fardel

Example Sentences

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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

Such are bordel, chapel, duel, fardel, gabel, gospel, gravel, lamel, label, libel, marvel, model, novel, parcel, quarrel, and spinel.

From The Grammar of English Grammars by Brown, Goold

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

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

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.