Those who wore his purple before him bequeathed to him the intolerable weight of rule, and he in his turn bequeaths it to another.

An intolerable weight seemed to press on her forehead and slowly she slid into sleep.

With strained, clumsy movements, he brought that hand around, as though the light weapon in his grip was an almost intolerable weight.

The scents from the sodden earth filled her with an intolerable weight of memory; not that of individual occasions but of the entire past.

An intolerable weight rested upon his eyeballs, forcing them back into his head.

There were crashes and there was a feeling of intolerable weight which he could feel, despite his agony.

Over two evenings, all that is unknown and unfathomable to these small lives piles up as an intolerable weight.

He felt Discipline leaving him, felt the massive fatigue, like an intolerable weight, press down on his abused body.

All that was left was the intolerable weight of government paperwork and the long hours wondering where she'd gone.

The whole frame of thepinnace groaned as the roof bulged inwards, forced down by some massive, intolerable weight.