relation to the breeding and feeding of live stock She hung, crying and struggling, a dead weight between Moses and Mary, who pulled her forward, without letting her little toddling feet touch the ground. Little Grandmother She supposed at first that Willy had not come, for she did not see him till Seth and Stephen lifted him out of the wagon, a dead weight between them. Little Grandfather "I don't know," replied Mr. Jones, still hauling away at his line, to which some immense dead weight seemed to be attached. Little Bobtail or The Wreck of the Penobscot. So far all was well, but the stolen motor car was a dead weight on Renwick's conscience, and the danger of detection was still most unpleasant. The Secret Witness Bending near, he pulled the listless form from under the dead weight of the men above. The Kangaroo Marines Delicate shoulders, to carry the dead weight that hangs on them. Fernley House The gauge shows an ounce of buoyancy, which is nearly enough to counteract all the dead weight we have. Pharaoh's Broker Being the Very Remarkable Experiences in Another World of Isidor Werner The balance of opinion leaned to the latter; the dead weight of so much hemp held the ship without transmitting the strain to the anchor itself. From Sail to Steam, Recollections of Naval Life “Say ten thousand years old,” said Giovanni, and he said it without being in the least embarrassed, but then he is not a canonico and has not Moses hanging as a dead weight on him. Castellinaria and Other Sicilian Diversions But in his own uncertainty, he didn't want to be carrying any dead weight, in the form of a dependent individual. The Planet Strappers I try not to be anxious about you—But I wake up at night and this silence of months is like a dead weight on my heart. Trapped in 'Black Russia' Letters June-November 1915 If we had cast out a thing of solid iron, it would rush ahead of us, instead of falling a little behind, as this does, for it would have no dead weight to carry. Pharaoh's Broker Being the Very Remarkable Experiences in Another World of Isidor Werner It was just the time for anxious troubled thought, and the gold lay like a dead weight upon my conscience. The Golden Magnet The Cæsar hung like a dead weight on Antinor's left arm, and the right one, lacerated by the panther's claws, burned and ached well-nigh intolerably. "Unto Caesar" It was a heavy, crushing feeling; a dead weight always bearing him down. Seven Little People and their Friends Let us then reject this dead weight, and not load down good provisions, absolutely essential provisions, by this, which, however good in and of itself, can not be enforced. History of the Thirty-Ninth Congress of the United States I would rather break stones on the street than be a dead weight to any government, or in any community. The Story of My Life Being Reminiscences of Sixty Years' Public Service in Canada His work was done in face of a dead weight of senseless but powerful opposition, all of which he had to undermine and overcome. 1914 The trusted councillors looked unutterable things at all Gerrard's suggestions, and military and civil officials combined to defeat all his arrangements by means of the dead weight of their inertia. The Path to Honour The computation is, that every sixteenth person, or one person in every three households, is a pauper, hanging like a dead weight on the industry of the other fifteen. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2 No 4, October, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy But Eugene did not mean to be burdened with a dead weight all his life. Floyd Grandon's Honor Uncle Bill tried to lift him, to carry him, to drag him somehow—a dead weight—farther down the cañon. The Man from the Bitter Roots Every civilized society has to carry below the lowest sections of the masses a dead weight of ignorance, poverty, crime, and disease. Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals Is it not true that the dead weight in the boat hinders the progress of the Church of God? Broken Bread from an Evangelist's Wallet To my unutterable horror, he fell back in my arms a dead weight, and my hand accidentally touched his cold face. The Lost Despatch She considers any marriage a short-sighted step for such a man, and she can only think of Gertrude as a fretful, despondent woman, who will end by being a dead weight upon her husband. Floyd Grandon's Honor Twice he heard cheering and the splash of cavalry in the shallow river, but they seemed to be beaten off again, and he went about his business, listless, sombre, a dead weight at his heart. Lorraine A romance It must be misery to her to have Elizabeth hanging on to her as she does—a dead weight.” The Torch Bearer A Camp Fire Girls' Story We appeal to them to bear in mind that their money makes them greater difficulties than ever, and that the more their balance at the bankers’ grows the greater their dead weight in the boat. Broken Bread from an Evangelist's Wallet Now comes the announcement that there has been discovered a method of abolishing the dead weight of the train, leaving only aerial resistance to be contended with. The Life Radiant And they came right in on him, trampling him down, suffocating, choking him with the heat of them and the dead weight. The History of Sir Richard Calmady A Romance He might have revived, but he was hurried along by a stout leathern thong slipped under the armpits, and was then dragged a dead weight. A Little Girl in Old Quebec She was lifting a dead weight, and it seemed to drag more heavily upon her every moment. The Governess She was almost in a state of complete collapse, and Fred knew that unless he hurried to get her up where she could obtain warmth, she would be a dead weight on his hands. Fred Fenton on the Track or, The Athletes of Riverport School Its "cumbrous shells" cling like dead weights around man, and keep him from the larger, freer life. The Life Radiant Katherine, though little addicted to fear, felt strangely shaken, strangely alienated by the dead weight of the personality, by perception of the innate and tremendous vigour, of this being to whom she had given birth. The History of Sir Richard Calmady A Romance |
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