fardel

Example Sentences

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Well-a-day! securely I can carry a fardel without tarnishing my spurs?

From In Convent Walls The Story of the Despensers by Irwin, M. (Madelaine)

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.

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

From Helmet of Navarre by Runkle, Bertha

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

I ask, for Day, the use which is the Wife’s: To bear, apart from thy delight and thee, The fardel coarse of customary life’s Exceeding injucundity.

From The Unknown Eros by Patmore, Coventry Kersey Dighton