fardel

Example Sentences

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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

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

As he spoke, a dozen men rushed forward, each screening himself behind a huge fardel of brushwood.

From The White Company by Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir

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 Feis, Jacob

What though the world once went hard with me, when I was fain to carry my fardel a foot-back?

From Shakespeare's Lost Years in London, 1586-1592 by Acheson, Arthur