burdensome

Heavily weighs on me at times the burdensome reflection that I cannot honestly say I am confident as to the exact shape of the once-seen, oft-regretted Cube; and in my nightly visions the mysterious precept, "Upward, not Northward", haunts me like a soul-devouring Sphinx.

Narrow and burdensome and useless to anyone as his life now seemed to him, Prince Andrew on the eve of battle felt agitated and irritable as he had done seven years before at Austerlitz.

The innocent festivities over the election, and this gloomy, burdensome love to which he had to return struck Vronsky by their contrast.

The loans it might be able to procure would be as limited in their extent as burdensome in their conditions.

He was there on duty, but without curiosity, and seemed weary, not with age, but with the possession of a burdensome secret of existence.

One no longer becometh poor or rich; both are too burdensome. Who still wanteth to rule?

But I lost the thread there, and dozed off to slumber, thinking about what a pity it was that men with such superb strength -- strength enabling them to stand up cased in cruelly burdensome iron and drenched with perspiration, and hack and batter and bang each other for six hours on a stretch -- should not have been born at a time when they could put it to some useful purpose.

All others being excluded from the tent, this attendant relieved his master from the more burdensome parts of his armour, and placed food and wine before him, which the exertions of the day rendered very acceptable.

The attempt has awakened fully the public attention to that important subject; and has led to investigations which must terminate in a thorough and universal conviction, not only that the constitution has provided the most effectual guards against danger from that quarter, but that nothing short of a Constitution fully adequate to the national defense and the preservation of the Union, can save America from as many standing armies as it may be split into States or Confederacies, and from such a progressive augmentation, of these establishments in each, as will render them as burdensome to the properties and ominous to the liberties of the people, as any establishment that can become necessary, under a united and efficient government, must be tolerable to the former and safe to the latter.

I fear I hurt you and made the day more burdensome."

He glanced about the room, and the thought of packing was burdensome. Perhaps it would be better to leave that to the last.

"A heavy and a burdensome weight is this to be laid upon the shoulders of a sister and a mother!"