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  • noun Plural form of fardel.

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Examples

  • SwtPrince_dk Who would fardels bear to grunt and sweat under a weary life

    Lance Mannion: 2009

  • SwtPrince_dk Who would fardels bear to grunt and sweat under a weary life

    The tragedy will not be twittered 2009

  • Who would fardels bare to grunt and sweat under a weary life but that the dread of something after death, the undiscovered country from whose bourn no traveler returns, puzzles the will and makes us rather bear those ills we have than to fly to ones that we know not of?

    shakespearean costume - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008

  • He now needs decoding: looking up "" fardels '' and "" bodkin, '' disentangling syntax: "" How in my words somever she be shent, '' says Hamlet before confronting his mother, "" To give them seals, never, my soul, consent! ''

    Shakespeare 2008

  • These fardels of the heart — the heart whose sweat was gore.

    Childe Harold's Pilgrimage 2007

  • Forsytes had once lived, and now but one dwelt on like a winter fly; the house into which Soames had come and out of which he had gone times without number, divested of, or burdened with, fardels of family gossip; the house of the “old people” of another century, another age.

    To Let 2004

  • Captaine, laden with 16 chests of Cochonillio, certaine fardels of raw silke, and about 4000 hides.

    The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

  • Moreouer, the saide customers haue ordained betweene themselues, that the saide marchants shall put or make vp no cloth into fardels, to transport out of the realme, vnlesse certaine men appointed by them for the same purpose bee there present, to see what maner of clothes they bee, vnder paine of the forfeiture of the saide goods.

    The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

  • To be, or not to be; that is the bare bodkin That makes calamity of so long life; For who would fardels bear, till Birnam Wood do come to Dunsinane, But that the fear of something after death

    The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn 2003

  • It is, perhaps, the first instance on record in modern times where these semi-lunar fardels have been looked upon with respect and curiosity.

    The American Missionary — Volume 43, No. 05, May, 1889 Various

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