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“We left our digging and burden-bearing; we turned from our scraping and twisting of things and words; we paused from our hurrying hither and thither and walking up and down, and asked in a half-whisper: this Death—is this Life?”
“The procession of moving teams stopped, and most of the burden-bearing warriors withdrew to the globe and stayed there.”
“The procession of moving teams stopped, and most of the burden-bearing warriors withdrew to the.: globe and stayed there.”
Star Born
“From his burden-bearing oxen, and his hordes of cavalry;”
“But besides the Pack-horses being a public institution, this was really the chief means of burden-bearing, whether in the conveyance of goods to market or of conveying friends on visits from place to place.”
Fragments of Two Centuries Glimpses of Country Life when George III. was King
“At sunrise the morning after his return from On, Kenkenes appeared at the Nile, attended by a burden-bearing slave.”
“They were burden-bearing animals, precious among Israel, for they were laden with the records of the tribes, much treasure in jewels and fine stuffs, incense, writing materials, and such things as the people would need, and were not to be had from among them, or like to be found in the places to which they might come.”
“Slavery was still the law of the land; all the toil and burden-bearing falls to the poor slave's lot.”
Bidwell's Travels, from Wall Street to London Prison Fifteen Years in Solitude
“It were not well for us to be able to avoid the burden-bearing and the tale of tired days, for God has hidden the secret of our rest in the heart of our toiling.”
“They say, of all animals the lion is the chief; and of beasts the ass is the meanest; yet, with the concurrence of the wise, the burden-bearing ass is preferable to the man-devouring lion.”
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