How To Use Burthen In A Sentence
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The delight of Sir Hugh in regaining her, consisted not merely of the renovation of his first prejudice in her favour; it was strengthened by the restoration it afforded his own mind to its natural state, and the relief of being disburthened of a task he was so ill calculated to undertake, as superintending, in any sort, intellectual pursuits.
Camilla
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It is not my design to destroy your immortal soul; or bid you seek the grave, burthened with the weight of sins unexpiated.
The Monk
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Even for him it was no small effort, for his burthen was a sturdy man with the solidity of years, and nearly helpless, save that the warmth of Harold's body did give him just life and instinct to hold on, and let himself be bound to him with the long plaid so as least to impede his movements; but only one possessed of Harold's almost giant strength could have thus clambered the cutting at the nearest point to Arghouse and plodded through the snow.
My Young Alcides
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In a case where two propositions are diametrically opposite, the mind believes that which is least incomprehensible; — it is easier to suppose that the universe has existed from all eternity than to conceive a being beyond its limits capable of creating it: if the mind sinks beneath the weight of one, is it an alleviation to increase the intolerability of the burthen?
The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley
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The girl did not look at all like a maiden uneasy about her lost lover, but much more like one enjoying for the moment the immunity from a kind of burthen; and, as she smiled, called for Stephen's help in her little arrangements, and treated him in the friendly manner of old times, he could not but wonder at the panic that had overpowered him for a time like a fever of the mind.
The Armourer's Prentices
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In the first case, his pleasure consisteth in two conditions: first, in the having gained his fortune, and secondly, in the laudable115 issue of his quest; and in the other case, his pleasure consisteth, first, in his readiness to seek his daily bread; secondly, in his abstaining from being a burthen to the folk; and thirdly, in his freedom from liability to blame.
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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The walk was finished in silence after this, for Luke had disburthened himself of thoughts to an extent that left his conversational resources quite barren, and Mr. Tulliver had relapsed from his recollections into a painful meditation on the choice of hardships before him.
IX. An Item Added to the Family Register. Book III—The Downfall
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The trade of Alexandria is very considerable; ships of almost any burthen can ride in the river.
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As far as it has prevailed, it has been a burthen upon the empire. […]
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When we have new perception we shall gladly disburthen the memory of the hoarded treasures as old rubbish.
Leaves of Life For Daily Inspiration
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The curse of their condition was more than half relieved by being disburthened of uncertainties.
The Rev. J. W. Loguen, as a Slave and as a Freeman. A Narrative of Real Life.
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To negotiate with this man was very well, but to have such a person settled in his rooms, and to be constantly burthened with such society, did not suit the
The History of Pendennis
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With the air of a subordinate grieved at the necessity of being a messenger of ill tidings, and while conscientiously determined to be frank, yet equally resolved upon shunning overstatement, Claggart, at this invitation or rather summons to disburthen, spoke up.
Billy Budd
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Never did poor prisoner long for deliverance, more than I have longed for an opportunity to disburthen my cares into your friendly bosom; and the occasion which now presents itself, is little less than miraculous — Honest Saunders Macawly, the travelling
The Expedition of Humphry Clinker
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'My advice, however, is, that you attempt, from time to time, an original sermon; and in the labour of composition, do not burthen your mind with too much at once; do not exact from yourself at one effort of excogitation, propriety of thought and elegance of expression.
Life of Johnson
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“What are you two people chattering about there?” says the Queen, who was rather good-natured, though not over-burthened with wisdom.
The Rose and the Ring
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Knowledge is no burden [burthen].
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But having thus disburthened himself of this short history of his adventures, he turned round upon me in a sharper manner than he had even done before, and said, But Hajji, my friend, in the name of the blessed
The Adventures of Hajji Baba of Ispahan
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William being then in Normandie, reteined a great power of French soldiers, both archers and footmen which togither with his Normans he brought ouer into England in haruest season, and meaning to disburthen himselfe of the charge of their keeping, he caused their finding and wages to be borne by the lords and peeres of the realme, by the shirifs of shires, and other officers.
Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland (2 of 6) England (1 of 12) William the Conqueror
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Labour is there so well rewarded that a numerous family of children, instead of being a burthen is a source of opulence and prosperity to the parents.
VIII. Book I. Of the Wages of Labour
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But from 1633 onward it became the anchor of the Jenkin family in Kent; and though passed on from brother to brother, held in shares between uncle and nephew, burthened by debts and jointures, and at least once sold and bought in again, it remains to this day in the hands of the direct line.
Memoir of Fleeming Jenkin
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~ Economy in the public expense, that labor may be lightly burthened by taxation;
Jerry Waxman: Thomas Jefferson Proved That Every Vote, Indeed, Does Count
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I can account now how it comes about that lovers, when their mistresses are cruel, run into solitude, and disburthen their minds to stocks and stones: For am I not forced to make my complaints to thee?
Clarissa Harlowe
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General prest him to confesse and there was a doctor of the Sorbon who was a counsellr of the Castelet there likewise to exhort him to disburthen his mind of any thing which might be upon it.
The Lock and Key Library The most interesting stories of all nations: Real life
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Their burthen was a door lifted from its hinges, and supported by three slender stakes drawn green from a hedgerow.
A Siren
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The burthen of "a numeroui family was alfo to be alleviated, not only to the loweft poor, but to widows and to indubious couples in a fomewhat better way of employment.
The Monthly Review
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Edgar, whom she delighted to consider as a younger Mr. Tyrold, had rather enlarged than divided them; but to return a burthen to an already burthened house, an affliction to an already afflicted parent – 'No!' she broke out, aloud, 'I cannot go home!
Camilla
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Maggie is conscious of her uniqueness in this regard: she thinks it is ‘part of the hardship of her life that there was laid upon her the burthen of larger wants than others seemed to feel’.
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Statesmen, before they valued themselves on the relief given to the people by the destruction of their revenue, ought first to have carefully attended to the solution of this problem: Whether it be more advantageous to the people to pay considerably, and to gain in proportion; or to gain little or nothing, and to be disburthened of all contribution?
Paras. 375-407
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As these passing-places consist only of narrow slips of ground, on each side of which are dangerous holes; and as fording rivers in the night is at all times an unpleasant task, I determined before we entered the water, to disburthen the men as much as possible; that in case of stepping wrong every one might be as ready, as circumstances would admit, to recover himself.
The Settlement at Port Jackson
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It may be this burthen will be a man child and inherit the Kingship after me; what sayest thou of this, O Shimas?
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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No man has a right to say unto his Maker, 'My burthen is heavier than I can bear.'
John Halifax, Gentleman
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Do not then any longer fear to part with thine existence, it will at least put an end to those richly merited torments thou hast inflicted on thyself; _Death, in delivering the earth from an incommodious burthen, will also deliver thee from thy most cruel enemy, thyself_.
The System of Nature, Volume 1
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You have these persons, then, linked together in such manner, as will render them perfectly inseparable in these various stock transactions; having dealt for some little time; having bought and having sold; having this tremendous balance, this world of Stock, under which they were, on the Saturday evening, bending and groaning, on the Monday morning they had disburthened themselves completely of this with a profit of a little more than ten thousand pounds.
The Trial of Charles Random de Berenger, Sir Thomas Cochrane, commonly called Lord Cochrane, the Hon. Andrew Cochrane Johnstone, Richard Gathorne Butt, Ralph Sandom, Alexander M'Rae, John Peter Holloway, and Henry Lyte for A Conspiracy In the Court of
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Here's one to a very doleful tune, how a usurer's wife was brought to bed of twenty money-bags at a burthen and how she longed to eat adders 'heads and toads carbonadoed.
The Winter's Tale
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So that you need not wonder much, if you see the greatest part of women (tho they trick themselves never so finely up) can hardly get husbands; and their Parents are fain at last to give a good sum of mony with them, that they may disburthen themselves of them.
The Ten Pleasures of Marriage and the Second Part, The Confession of the New Married Couple
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An inequality of years so considerable, had led him to expect that the fortune he had thus acquired, would speedily be released from the burthen with which it was at present incumbered; but his expectations proved as vain as they were mercenary, and his lady was not more the dupe of his protestations than he was himself of his own purposes.
Cecilia
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If sickness or some of those casualties which are perpetually incident to an active and laborious life, be superadded to these burthens, the distress is yet greater.
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It further provided that our civil rights have no dependance on our religious opinions, any more that our opinions in physics of geometry; and it concluded that no man shall be compelled to frequent or support any religious worship, place, or ministry whasoever, nor shall be enforced, restrained, molested, or burthened in his body or goods, nor shall otherwise suffer, on account of his religious opinions or belief.
Denis Lacorne: Rick Perry's War On The Founding Fathers
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Grading sequence, burthen structures, and the Bouma Sequence are developed in the turbidites sliding structures, which demonstrate obvious features of both the rhythmicity and the cyclicity.
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Note, To distrust Christ, and to disturb ourselves when we are in straits and difficulties, is an evidence of the weakness of our faith, which, if it were in exercise as it should be, would ease us of the burthen of care, by casting it on the Lord, who careth for us.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume V (Matthew to John)
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I know not how I shall offend in dedicating my unpolished lines to your lordship, nor how the world will censure me for choosing so strong a prop to support so weak a burthen: only, if your honour seem but pleased, I account myself highly praised, and vow to take advantage of all idle hours, till I have honoured you with some graver labour.
Venus and Adonis
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Yet withal, such was our restraint, that we talked of her still as one much misguided, as one who burthened us with anxiety, as a lamb astray, and Mrs. Milton having eaten, continued to show the finest feelings on the matter.
The Wheels of Chance: a bicycling idyll
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As a committee of Philadelphia officials noted with admiration, Baltimore was able to ‘derive an income from that class who are always the greatest burthen.’
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Formerly, for example, there was variation between d and th: father and mother were until the 16c written fader and moder; burden and murder were until the 19c written burthen and murther.
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I told her, as to her child, which she called her burthen, it should be no burthen to me; as to the rest she might do as she pleased; it might however do me this favor, that I should have no more lyings-in at the rate of £136 at a time, as I found she intended it should be now.
Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 11
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He observed that the ancients allowed of little baggage, which they very properly called "impedimenta;" whereas the moderns burthen themselves with it to such a degree, that 50,000 of our present soldiers are allowed as much baggage as was formerly thought sufficient for all the armies of the Roman empire.
Boswell's Correspondence with the Honourable Andrew Erskine, and His Journal of a Tour to Corsica
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Nor could it be said that Christ's yoke is easy, and his burthen light.
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Even in her early youth, what essential aid may an affectionate daughter render to a mother, "cumbered," perhaps, and overburthened with the cares of her household.
"She Hath Done What She Could," or the Duty and Responsibility of Woman; a Sermon, Preached in the Chapel of St. Mary's School, by the Rector, and Printed for the Pupils at Their Request
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And the guilt-burthened Soul is no longer opprest.
Captivation and Liberty in Wordsworth's Poems on Music
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Eugenia, when able, followed her and had no sooner heard the whole history, than, tenderly embracing her, she said, 'Let not this distress seem so desperate to you, my dearest sister! your own account points out to me how to relieve it, without either betraying our poor Lionel, or further weighing down our already heavily burthened friends.'
Camilla
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We ought to be resigned and cheerful in a dependent situation, when we cannot possibly provide for ourselves; but a willingness to burthen others, when we can help it by a little exertion, is not resignation – it is mere pride and indolence.
The Mother's Book
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Of masts both long, and large; with mosse put in betweene, To keepe the force of weather out, I neuer earst haue seene A grosse deuise so good, and on the roofe they lay The burthen barke, to rid the raine, and sudden showres away.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
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My Adversary himself, now drawing to a conclusion, seems to be inclining to good opinions: and as dying men, are much given to repentance, so finding his cause at the last gasp, he unburthens his Conscience and disclaims the principles of a Common-wealth, both for himself, and for both Houses of Parliament, which is indeed to be over-officious: for one of the Houses will not think they have need of such a Compurgator.
His Majesties Declaration Defended
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At the close of the services the good deacons would probably feel called upon to take the young man out behind the church and give him a little fatherly advice, the burthen of which would be to become an auctioneer or seek a situation as "spouter" for a snake side-show.
The Complete Works of Brann the Iconoclast, Volume 1.
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My mind was disburthened of its various subjects of care which I had had to communicate to Mr. Thorold; and although I had not been able entirely to prevail with him, yet I had done all I could, and my conscience was clear.
Daisy in the Field
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I told her, as to her child, which she called her burthen, it should be no burthen to me; as to the rest she might do as she pleased; it might however do me this favor, that I should have no more lyings-in at the rate of £136 at a time, as I found she intended it should be now.
Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 11
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Knowledge is no burden [burthen].
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And he carries to us a prophet's "burthen" of unspeakable import, and in words to which all through the Christian ages the soul has responded as to the words of the Holy Spirit.
Messages from the Epistle to the Hebrews
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The members of these associations were united by certain laws, which conferred peculiar privileges, called jura gentium; of these the most remarkable were, the succession to the property of every member who died without kin and intestate, and the obligation imposed on all to assist their indigent fellows under any extraordinary burthen. [
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Nignio -- stretching out his widely booted legs, as though it were a relief to him to have disburthened himself of his mystery.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 56, No. 345, July, 1844
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The reader might also raise a skeptical eyebrow when the poet proceeds to describe the singing nightingale as "disburthen [ing]" his "full soul" in an expressive activity analogous to the actions of Coleridge's own proper poet, who similarly "surrender [s] his whole spirit" (48, 29).
'Sweet Influences': Human/Animal Difference and Social Cohesion in Wordsworth and Coleridge, 1794-1806
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The cardiotachometer can incarnate the function of one's heart , reflect the burthen in the training and resume after training.
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Somerset administered two drams, one after the other, to the man with the chin-beard; who then, somewhat restored, began to confound himself in apologies for what he called his miserable nervousness, the result, he said, of a long course of dumb ague; and having taken leave with a hand that still sweated and trembled, he gingerly resumed his burthen and departed.
The Dynamiter
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Our boat was then allowed to approach the landing and disburthen itself of the gifts.
Captain Canot or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver
