fardel

Example Sentences

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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

Then drops the soul her fardel, as the travel-tir'd World-weary wand'rer touches home, returns, sinks down 10 In joy to slumber on the bed desir'd so long.

From The Poems and Fragments of Catullus by Ellis, Robinson

“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.

With no fardel on its own back, yet so imperious towards those who came labouring after it, Hellas, in its early freshness, looked as distant from him even then as it does from ourselves.

From Marius the Epicurean — Volume 1 by Pater, Walter

I trembled for fear in his virtuous scorn he should take his fardel away again.

From Helmet of Navarre by Runkle, Bertha