Fardels [noun]

As he spoke, a dozen men rushed forward, each screening himself behind a huge fardel of brushwood.

There was a subdued s-s-s-h as the white fardel slid slowly seaward, followed by a sullen plunge.

Then, seizing the good subprior in his teeth, he rushed round the field, swinging him as though he were a fardel of old clothes.

The maiden's future is a fardel upon my shoulders now, and they are not over strong. '

Cattle are most commonly attacked by fardel in summer and autumn, when they are able to get at tough, strong, and hard grass.

Some say it was a flannel seller used to live there that had a short fardel.

I trembled for fear in his virtuous scorn he should take his fardel away again.

What though the world once went hard with me, when I was fain to carry my fardel a foot-back?

He threw down his burden in triumph at the hearth-side, shouting merrily, Ass and fardel!

I know my own languor as no one else does; it is a dead down-draught, a heavy fardel.