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Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes. 1916.

Heavy

Heavy as a boarding-house dumpling.
—Anonymous

Heavy as death.
—Matthew Arnold

Heavy as a panegyric.
—William Congreve

Heavy as the hand of death.
—Charles Dickens

Head as heavy as alderman’s.
—Henry Fielding

Hung heavy as an opiate.
—Thomas Hardy

Heavy and lumpish … like a defunct nightmare, which had perished in the midst of its wickedness, and left its flabby corpse on the breast of the tormented one, to be gotten rid of as it might.
—Nathaniel Hawthorne

Heavy, like a spade that digs in clay.
—Richard Hengist Horne

Heavy as remembered sin
That will not suffer sleep or thought to ease.
—Rudyard Kipling

Lies heavy … like murder on a guilty soul.
—Friedrich von Schiller

Heavy as lead.
—John Skelton

Heavier than the sands of the sea.
—Old Testament

Heavy as a Dutchman.
—Mrs. Henry Wood

Heavy as frost.
—William Wordsworth