Word Finder - heavily

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In a heavy manner.

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He clomped heavily up the stairs in his boots.

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With a great weight.

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heavily burdened

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To a considerable degree, to a great extent.

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He drank heavily.

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In a manner designed for heavy duty.

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heavily armed soldiers;   heavily armoured tanks;   heavily reinforced walls

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So as to be thick or heavy.

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heavily built young men;   his heavily muscled arms

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In a laboured manner.

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he breathed heavily

Snow fell heavily outside.

Katie sighed heavily and leaned forward.

It was snowing pretty heavily about that time.

Kris asked, sitting heavily on the ground beside him.

She was heavily armed, sweating, and outside the compound.

The wolf ran forward and jumped heavily over a gully that lay in her path.

Finally he sighed heavily and ran a hand through his hair.

She's not heavily endowed with common sense or ambition, but she does have attributes.

Much satisfaction was shown in Europe at the fall of President Celman, for investors had suffered heavily by the way in which the resources of Argentina had been dissipated by that the uprising of public opinion against his financial methods signified a more honest conduct of the national affairs in the future.

He sighed heavily and rolled over, putting an arm around Carmen's waist and snuggling close to her.

In Argentina these burdens bear heavily upon the labouring classes, and in years of depression they send away by thousands immigrants unable to meet the high costs of living, For the year 1900 the total expenditures of the national government, 14 provincial governments, and 16 principal cities, were estimated to have been $208,811,925 paper, which is equivalent to $91,877,247 gold, or (at $5.04 per pound stg.) to £18,229,612, ios.

If he appropriated or sold the implements, impoverished or sublet the cattle, he was heavily fined and in default of payment might be condemned to be torn to pieces by the cattle on the field.

When too heavily laden the camel refuses to rise, but on the march it is exceedingly patient under its burden, only yielding beneath it to die.

Land is not so heavily burdened by the government quota as by the additional centimes imposed by the provincial and communal authorities.

The worst governed part of the peninsula was the south, where feudalism lay heavily on the cultivators and corruption pervaded all ranks.

The existing system of taxation also presses heavily upon the provinces, as may be seen from the fact that the national, provincial and municipal exactions together amount to £7 per head of population, while the total value of the exports in 1898 was only L6 in round numbers.

While Cook was speculating on the cause of this phenomenon, and was in the act of ordering out the boats to take soundings, the " Endeavour " struck heavily, and fell over so much that the guns, spare cables, and other heavy gear had at once to be thrown overboard to lighten the ship. As day broke, attempts were made to float the vessel off with the morning tide; but these were unsuccessful.

He also caused new rules to be enacted by which his Jewish subjects were heavily handicapped in education and professional advancement.

A clause provided that, within five days after the passing of the law, every senator should take an oath to observe it, under penalty of being expelled from the senate and heavily fined.

Finally he sighted heavily.

When Connie continued to watch her dubiously, Lisa dropped to the bed and sighed heavily.

The responsibility of Death weighed heavily on his shoulders.

She sighed heavily and opened the door to the porch.

She sighed heavily and turned away from the kitchen.

And this result he achieved with men of less than two years' service, men, too, more heavily equipped and worse mounted than the veterans of the Grande Armee.

Hugging her close, he sighed heavily.

His tone quieted her, and she stared up at him, breathing heavily.

Her head spun as her blood dropped from her head to her body, and she sat heavily.

Alex absently ran fingers through his hair and sighed heavily.

He ran a hand through his hair and sighed heavily.

When she finally drew back, they were both breathing heavily.

He had chosen and knew his ground, lying between St Ninians and the Bannock, a petty burn, yet sufficient to produce marshes dangerous to heavily armed horsemen, while from the rising ground on his right the enemy's advance was seen.

Apart from this advantage, placed in his hands by the imprudence of Stein, Napoleon was heavily handicapped at the Erfurt interview.

Cradock was heavily defeated by a German squadron off the coast of Chile.

The islands in the harbour, now bare, were for the most part heavily wooded when first occupied.

The town was so heavily taxed by the Hamdanid princes at Mosul that the Arab tribe of the Banu Habib, although blood relations of the Hamdanids, migrated into Byzantine territory, where they were well received, accepted Christianity, attracted other emigrants from Nisibis, and at last began to avenge themselves by yearly raids upon their old home.

If the test of the settlement were not frequently applied, speculators who were unfortunate would be tempted to plunge deeper until finally some became insolvent for large sums. As it is, the speculator who has incurred losses beyond his means tends to be discovered before his creditors are heavily involved.

They consented to ally themselves with the ruler of Damascus against the sultan of Egypt; but in the battle of Gaza they were deserted by their allies and heavily defeated by Bibars, the Egyptian general and future Mameluke sultan of Egypt.

Constant punitive measures were carried on by the military police; but in December 1892 a police column proceeding to establish a post at Sima was heavily attacked, and simultaneously the town of Myitkyina was raided by Kachins.

The Amazon plain is heavily forested and has a slope of less than one inch to the mile within Brazilian territory - one competent authority placing it at about one-fifth of an inch per mile.

Its next advance brought it to the fortified position of Tashichiao, where Kuropatkin had, by drawing heavily upon his central reserve and even on the Eastern Detachment, massed about two army corps.

These pacts have hitherto been scrupulously observed, and as the local authorities levy the contribution after their own local customs, landed property and the industrial and commercial classes are less heavily taxed in these territories than in the rest of Spain.

Under these rulers the rich kingdom was heavily taxed to supply the sinews of war and to support every kind of lavish expenditure.

The columns attacking Passo di Buole suffered heavily from the flanking fire of the 44th Div.

Spaniels are heavily built dogs with short and very wide skulls rising suddenly at the eyes.

Mastiffs are powerful, heavily built dogs, with short muzzles, frequently protruding lower jaws, skulls raised above the eyes, ears erect or pendulous, pendulous upper lips, short coats and thin tails.

The bulldog is a small, compact but extremely heavily built animal of great strength, vigour and tenacity.

Reform of this system, and, further, very necessary reforms of the methods of collection of the wines and spirits revenue (which is protection turned upside down, the home-growers being far more heavily taxed than importers), and of the customs (in which almost every possible administrative sin was exemplified), were also undertaken.

Thanks to his having compelled his allies to fight his battles for him, he had not as yet drawn very heavily on the fighting resources of France, the actual percentage of men taken by the conscriptions during the years since 1806 being actually lower than that in force in continental armies of to-day.

She was at first left undisturbed, but by degrees the château itself became taboo, and her visitors found themselves punished heavily.