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