I took it: a book of some kind, a small octavo book, only about six by nine inches, but heavyish. ❋ Bailey MacDonald (2010)
I get a 200g sub, so this is 100g spun up to give singles that I trust will ply to a heavyish sock weight yarn. ❋ Spinningfishwife (2009)
I say this with a heavyish heart and an awareness of contradiction: I'm always complaining that so many studio productions target undiscriminating kids to the exclusion of intelligent adult audiences. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Hence heavyish posting, fuelled by endless cups of tea. ❋ Laban (2005)
Just a quick note to say that you looked heavyish last time I saw you, which, come to think of it, was this morning, in the Oval Office, when you accepted my withdrawal (which you had secretly demanded) and ruined my life and dreams and spirit. ❋ Unknown (2005)
The lady pouring coffee and smoking cigarettes opposite me was smallish, heavyish, grayish, and angryish. ❋ Argo, John (2002)
Oliver Crowe is nearly six feet, vividly dark, a little stooping, dressed like anybody else in the Yale Club from hair parted in the middle to low heavyish brown shoes, though the punctured patterns on the latter are a year or so out of date. ❋ Stephen Vincent Ben��t (1920)
A pair of large tortoise-shell spectacles straddled a big beak-like nose, and he wore a heavyish blond moustache with its points trained upwards and outwards rather after the fashion made famous in the ❋ Valentine Williams (1914)
The hills are so covered with scrub that it was hard to see what was going on in that uncertain light, but the heavyish shrapnel fire was a bad sign and the fact that the enemy's guns were firing from a knoll a few hundred yards East of Anafarta Sagir was proof that our troops were not holding Tekke Tepe. ❋ Ian Hamilton (1900)
My hand to jaw-and-tail fight with the conger had made me a little unsteady; had made my muscles feel as if they might string up with cramp; which is not good for stepping a heavyish mast and sailing a boat. ❋ Stephen Sydney Reynolds (1900)
She has a heavyish burden too, in this world, but struggles along with wonderful toughness, and does not in general make complaint about it. ❋ Unknown (1893)
There was a heavyish stake on that throw, if we'd only known. ❋ Rolf Boldrewood (1870)
He recovered himself though, and thought no more of his escape in the excitement of finding that he had hooked a heavyish fish, and which took ❋ George Manville Fenn (1870)
His letters and other written papers show one little but not uninstructive effect of the pressure and distraction that now came on him -- in the great change which his handwriting underwent -- the neat, regular writing of his youth giving place to a large and heavyish hand, as if he had never had time to mend his pen, and his only thought had been how to get on most quickly. ❋ William Garden Blaikie (1859)
Howsomever, the wind breezed up a little on the second day, and by nightfall it blew pretty freshish, with a heavyish sea on. ❋ William Henry Giles Kingston (1847)
His lectures remain to this day, in their own place in the protracted series of annual Discourses to which they belong, distinguished amid a number of heavyish compositions by the rhetorical and ambitious diction for which he went into the market. ❋ John Henry Newman (1845)
As he spoke, the sound of some one running quickly in the room overhead was distinctly audible; then came a scuffling noise, and then a heavyish fall. ❋ Frank E. Smedley (1835)
Fine camera though it may be, it will still be heavyish and will retail for a mere $11,000 for the body in Australia (USD$9500). ❋ Unknown (2010)
