fardel
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I trembled for fear in his virtuous scorn he should take his fardel away again.
From Helmet of Navarre by Runkle, Bertha
Time, so far, had brought with him only a complication of troubles, more tangled than his usual fardel.
From My Lords of Strogue, Vol. I (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union by Wingfield, Lewis
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
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.
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
And then there it was, in “To be, or not to be”: “Who would fardels bear, to grunt and sweat under a weary life?”
From The New Yorker ● Apr. 23, 2016
In his "To be or not to be" soliloquy, Hamlet asks himself why he should bear fardels.
From Time Magazine Archive
To be, or not to be; that is the bare bodkin/ That makes calamity of so long life;/ For who would fardels bear, till Birnam Wood do come to Dunsinane .
From Time Magazine Archive
Thus, in a Hamlet for 1984, "Who would fardels bear?" becomes "Who would burdens bear?"
From Time Magazine Archive
And the Emperor received “two fardels of cinnamon.”
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
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