fardel
Example Sentences
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“Truly, Mistress, home to Staplehurst, and the fardel holdeth broadcloth for my lads’ new jerkins.”
From All's Well Alice's Victory by Lewin, M.
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
I’ll rest my fardel a bit on the stile while Emmet comes up.”
From All's Well Alice's Victory by Lewin, M.
There was a subdued s-s-s-h as the white fardel slid slowly seaward, followed by a sullen plunge.
From The Log of a Sea-Waif Being Recollections of the First Four Years of My Sea Life by Bullen, Frank T.
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