fardel
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Time, so far, had brought with him only a complication of troubles, more tangled than his usual fardel.
From My Lords of Strogue, Vol. I (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union by Lewis Wingfield
His gold chain of pride he hath laid aside, And furred gown of the scarlet red;He set on his back a fardel and pack, And a hood on his grizzled head.
From More Bywords by Charlotte Mary Yonge
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
To torment myself with the detail of the noisome contents of the fardel will but make it stick the closer, first to my imagination and then to my unwilling will.
From The Literary Remains of Samuel Taylor Coleridge by Henry Nelson Coleridge
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
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
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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
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In his "To be or not to be" soliloquy, Hamlet asks himself why he should bear fardels.
From Time Magazine Archive
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And the Emperor received “two fardels of cinnamon.”
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
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