fardel
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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
What a satire was in this their so contemptible a fardel, who would lightly toss away another man's dear life!
From Idonia: A Romance of Old London by Arthur F. Wallis
Remembering the which, I gathered unto myself divers pretty toys—you shall hear them sweetly a-jingle in my fardel here.
From Beltane the Smith by Jeffery Farnol
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 Dornford Yates
As he spoke, a dozen men rushed forward, each screening himself behind a huge fardel of brushwood.
From The White Company by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
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
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
And the Emperor received “two fardels of cinnamon.”
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
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