fardel

Example Sentences

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

From My Lords of Strogue, Vol. I (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union by Wingfield, Lewis

He, who in the old days had shouldered with a smile responsibilities which would have set his elders sweating with apprehension, found the light weight of Gramarye a fardel to make him stagger.

From Anthony Lyveden by Yates, Dornford

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.

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

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