fardel
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Such are bordel, chapel, duel, fardel, gabel, gospel, gravel, lamel, label, libel, marvel, model, novel, parcel, quarrel, and spinel.
From The Grammar of English Grammars by Goold Brown
What though the world once went hard with me, when I was fain to carry my fardel a foot-back?
From Shakespeare's Lost Years in London, 1586-1592 by Arthur Acheson
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
Your baby-days flow'd in a much-troubled channel; I see you, as then, in your impotent strife, A tight little bundle of wailing and flannel, Perplex'd with the newly-found fardel of Life.
From The Ontario Readers: The High School Reader, 1886 by Ontario. Ministry of Education
I observed one bringing in a fardel very carefully concealed under an old embroidered cloak, which, upon his throwing it into the heap, I discovered to be poverty.
From The Young Gentleman and Lady's Monitor, and English Teacher's Assistant by John Hamilton Moore
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
Thus, in a Hamlet for 1984, "Who would fardels bear?" becomes "Who would burdens bear?"
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
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
And the Emperor received “two fardels of cinnamon.”
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
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