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Definition of onerous:

  • (adjective) not easily borne; wearing;

Sentence Examples:

Don Francisco de Mello, a nobleman of highly reputed talents, was the next who obtained this onerous situation.

This tax was felt to be exceedingly onerous, and in addition to this by the beginning of the twentieth century it became clear that the land acquired in 1861 was not nearly enough to support a growing population.

Successful industry is especially necessary at the present time, when large public debts and onerous taxes are imposed to maintain and protect the liberties of the people and the integrity of the Union.

It seems to me that the time has arrived when the people may justly demand some relief from their present onerous burden, and that by due economy in the various branches of the public service this may readily be afforded.

Let it be free from onerous taxation, and left unfettered by special duties to do its just work.'

The terms did not seem altogether onerous to the old General, who was rather fond of meeting dignitaries.

Relieved from her onerous duties in connection with the State society, she at once set about working up the Whole World's Temperance Convention in New York, for which she felt a personal responsibility.

The auditors recommend that some changes be made in the duties levied on goods, which are onerous on the merchants.

She sighed, and shivered and stiffened her back as if there had fallen on her something magnificent and onerous.

His new duties were not onerous, consisting of a concert once a week, and in practicing and rehearsing the orchestra.

Francis having consented to the onerous conditions imposed by Charles V., was at last liberated.

In another respect French is peculiarly suited to the onerous task imposed upon him.

Perhaps, however, no minister gets more bullied than he by the press, and men say that he will be very willing to give up to some political enemy the control of the police, and the onerous duty of judging in all criminal appeals.

For this reason, the intervening years, though pregnant with the finished character and distinguished capacity which fitted him for his onerous work, and though by no means devoid of incident, must be hastily sketched.

I fully appreciate how onerous your office must be and much though I regret that you do not see your way to visiting this country in the near future, I hope we may some day have the pleasure of welcoming you here.

Whilst it may be presumptuous of me to hope that I could discharge an office so varied and so onerous...

I would at this moment willingly accede to any terms, however onerous, in order to secure peace for my country.

Preaching was the least of the chaplains' duties; burying was the most onerous.

They secured him, however, and carried him home, when they fed him on raw flesh, hares, and birds, till they found the charge too onerous, and gave him up to the public charity of the village till he should be recognized by his parents.

This is the period for the new States to produce this beneficial change in the policy of the Government, (instead of) the present onerous system, which arrests the cultivation of our soil, and growth of our country.'

No difficulty as to amusement or provision, however, could compare for one moment with the ordeal of that first hour, that hour of reception and conversation, the horrors of which each fresh hostess seemed to find more onerous than the last.

She was, however, not alone; for the widow of a missionary resided with her, and shared her onerous duties in instructing the native girls, an occupation in which both ladies took the greatest delight.

Marjorie stopped to acknowledge the introduction, then onerous as was the task, she went staunchly to it.

The place was not yet free from dust and odor, but Dick's hardy life was teaching him to take as trifles things that civilization usually regarded as onerous, and he felt quite comfortable where he lay.

The first two expired under their onerous burden, and the last two failed.

His originally powerful mind is excited to fresh exertion by his onerous and exalted position.

Into this new arena he entered with a resolute determination to succeed, and he spared no pains, effort, or sacrifice to fit himself thoroughly for the onerous duties of the office to which he had been appointed.

An unstable government and an onerous system of export taxes hamper trade.

And there are other cares, less onerous indeed, but still needful.

It was on board a destroyer that I came to know him really well, and here his work was onerous and responsible.

And when he had confessed that his duties were onerous, she had brightened.

Madame de Neuillant, in her rage, imposed upon her the most humiliating and onerous domestic services.

They relate more particularly to the duties performed personally by the commander or, where such duties become too onerous for performance by one person, by specifically designated members of his staff.

Petersburg, without being onerous or vexatious, are quite as good as those of any large city in Europe.

Probably his being thrown thus early in life into the discharge of onerous and important duties, had an important effect in producing that firmness and maturity of judgment by which his mind was subsequently distinguished.

On the 19th of September these three gentlemen cheerfully undertook the difficult and onerous task urged upon them, and for three months they abandoned their own private interests and devoted their entire time to it.

In his annual message on December 6, 1881, President Arthur cautiously observed that it seemed to him "that the time has arrived when the people may justly demand some relief from the present onerous burden."

Again, and more intensely than ever, she desired a fixed occupation, no matter how onerous, how irksome.

Your duty is unpleasant, and the duties you have already undergone have been onerous and burdensome.

In spite of their wish the friends had to yield; but they made him promise, at parting, that he would send for them at once in case the duties became more onerous, or he should find they had not force enough.

What an admirable arrangement it is that here affords to the humblest well-behaved person books, shelter, warmth, and light, from ten in the morning until ten at night, free of all charge or onerous conditions!

My duties were not at all onerous; on the other hand, I became relieved from all details for drill guard, police duty, and a hundred and one other little "turns" that catch everybody in the ranks, both in the Rebel and Union armies.

At any rate, the slight wrong thus done to his own flesh and blood in insisting on onerous and unfit labor, was but one of the consequences growing out of the original wrong done by him for years in regard to the field itself.

The business was not of an onerous nature, but Walter had been detained for some time over it.

He chuckled, as though the task was not as onerous as his words implied, and hitched his trousers.

And thereupon relieve the deceased Lady of the House of the onerous task of laboring in the fields.

Precarious as these means of subsistence seem, he preferred the independence thus obtained to an assured position which would have involved obligations to a patron or professional duties which his weak health would have made onerous.

The position of ministerial organist, besides being both onerous and unpleasant, was to me an actual money loss.

The onerous duties his work at the Mint entailed severely tried his energies, and in quitting a purely scientific career he was subjected to the cares of official life, for which he was not fitted by temperament.

He quickly put a stop to it, however, by declaring his entire unwillingness to take the office, not that he did not consider it an honor, but because at his then age, he was not willing to enter upon its onerous duties.

On the contrary, it is both the duty and the interest of those who derive the most direct benefit from the laws of property to give impartial consideration to all proposals for rendering those laws in any way less onerous to the majority.

The administrative board and the organizing committee have discharged their onerous and responsible tasks with signal fidelity and ability, and the success that has rewarded their efforts is a lasting monument to their wisdom.

And the onerous duties of guardianship would pass to more capable hands.

The "innocents" are robbed without exciting a passing remark; but when an attempt is made to relieve the people from the onerous burdens imposed upon them, we hear on all sides the cry of "innocent purchasers!"

He was a solitary man; separated from such near relations as he had, by differences as well religious as political, and from the world at large by the grandeur of a position which imposed burdens as onerous as the privileges it conferred were rare.

The long task which I had undertaken soon exhibited its truly onerous character, and daily grew in urgency, until that which promised to be a pleasure had been transformed into an exhausting and continuous labor.

French people cannot be persuaded to pay onerous taxes.

He relieved the sheriff, however, of his more onerous and invidious duties.

The capital always spares more or less of onerous and irksome human exertion.

He recovered, however, and took charge of his grandchild, the father very willingly resigning the onerous burden.

It was the constantly recurring necessity of being present at the religious services which made the position onerous.

Before I pass on from the subject of the guards, I should like to put once again before the reader the onerous and, indeed, dangerous nature of their duties, and the admirable and faithful way in which they performed them.

If any proof of these high qualities is required, it will be furnished in the fact that notwithstanding the difficult, delicate, and onerous duties cast upon them, no instance of their abuse of these powers has ever occurred.

Though it must be confessed that the Fray's duties were anything but onerous; now, as in former days, he showed himself a man fond of quiet, who for the most part held his peace, and let every one do what was right in his own eyes.

The tolls were so onerous, as to double and often quadruple the cost of production.

Not by suppressing the useful effect, but by substituting gratuitous for onerous utility, natural for social wealth.

They do for us gratuitously what labor does only for an onerous consideration.

Captain Kidd would have lost half the troop in this onerous wintry expedition with an inferior table.

Nothing could better mark the extent of my father's difficulty than the fact that he had to hand over these onerous duties to us, his daughters, two girls fresh from a dreary country life, and hardly out of our teens.

The somewhat onerous task of obtaining consent from about two hundred authors has been turned to a pleasure, by the evidence of interest taken in this, the first collection of the later growth of this branch of poetic art.

I fully appreciate how onerous your office must be at the present time; and much though I regret that you do not see your way to visiting this country in the near future, I hope that we may some day have the pleasure of welcoming you here.

May he likewise ask two favors of the intelligent reader; neither of them he trusts unreasonably onerous?

It was felt that each of these great departments of the Government was already so severely burdened, so weighed down with manifold duties, that it was hardly in condition to assume a new trust, so grave and onerous as that proposed.

Even these duties will be far less onerous than they now are, when we have become intelligent enough to see that the best way for every man to secure his own freedom and comfort is to respect the freedom and the rights of others.

Even if subsisting now, they cannot be onerous.

The necessary reduction in our public revenues can, I am sure, be made without making the smaller burden more onerous than the larger by reason of the disabilities and limitations which the process of reduction puts upon both capital and labor.

At a large part of our Consulates the office quarters and the clerical force are inadequate to the performance of the onerous duties imposed by the recent provisions of our immigration laws as well as by our increasing trade.

Such agencies would be onerous and cumbersome.

The most onerous duties pertaining to his holy office were visitation of the sick and burial of the dead.

The presumption is that he would not soon absent himself from his post of duty, where new and onerous responsibilities had been imposed upon him by the recent death of the senior partner of the house with which he was connected.

Clement was, however, penniless and unable to meet a tithe of these onerous conditions.

No wonder he had been obliged to contract debts, to enter into impossibly onerous agreements!

Let these popular pages lead us to the study of nature, and we shall find our labor far from onerous and full of interest, daily increasing to the end, when we shall know no more of earth, or chemistry.

His other duties were numerous and important: he exercised, in particular, the immediate control of the attendants, a responsibility the more onerous in proportion to the continual increase of the establishment.

The first two expired under their onerous burdens, and the last two failed.

In conformity with the law that organs develop in proportion as they are exercised, the jaws are relatively large where the demands made on them are great; and diminish in size as their functions become less numerous and less onerous.

Having suffered the onerous labor of reading them, I now offer sworn witness to their relative mildness.

What authority have they for omitting all the more onerous parts of the ceremonial, and retaining only the rich garments and lights and fragrant incense, which please the senses without imposing any particular burden?

The heaviest burdens which the feudal system had imposed on the rural population had without doubt been withdrawn and mitigated; but it is not sufficiently known that for these burdens others had been substituted, perhaps more onerous.

The substitution of taxes less onerous to the people in the mode of levying for those then existing is also desired.

From the day he assumed the high charge of superintendent of finance, his duties were onerous and multifarious.

Our people have by this time purchased the significant lesson that it is impossible to create an elective judiciary, worthy of esteem and capable of discharging the onerous functions committed to their custody.

The onerous duties of her husband's office compelled him to leave her alone a great deal, and even in her extremely active life there were lonely hours when she needed a living creature that was faithfully devoted to her.

Zigzag was the only one that objected, and he did it through simple stubbornness, for his burden was not onerous.

I feel them to have been onerous, and I believe them to have been, in some respects, unexampled.

There is no shirking of the onerous duties of their position.

It would be for her to form a committee of the ladies of the town, to collect subscriptions, and to take upon herself, in a word, all the delicate and onerous duties which are connected with an appeal to the charity of the public.

Four shillings a week she is to receive for her onerous task.

The one is begot of onerous toil and must be paid for.

It is partly, no doubt, because in an unwary moment I accepted this responsible office, which has such onerous duties.