Foklar karada sakar ve hantal, suda ise çok zariftir.
- Seals are clumsy and ponderous on land, but very graceful in the water.
Yaşlı profesörün dersleri dolambaçlı ve sıkıcıdır.
- The old professor's lectures are long-winded and ponderous.
s certainly as any one said anything in her presence that she had occasion to repeat, she changed the wording to six-syllabled mouthfuls, delivered with ponderous circumlocution.
For the time, her own body was the source of all the life in the world, which tried to burst forth here—there—and was repressed now by Mr. Bax, now by Evelyn, now by the imposition of ponderous stupidity.
Following his steps . . . came two elderly women of the lower middle class, one stout and ponderous, the other rosy cheeked and nimble.
They are the pleasantest of all companions, and perhaps the most affluent in correct opinions of men and things generally, although little addicted to ponderous consideration or deep research.
The great elephant, when the cage was being placed, would, at a signal from its keeper, place its ponderous head against one side of the cage and push.