dead-heavy

Many a foot that has gone up there lightly enough, has been dead-heavy in the descent.

Edinburgh Picturesque Notes 2005

Often the grey light of dawn would put its ashen hand across my sunken cheeks before dead-heavy, exhausted sleep proved kind to me ....

Tramping on Life Kemp, Harry, 1883-1960 1922

Often the grey light of dawn would put its ashen hand across my sunken cheeks before dead-heavy, exhausted sleep proved kind to me ....

Tramping on Life An Autobiographical Narrative Harry Kemp 1921

I had been dead-heavy before, and now I felt a kind of dreadful lightness, which would not suffer me to walk.

Kidnapped: The Adventures of David Balfour 1886

To allow it to be done merely that children may grow up in the stereotyped mould, is simply to perpetuate in new generations the present thick-sighted and dead-heavy state of our spirits.

On Compromise John Morley 1880

Many a foot that has gone up there lightly enough, has been dead-heavy in the descent.

The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 1 (of 25) Robert Louis Stevenson 1872

Many a foot that has gone up there lightly enough, has been dead-heavy in the descent.

Edinburgh Picturesque Notes Robert Louis Stevenson 1872

I had been dead-heavy before, and now I felt a kind of dreadful lightness, which would not suffer me to walk.

Kidnapped Robert Louis Stevenson 1872

It starts with those typical solemn chromatic guitar progressions that are dead-heavy even though the distortion knob is hardly open.

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Now some are sporting fancier leg braces than the dead-heavy ones they wore long ago, but braces nonetheless.

The Moderate Voice 2008