fardel

Example Sentences

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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 Yonge, Charlotte Mary

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 Coleridge, Henry Nelson

Well-a-day! securely I can carry a fardel without tarnishing my spurs?

From In Convent Walls The Story of the Despensers by Irwin, M. (Madelaine)

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)

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.