Burthens [noun]

Dorothy had tried her best to relieve Letty of half her burthen, and in return had been made a bone of contention between them.

I should be sorry to lay upon you, my dear madam, a burthen greater than the one you have already to bear.

But there, all novels are a heavy burthen while they are doing, and a sensible disappointment when they are done.

Her length is six hundred and ninety-five feet; her breadth eighty-five feet, and her burthen twenty-two thousand tons.

When John Clarke was sent to negotiate the second charter he was obliged to burthen his estate with a mortgage.

The burthen was soon felt, and smuggling, the natural relief of overtaxed commerce, became general.

The town will have convenient ground for drying fish, and ships of burthen can anchor near it in the bay.

She asked no other question, however, and left the burthen of the silence with me.

There was no renewal of the burthen of despair that had so long haunted his evenings.

It was not for nothing that they made the burthen of my wishes all night through.