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Dad had weighted down the note with the salt shaker.

From "Doing Time Online" by Jan Siebold

But the boys had weighted it down with rocks and pegged its net ropes to the ground.

From The Boy Aviators in Africa by Goldfrap, John Henry

The men we met walked past slow, unsmiling, with downcast eyes, as if the melancholy of an over-burdened earth had weighted their feet, bowed their shoulders, borne down their glances.

From Amy Foster by Conrad, Joseph

He had weighted his skiff with stones, bored a hole in the bottom, and filled it with a plug which could easily be removed.

From Raiding with Morgan by Dunn, Byron A. (Byron Archibald)

Saint Louis himself organized industry, and divided the trades into brotherhoods, put under the protection of the saints from the tyranny of the barons and of the feudal system which had weighted all industry.

From Women Wage-Earners Their Past, Their Present, and Their Future by Campbell, Helen