fardel

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Eye-colours for dying blue, almost as good as indigo, made up in round cakes, and packed 100 cakes in a fardel, worth fifty to sixty.

From A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 09 Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time by Kerr, Robert

I’ll but lay down my fardel, and then step o’er to poor Sens Bradbridge.”

From All's Well Alice's Victory by Lewin, M.

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

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

Time, so far, had brought with him only a complication of troubles, more tangled than his usual fardel.

From My Lords of Strogue, Vol. I (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union by Wingfield, Lewis