fardel

Example Sentences

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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 Irwin, M. (Madelaine)

He, who in the old days had shouldered with a smile responsibilities which would have set his elders sweating with apprehension, found the light weight of Gramarye a fardel to make him stagger.

From Anthony Lyveden by Yates, Dornford

No doubt this was true, and no doubt it braved her for the carrying of her boy's garnish, otherwise a risky fardel for a young woman.

From The Forest Lovers by Hewlett, Maurice Henry

With no fardel on its own back, yet so imperious towards those who came labouring after it, Hellas, in its early freshness, looked as distant from him even then as it does from ourselves.

From Marius the Epicurean — Volume 1 by Pater, Walter

After venting that brief soliloquy he sat silent a little while, till Leonard was nearly out of sight, then rose, resumed his fardel, and, creeping quick along the hedgerows, followed Leonard toward the town.

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 3, July, 1851 by Various