fardel

Example Sentences

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"Whom would fardels bear under such a weary and long life.... when he could his quietus make with a bare bodkin?"

From New York Times

And the Emperor received “two fardels of cinnamon.”

From Literature

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

Time, so far, had brought with him only a complication of troubles, more tangled than his usual fardel.

From Project Gutenberg

The sharp corners of the fardels were ploughing into his back.

From Project Gutenberg