fardel
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Well-a-day! securely I can carry a fardel without tarnishing my spurs?
From In Convent Walls The Story of the Despensers by M. (Madelaine) Irwin
The maiden's future is a fardel upon my shoulders now, and they are not over strong.
From Standish of Standish A story of the Pilgrims by Jane G. (Jane Goodwin) Austin
Then drops the soul her fardel, as the travel-tir'd World-weary wand'rer touches home, returns, sinks down 10 In joy to slumber on the bed desir'd so long.
From The Poems and Fragments of Catullus by Robinson Ellis
I trembled for fear in his virtuous scorn he should take his fardel away again.
From Helmet of Navarre by Bertha Runkle
To mark if e'er I knew him? and to crave His pity for the fardel that I bear.
From The Divine Comedy by Dante, Illustrated, Purgatory, Volume 3 by Henry Francis Cary
And then there it was, in “To be, or not to be”: “Who would fardels bear, to grunt and sweat under a weary life?”
From The New Yorker ● Apr. 23, 2016
To be, or not to be; that is the bare bodkin/ That makes calamity of so long life;/ For who would fardels bear, till Birnam Wood do come to Dunsinane .
From Time Magazine Archive
In the "To be or not to be" soliloquy, fardels is replaced, but the word bodkin remains.
From Time Magazine Archive
In his "To be or not to be" soliloquy, Hamlet asks himself why he should bear fardels.
From Time Magazine Archive
And the Emperor received “two fardels of cinnamon.”
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
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