weary load

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Borne down with a weary load of debt and dwindling earnings, MOP subsided into bankruptcy.

From Time Magazine Archive

I thank thee that thou on the pilgrim road Hast been my comrade true; Often wert thou a weary load, Yet didst thou bear me through.

From Matelda and the Cloister of Hellfde Extracts from the Book of Matilda of Magdeburg by Magdeburg, Matilda of

He who seeks the happiness of his life upon the world's highways, must learn to carry, as best he may, the weary load of trouble that "flesh is heir to."

From Arthur O'Leary His Wanderings And Ponderings In Many Lands by Lever, Charles James

And a weary load is a hump, Heaven knows, only to be cast off in the grave.

From Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. II by Melville, Herman

Life is a bitter, weary load, The world a slough.

From The Poems of Giacomo Leopardi by Townsend, Frederick