| 1. | He is both ponderous and profound. - from Moby Dick; or The Whale by Herman Melville |
| 2. | He threatens ruin with his ponderous tail. - from Moby Dick; or The Whale by Herman Melville |
| 3. | Was moving toward the shore his ponderous shiel. - from Paradise Lost by John Milton |
| 4. | Its ponderous wings are slowly and musically expanded. - from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe by Edgar Allan Poe |
| 5. | Our modern wonders, the antique ponderous Seven outvied. - from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman |
| 6. | The cart of the carman, the omnibus, the ponderous dray. - from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman |
| 7. | Thy ponderous side-bars, parallel and connecting rods, gyrating. - from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman |
| 8. | At an angle of the ponderous wall frowned a more ponderous gate. - from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe by Edgar Allan Poe |
| 9. | _There's a ponderous pundit MacHug. - from Ulysses by James Joyce |