1.   He was probably as tough as old leather, cycling his rural route with a heavy sack every morning.

2.   Don DeLillo mounted the stage steps as if he were carrying the thunderous applause greeting him on his shoulders in heavy sacks.

3.   Porters in old clothes and rubber boots almost ran as they heaved heavy sacks and bundles.

4.   Richard Dumas looked like a guy hauling a heavy sack of rocks uphill just a few minutes after the Suns started practicing Friday.

5.   In the narrow streets of the Aida camp, men hefted heavy sacks of cement and fashioned makeshift patches of boards for holes in doors, walls and windows.

6.   They not only bake, but heft heavy sacks of wheat and salt, stoke the blazing fire, and keep watch over the compound at night.

7.   With a natural rosy blush, cotton-bearded Santas stoically carry their heavy sacks dressed in his red long robes.

8.   The busiest looters were covered in sweat and dusted in flour as they struggled to load the heavy sacks onto vehicles.