fardel

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Eye-colours for dying blue, almost as good as indigo, made up in round cakes, and packed 100 cakes in a fardel, worth fifty to sixty.

From A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 09 Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time by Kerr, Robert

“Truly, Mistress, home to Staplehurst, and the fardel holdeth broadcloth for my lads’ new jerkins.”

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

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

It was selfish of me to link you with so much wretchedness, and join you with me in bearing the fardel of never-ending anxiety and suspense.”

From The Phantom Ship by Marryat, Frederick

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