fardel
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To torment myself with the detail of the noisome contents of the fardel will but make it stick the closer, first to my imagination and then to my unwilling will.
From The Literary Remains of Samuel Taylor Coleridge by Henry Nelson Coleridge
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 M. Lewin
Remembering the which, I gathered unto myself divers pretty toys—you shall hear them sweetly a-jingle in my fardel here.
From Beltane the Smith by Jeffery Farnol
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 Coventry Kersey Dighton Patmore
His gold chain of pride he hath laid aside, And furred gown of the scarlet red;He set on his back a fardel and pack, And a hood on his grizzled head.
From More Bywords by Charlotte Mary Yonge
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 the "To be or not to be" soliloquy, fardels is replaced, but the word bodkin remains.
From Time Magazine Archive
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In his "To be or not to be" soliloquy, Hamlet asks himself why he should bear fardels.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Thus, in a Hamlet for 1984, "Who would fardels bear?" becomes "Who would burdens bear?"
From Time Magazine Archive
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And the Emperor received “two fardels of cinnamon.”
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
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