| 1. | A harmony established contrary to sense is often more onerous than a war. - from Les Miserables by Victor Hugo |
| 2. | That all this might not be too onerous on the purses of his rustic patrons, who are apt to consider the costs of schooling a grievous burden, and schoolmasters as mere drones, he had various ways of rendering himself both useful and agreeable. - from The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving |
| 3. | And Boris, having apparently relieved himself of an onerous duty and extricated himself from an awkward situation and placed another in it, became quite pleasant again. - from War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy |