fardel
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Besides carrying her own fardel, this poor wife was expected to fold and direct wrappers for her husband's precious journal, he finding "mechanical writing too exhausting and stultifying."
From The Galaxy, May, 1877 Vol. XXIII.—May, 1877.—No. 5. by Various
I find I want you to take up the fardel of public life; not to be a pessimistic complainer, standing aside with your hands in your pockets, but a citizen.
From The Day of His Youth by Alice Brown
I’ll rest my fardel a bit on the stile while Emmet comes up.”
From All's Well Alice's Victory by M. Lewin
To mark if e'er I knew him? and to crave His pity for the fardel that I bear.
From The Divine Comedy by Dante, Illustrated, Purgatory, Volume 3 by Henry Francis Cary
Long before Shakspere, perhaps with fardel on his back, travelled to London, the stage, not only in the capital, but in the whole country, had begun to exercise its attractive power upon the people's imagination.
From Shakspere and Montaigne by Jacob Feis
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
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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In the "To be or not to be" soliloquy, fardels is replaced, but the word bodkin remains.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Thus, in a Hamlet for 1984, "Who would fardels bear?" becomes "Who would burdens bear?"
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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