Example Sentences

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It seemed to press upon her so ponderably as almost to be tangible.

From The Highgrader by Hutchison, D. C.

She was undeniably spare, and ponderably light, and proveably tall; when people had wished to distinguish her from the other two Miss Archers they had always called her the willowy one.

From The Portrait of a Lady — Volume 1 by James, Henry