fardel

Example Sentences

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Long before Shakspere, perhaps with fardel on his back, travelled to London, the stage, not only in the capital, but in the whole country, had begun to exercise its attractive power upon the people's imagination.

From Shakspere and Montaigne by Feis, Jacob

As he spoke, a dozen men rushed forward, each screening himself behind a huge fardel of brushwood.

From The White Company by Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir

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 A Selection from the Works of Frederick Locker by Locker-Lampson, Hannah Jane

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

Your baby-days flow'd in a much-troubled channel; I see you, as then, in your impotent strife, A tight little bundle of wailing and flannel, Perplex'd with the newly-found fardel of Life.

From The Ontario Readers: The High School Reader, 1886 by Ontario. Ministry of Education