fardel

Example Sentences

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Trust me, I’ll look in on her, and see what I may do, so soon as I’ve borne this fardel home.

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

Your baby-days flow'd in a much-troubled channel; I see you, as then, in your impotent strife, A tight little bundle of wailing and flannel, Perplex'd with the newly-found fardel of Life.

From The Ontario Readers: The High School Reader, 1886 by Ontario. Ministry of Education

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

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

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.