WEIGHT in Classic Quotes

1  You know I am no light weight, and the others were both burly men.

Dracula By Bram Stoker
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XII

2  She had risen, as if impulsively, from where she lay on the sofa, and raised both her hands, palms upwards, as if lifting a weight.

Dracula By Bram Stoker
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXVI

3  I must have gone fast, and yet it seemed to me as if my feet were weighted with lead, and as though every joint in my body were rusty.

Dracula By Bram Stoker
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER VIII

4  Van Helsing, instead of his little black bag, had with him a long leather one, something like a cricketing bag; it was manifestly of fair weight.

Dracula By Bram Stoker
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XVI

5  I was very anxious about him, and I was powerless to act; my feet, and my hands, and my brain were weighted, so that nothing could proceed at the usual pace.

Dracula By Bram Stoker
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XIX

6  As I write there is in the passage below a sound of many tramping feet and the crash of weights being set down heavily, doubtless the boxes, with their freight of earth.

Dracula By Bram Stoker
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER IV

7  I rose and bowed, and he came towards me; a man of medium weight, strongly built, with his shoulders set back over a broad, deep chest and a neck well balanced on the trunk as the head is on the neck.

Dracula By Bram Stoker
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XIV