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We retreat behind a wall of leaden blocks as he shakes the hair out of his eyes and flips a switch.

She was pleasant, even cheerful, but there was a leaden weight in her heart as she realized how foolish she had been.

It had been a leaden dawn, and the rain now steadily renewed its fall.

It had been a leaden dawn, and the rain now steadily poured down.

lit up the dark, cloudy sky, whose uniform leaden gloom had by now broken up into patches of black and grey.

It remains to be seen whether his initiative will move at the same leaden pace as judicial reform in the rest of the country.

Against the leaden sky, the granite stones, standing in the pouring rain, exuded a profound sense of melancholy.

Those less fearful were happily leaden-footed; they were too slow in clambering aboard the Ship of Fools.

Behind the station lay a river, its surface glittering with a snowy brilliance, winding away to become lost among the leaden fields.

Soon November will be approaching with its autumn storms and leaden clouds, hanging above your head like soaking wet rags.

Its monstrous wings seem to wheel in the leaden air around me.

I readily agreed, but for all my eagerness there was a leaden feeling deep in my stomach.

The leafless trees, that against the leaden sky now revealed more fully the wonderful beauty and intricacies of their branches.

and the leafless trees, that against the leaden sky now revealed more fully the wonderful beauty and intricacies of the branches.

All right, on the face of it leaden Gordon Brown may not have much in common with fleet Muhammad Ali.

He overlooked the land, which was still a vast expanse of whiteness. Suddenly, a leaden object jumped into his eyes.

Over the course of the day, they gradually grow leaden with extended use, as our arms and legs do.

Eurocrats have reasons to be anxious, as their tans fade under leaden Brussels skies.

on the contrary, his steps were leaden, and he could barely move his freezing, tired legs.

He is right that the leaden hand of the state has often suppressed individual freedom and creativity.

As Mukherjee writes, "Cancer is indeed the load built into our genome, the leaden counterweight to our aspirations for immortality. "

Leaden-eyed despairs , where Beauty cannot keep her lustrous eyes , or new Love pine at them beyond tomorrow.

I live in the angle of a leaden wall, into whose composition was poured a little alloy of bell-metal.

in a long time, what I have seen was either weak leaden clouds or frenetic draconian pouring hitting the creations.

It protects a sealed glass phial containing seawater collected on the calmest of days when the water was leaden.

Gray-faced and bowed forward, they mechanically, turn by turn, plied the leaden oars.

and the anchorage, under lee of Skeleton Island, lay still and leaden as when first we entered it.

For Clarissa, official time is represented by Big Ben whose note is 'irrevocable' like ' leaden circles dissolved in the air'.

It fell with a leaden weight on Isabel's ears.

the round leaden seal affixed to a papal bull.

In the bend of his elbow the leaden head of his enormous cane, which was hidden behind him, could be seen.

Cupid shot the leaden -pointed arrow straight at Daphne's heart.

The government, too, hopes to revive nuclear power. But Italy is held back by a leaden bureaucracy.

Twilight came on. Snow fell from the darkening, leaden sky.

In youth the hours are golden in mature years they are silver, in old age they are leaden.

March of the Leaden soldiers.

Winter dawn is leaden , no line between sky and sea.

We understand that Shevchenko might need a little more time to adapt, and at times he has appeared leaden and lost.

in the second morning , snowflake fell from leaden sky.

In the end, the angels brought the leaden heart and the dead bird to heaven because they were the most precious things in the city.

drizzle from a leaden sky.

I drag my leaden feet.

An Idea , a Form , a Being Which left the azure sky and fell Into a leaden, miry Styx That no eye in Heaven can pierce ;

The rain was easing up and turning to a thick, misty drizzle, while the sky was more leaden and overcast than ever

Like a leaden knell the words came back at him

Cause and Elimination of Air Bubbles in Moulding Radiation Leaden Block

The leaden atmosphere of the museum

And thought of the leaden sky

The Clintons have fought a leaden and nasty campaign;