fardel

Example Sentences

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And the Emperor received “two fardels of cinnamon.”

From Literature

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

Time, so far, had brought with him only a complication of troubles, more tangled than his usual fardel.

From Project Gutenberg

With a bare bodkin who shall fardels carry?

From Project Gutenberg

In travail, as in tears, With the fardel of her years Overprest,— In mercy was she borne Where the weary ones and worn Are at rest.

From Project Gutenberg