Use "leaden" in a sentence

1. the confused of mind to enter their leaden halls and

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2. His sorrow mounted and his heart was leaden as he began the homeward journey, yet he surmounted the darkness and once again was himself

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3. “…No,” Was the delayed and leaden reply, “I…I’m quite confident that it’s lingering guilt rather than worry

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4. shower of iron and leaden hail

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5. The leaden skies and the softly-swishing traffic foretold a long, damp and dismal winter in this city

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6. With the distance shortening encouragingly, he now forced himself into a staggering gait ruled by the conflict between eager anticipation and leaden exhaustion

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7. It was rather cold and the sky was leaden, but it was not snowing, and there was little snow in the woods

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8. Ever so slowly the soft lack of resistance turned to a leaden weight in his arms

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9. slowly the soft lack of resistance turned to a leaden weight in his arms

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10. To her relief, Tress slowly felt signs of movement returning to her leaden arms

11. The sea was leaden

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12. He wondered when the leaden clouds that obscured his happiness had arrived and if it was his fault

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13. These all may be turned to account on the platform; even the leaden events of hum-drum daily life may be melted into bullets for future battles

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14. The Indian summer was long gone and most of the trees poked bare branches at the leaden skies, their leaves whipping past in the wind to pile up in doorways and sheltered spots

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15. had ceased falling but the skies were still leaden and grey, brooding

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16. He had dark eyes with thick, leaden eyelids¾the eyes as passionate as fire behind the rimless glasses

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17. He reached the camp as the leaden sky opened up and rain lashed down onto the moors

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18. ‖ The big Miccosukee laid the club across his lap, folded his arms across his massive chest and directed a leaden stare at the woman

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19. The skies over Quebec Province were leaden, and more snow

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20. It was a grey, leaden sky and bitterly cold

21. The sky above them was growing ever more leaden, and snow had been forecast for the capital late afternoon

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22. To make matters worse it was starting to snow, just small flurries now but the threat of a white-out was there in the heavy leaden sky

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23. So, with leaden heart and a storm in his head, Ambrosius hit the Cannery Arms

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24. Accompanied by an Iranian technician also wearing a protective suit, she then entered the vault and looked around at the hundreds of leaden containers inside the shielded room before starting to walk slowly among them

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25. him in a deadly leaden hail, but he jinked and swerved into the dark, his hands

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26. He staggered away, his limbs suddenly leaden and shaking

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27. She turned toward Millie Clements with leaden feet

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28. November is nearly upon us, and we shiver under leaden clouds and driving rain

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29. You never do seem to mind the things that would fill my heart with leaden despair, and over other things that should not matter you cry out

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30. Isn't it shameful that the sight of leaden clouds--but they really are dreadful clouds, inky, ragged, harassed--scudding across the sky, and of furious brown beech-leaves on the little trees in front of the Lindebergs' deserted house being lashed and maddened by the wind, should make me suddenly catch my breath for pain? It is pain, quite sharp, unmistakable pain, and it is because I am alone, and my friends gone and the dusk is falling

31. There is practically only that one street in Göhren, and it is lined with hotels and lodging-houses, and down at the bottom, between the over-arching trees, the leaden waves were dashing on the deserted sands

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32. There is no cold with quite so forlorn a chill in it as a sudden interruption of July heats; and there is no place with quite so forlorn a feeling about it as deserted sands on a leaden evening

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33. Was it only the evening before that I had sailed away from Vilm in glory and in joy, leaving the form of the abstruse but beautiful youth standing in such a golden radiance that it was as the form of an angel? Down among the dunes, where the grey ribbons of the sea-grass were violently fluttering and indigo clouds lay in an unbroken level over leaden waves, I sat and ate my rusks and was wretched

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34. A leaden uneasiness settled over the room

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35. Here she was able to say magnificently, "Next month I'll do this or that," sure of her months, sure of their being arrangeable things, flexible to her will, not each just a great black leaden weight holding her pinned down more and more heavily to a sofa

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36. To Ingram on that leaden afternoon the lake looked like a coffin, and the islands as dull and shabby as three nails in it; to Ingeborg they looked like three little miracles of God

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37. They walked miles that day; often in silence, sometimes in gusty talk--talk gusty with the swift changes of Priscilla's mood scudding across the leaden background of Fritzing's steadier despair--and they got back tired, hungry, their clothes splashed with mud, their minds no nearer light than when they started

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38. She really had a headache; and when the dusk came, and Wemyss turned on the lights, it was evident even to him that she had, for there was no colour at all in her face and her eyes were puffed and leaden

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39. The posse swarmed into the tunnel in a bunch behind the Leader, jostling and puffing and for many with leaden steps and rubbery knees

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40. So they moved on, their legs like sacks of sand, their arms leaden and with eye lids that could barely be kept up

41. to check the area of the house, a ‘drive-past’ under a leaden

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42. And behold, the leaden cover was lifted, and there was a woman sitting in the ephah!

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43. Soon heavy, leaden sleep came over him, as it were crushing him

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44. There was nothing poignant, nothing acute about it; but there was a feeling of permanence, of eternity about it; it brought a foretaste of hopeless years of this cold leaden misery, a foretaste of an eternity "on a square yard of space

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45. The first words written on the parchment found in the leaden box were these: THE ACADEMICIANS OF

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46. At the unexpected shock of this phrase falling on her thought like a leaden bullet on a silver plate, Emma, shuddering, raised her head in order to find out what he meant to say; and they looked at the other in silence, almost amazed to see each other, so far sundered were they by their inner thoughts

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47. Waking up in the morning after some hours of heavy, leaden sleep, and immediately realising all that had happened on the previous day, I was positively amazed at my last night's sentimentality with Liza, at all those

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48. of copper, and he put on the leaden cover his seal, which is enchantment enough

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49. RINCEWIND? Death said, in tones as deep and heavy as the slamming of leaden doors, far underground

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50. With some care he selected a Zchloty leaden quarter-iotum and balanced it on a purple thumbnail

51. In the Gods' Quarter, in Ankh-Morpork, Fate had a small, heavy, leaden temple, where hollow-eyed and gaunt worshippers met on dark nights for their predestined-and fairly pointless rites

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52. It was followed by the swift flashes of the rifles, which sent their leaden messengers across the rock in volleys, as though the assailants would pour out their impotent fury on the insensible scene of the fatal contest

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53. Once more the savage yells burst out of the woods, and the leaden hail whistled above the heads of the besieged, as if to confine them to a place where

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54. "What warrior does not? 'Tis where a leaden bullet has cut

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55. On the mantelpiece of this little office a little leaden battalion of canisters was drawn up and on the table before the window stood four or five china bowls which were usually half full of a black liquid

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56. When I opened the shutters and looked out at the wet wild morning, all of a leaden hue; when I walked from room to room; when I sat down again shivering, before the fire, waiting for my laundress to appear; I thought how miserable I was, but hardly knew why, or how long I had been so, or on what day of the week I made the reflection, or even who I was that made it

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57. Before daybreak he would awake, leave the inn after rigorously paying his bill, and reaching the forest, he would, under pretence of making studies in painting, test the hospitality of some peasants, procure himself the dress of a woodcutter and a hatchet, casting off the lion's skin to assume that of the woodman; then, with his hands covered with dirt, his hair darkened by means of a leaden comb, his complexion embrowned with a preparation for which one of his old comrades had

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58. Edward raised his head, looked at his mother, and then, finding that she did not confirm the order, began cutting off the heads of his leaden soldiers

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59. The heavy white face was seamed with lines of trouble, the hanging pouches under the closed eyes were leaden in colour, the loose mouth drooped dolorously at the corners, the rolling chins were unshaven

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60. The light is bad today, the weather’s turned, the sky leaden, threatening

61. But he could not shake off that empty, leaden feeling and that was because of Zander of course

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62. Scarlett’s heart went leaden as the last hope left her

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63. Cottages and lodges were decorated; plans for a bonfire that night and for the village silver band to play on the terrace, were put down, but the house flag, that had not flown for twenty-five years, was hoisted over the pediment, and flapped sharply against the leaden sky

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64. She was thinking with a leaden heart that in burying Gerald she was burying one of the

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65. Leaning hard into the babble of Inch’s tired war stories, Josie occasionally recognized names that tumbled out in a tangle of private jokes and leaden ironies

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66. Dairyman Crick, who was there with the rest, his wrapper gleaming miraculously white against a leaden evening sky, suddenly looked at his heavy watch

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67. But to stand working slowly in a field, and feel the creep of rain-water, first in legs and shoulders, then on hips and head, then at back, front, and sides , and yet to work on till the leaden light diminishes and marks that the sun is down, demands a distinct modicum of stoicism, even of valour

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68. Waking up in the morning after some hours of heavy, leaden sleep, and immediately realising all that had happened on the previous day, I was positively amazed at my last night's SENTIMENTALITY with Liza, at all those "outcries of horror and pity

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69. Leaden circles, nine or ten, spreading outward without striking anything solid

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70. We were on the edge of a lake, whose leaden waters

71. Gradually, I gave him such confidence that he ventured to take me walking on the banks of the lake and to row me in the boat on its leaden waters; toward the end of my captivity he let me out through the gates that closed the underground passages in the Rue Scribe

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72. in a stable, His Majesty George the Fourth with legs and cravat, and various leaden spittoons, might have seemed a hard business, but for the sustaining power of nomenclature which determined that the pursuit of these things was "gay

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73. A thin-lipped mouth and grey eyes the colour of the leaden skies, he looked every inch a warrior, and the very opposite of General Warlow … and yet this man was on the losing side of the war

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74. He still said it was "all right," but there was such a leaden dread at his heart that the words had lost their ring and sounded just as if he had said, "All is lost!" Becky clung to his side in an anguish of fear, and tried hard to keep back the tears, but they would come

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75. Outrageous as it was to open a leaden coffin, to see if a woman dead nearly a week were really dead, it now seemed the height of folly to open the tomb again, when we knew, from the evidence of our own eyesight, that the coffin was empty

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76. He bent over and again forced back the leaden flange, and a shock of surprise and dismay shot through me

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77. He evidently did not know that there was a leaden coffin, or at any rate, had not thought of it

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78. Van Helsing forced back the leaden flange, and we all looked in and recoiled

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79. We soldered up the leaden coffin, screwed on the coffin lid, and gathering up our belongings, came away

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80. I would have got out to make certain on the point, but some leaden lethargy seemed to chain my limbs and even my will