The others walked with leaden steps.

With leaden steps he climbed the staircase to his floor.

With leaden steps they accompanied their guard up the winding stairway to the tower rooms that had been furnished for the king.

He took two leaden steps forward.

With leaden steps he dragged himself away.

With leaden steps he picked his way over the lifeless bodies of the enemy dead, gasping now in unrestrained fury and helplessness.

Pennington plodded with leaden steps up the ramp and lurched like dead weight into his hammock.

Only the insistence of the wolves kept him going, each leaden, snow-kicking step taken just one at a time.

He began to walk back to the bathroom door, step by leaden step.

In the blistering heat . . . he walked with the leaden steps of an old man, the strength sapped from him.