fardel

Example Sentences

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To mark if e'er I knew him?  and to crave His pity for the fardel that I bear.

From The Divine Comedy by Dante, Illustrated, Purgatory, Volume 3 by Cary, Henry Francis

In travail, as in tears, With the fardel of her years Overprest,— In mercy was she borne Where the weary ones and worn Are at rest.

From A Selection from the Works of Frederick Locker by Locker-Lampson, Hannah Jane

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.

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

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