fardel

Example Sentences

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

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

What though the world once went hard with me, when I was fain to carry my fardel a foot-back?

From Shakespeare's Lost Years in London, 1586-1592 by Acheson, Arthur

No doubt this was true, and no doubt it braved her for the carrying of her boy's garnish, otherwise a risky fardel for a young woman.

From The Forest Lovers by Hewlett, Maurice Henry

I'm sore bestead, Priscilla—I have a quarrel with Myles Standish, and 't is as big a fardel as my shoulders will bear.

From Standish of Standish A story of the Pilgrims by Austin, Jane G. (Jane Goodwin)

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 Farnol, Jeffery