Sit down to read and the flywheel of work-related thoughts keeps spinning, or else you're so exhausted that a challenging book's the last thing you need.
It was not the dead-tiredness that comes through brief and excessive effort, from which recovery is a matter of hours; but it was the dead-tiredness that comes through the slow and prolonged strength drainage of months of toil.
As you saw, in that ride i did about 1700 meters of climbing. I was doing some really hard efforts uphill and the weight of the inner tubes was definitely noticeable. How light are we talking.
They heard in the passage the sharp noise of a wooden leg on the boards. It was Hippolyte bringing back Emma's luggage. In order to put it down he described painfully a quarter of a circle with his stump.
The sea was very rough in the straits, full of eddies formed by the counter–currents, and the chopping waves broke her course, whilst it became very difficult to stand on deck.
Dave refused to run quietly on the trail behind the sled, where the going was easy, but continued to flounder alongside in the soft snow, where the going was most difficult, till exhausted.