fardel

Example Sentences

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“Truly, Mistress, home to Staplehurst, and the fardel holdeth broadcloth for my lads’ new jerkins.”

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

"Woe's my old bones!" he was muttering: "here's a fardel for a man o' my years!"

From The Splendid Spur by Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas, Sir

I’ll rest my fardel a bit on the stile while Emmet comes up.”

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

I observed one bringing in a fardel very carefully concealed under an old embroidered cloak, which, upon his throwing it into the heap, I discovered to be poverty.

From The Young Gentleman and Lady's Monitor, and English Teacher's Assistant by Moore, John Hamilton

He, who in the old days had shouldered with a smile responsibilities which would have set his elders sweating with apprehension, found the light weight of Gramarye a fardel to make him stagger.

From Anthony Lyveden by Yates, Dornford