fardel

Example Sentences

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To torment myself with the detail of the noisome contents of the fardel will but make it stick the closer, first to my imagination and then to my unwilling will.

From The Literary Remains of Samuel Taylor Coleridge by Coleridge, Henry Nelson

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

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 Brown, Alice

Item, they took out of the foresaid ship from Roger Hood, one fardel of cloth, and one chest with diuers goods, to the value of 58. lib.

From The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 05 Central and Southern Europe by Hakluyt, Richard

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