1 The demands of the Confederate commissary were growing heavier by the month, and hers was the task of making Tara produce.
2 Then his voice became thin and dim and his face above her swirled in a sickening mist which became heavier and heavier until she no longer saw him--or anything else.
3 The old darkies went back to the plantations gladly, making a heavier burden than ever on the poverty-stricken planters who had not the heart to turn them out, but the young ones remained in Atlanta.
4 New settlers were coming in every day from Tennessee and the Carolinas where the hand of Reconstruction lay even heavier than in Georgia.
5 But there lay upon her conscience another matter that was heavier and more frightening even than causing his death--a matter which had never troubled her until she looked upon his coffined face.
6 Well, the cross was heavier now.
7 She was not fond of Bertha Dorset, but neither was she without a sense of obligation, the heavier for having so little personal liking to sustain it.
8 I used to watch her coming and going, and I could see that her steps were getting heavier.
My Antonia By Willa CatherContext Highlight In BOOK 4. The Pioneer Woman's Story: III 9 It was long before the clouds had discharged their burden, and, meanwhile, the dust on the road became kneaded into mire, and the horses' task of pulling the britchka heavier and heavier.
10 a heavier burden than he suspects himself.
11 His cheeks, which were so flabby that they looked heavier below, were twitching violently; but he wore the air of a man little concerned in what the two ladies were saying.
12 I lifted it up, but the higher I lifted it the bigger and heavier it grew.
13 An ax will be useful, a hunting spear not bad, but a three-pronged fork will be best of all: a Frenchman is no heavier than a sheaf of rye.
14 Kutuzov wrote that the Russians had not retreated a step, that the French losses were much heavier than ours, and that he was writing in haste from the field of battle before collecting full information.
15 That city is taken; the Russian army suffers heavier losses than the opposing armies had suffered in the former war from Austerlitz to Wagram.