There was a terrible weight on my chest and I couldn't breathe.

The major felt as if a terrible weight had been lifted from her shoulders.

If everything was all right, it would lift a terrible weight off his mind.

The urge to turn and run was a terrible weight upon him.

Still, I couldn't be sure, and that was a terrible weight to carry.

The old rifle sat across her legs with a terrible weight.

We felt as if a terrible weight had been lifted from our minds.

He bowed his head under the terrible weight of them.

In that moment I felt the terrible weight of responsibility upon me.

As if a terrible weight had been lifted from his mind, he felt free, even a little excited.