But the spirit of foreboding lay onerously upon him, and he slept so fitfully that the first gray of dawn found him up and abroad.
"The Tempering"
Charles Neville Buck
The Christian State can only behave towards the Jew in the manner of a Christian State, that is in a privileged manner, by granting the separation of the Jew from the other subjects, but causing him to feel the pressure of the other separated spheres, and all the more onerously inasmuch as the Jew is in religious antagonism to the dominant religion.
"Selected Essays"
Karl Marx
She used to read to the blind, and, more onerously, to the deaf.
"Georgina's Reasons"
Henry James