It was a ponderous volume of some nine hundred pages.

I replied, looking at the ponderous volume with some surprise; "surely your author was unhappily named."

Mr. van der Beek, his splendid nose buried in a ponderous volume, didn't bother to lift his head.

This ponderous volume here, which has served me so much for thirty long years, how can I leave it without according it every kindness that a faithful servant deserves?

Packed with the most telling detail, her novels and stories are nonetheless governed by a refreshing economy that somehow manages to suggest the breadth and variety of experience usually found in much thicker, more ponderous volumes.

Upon Grayle's desk lay the ponderous volumes that constituted the Cleghorn catalog of current art and collections, which Grayle had gladly and proudly brought out for his visitors to view.

Eden lived another 20 years, accepting a peerage as Lord Avon in 1961, writing three ponderous volumes of political memoirs and a graceful, elegiac remembrance, "Another World, 1897-1917."

Perusing these ponderous volumes is challenging but rewarding.

It was a ponderous volume of some-body's sermons.

With this latest effort of the tenth muse, the crafty muse of Literary Forgery, we may leave a topic which could not be exhausted in a ponderous volume.