In the son's case, the father's ponderousness had turned to gravity.

This big fellow, Eugene, usually preserved a heavy somnolent demeanour.

At the same time, certain of his heavy, languid movements suggested those of a giant stretching his limbs pending the time for action.

By one of those alleged freaks of nature, of which, however, science is now commencing to discover the laws, if physical resemblance to Pierre was perfect in Eugene, Felicite on her side seemed to have furnished him with his brains.

He offered an instance of certain moral and intellectual qualities of maternal origin being embedded in the coarse flesh he had derived from his father.