Ile have a pull at these pomcitrons for my noble Captaine; & if I had a Porters basket full of 'em I would count them no burthen in requitall of some part of the love he hath shewen me.
On landing they made their way among the bushes, taking turns to relieve each other in lugging their burthen up the rocky bank.
The pistol was uncocked; the burthen was resumed, and the party slowly toiled up the bank.
The Swallow, of burthen 40 tunnes: in her was captaine Maurice Browne.
The Squirrill, of burthen 10 tunnes: in which went captaine William Andrewes, and one Cade master.
Walter Raleigh, of the burthen of 200 tunnes, was then Vice-admirall: in which went M.
The Golden hinde, of burthen 40 tunnes, was then Reare-admirall: in which went Edward Hayes captaine and owner, and William Cox of Limehouse master.
And when the ship was cast away the boate was a sterne being in burthen one tunne and an halfe: there was left in the boate one oare and nothing els.
God knows I am ready to bear my burthen alone; but sometimes I must speak.
It seemed to prove more depth of character than one would have expected, that she was in any way able or willing to help her sister-in-law to bear her secret burthen, let that burthen be what it might.
Long distances, variation of the climes, storm and high ocean seas--a burthen of goods brought from a far country, all contribute to make an impression that the tale of a coasting voyage could not produce.
She was staying at Islington with a sister of her step-mother's, she told me; but she couldn't be a burthenon her any longer.
One of their little asses will travel with his burthen about five or six leagues a day, and day by day; a mule from six to eight leagues.
Many another family may have its own lamentable secret, the burthen of which each member has to bear, and carry in society a cheerful countenance, even as this of mine.
My burthen of years had been lifted off me for ever and ever.
Thus, in one short half hour, the burthen of a lifetime was laid down for ever.
First, because I have been made to learn that the doom and burthen of our life is bound for ever on man's shoulders, and when the attempt is made to cast it off, it but returns upon us with more unfamiliar and more awful pressure.
It was not for nothing that they made the burthen of my wishes all night through.
Epigrams, pointless letters, amorous verses, and University grievances are the continual burthen of the song.
In that spacious place ships of the greatest burthen may ride afloat; but the best place for ships is near that part of the land on which the town stands.
An ordonnance, issued in the year 1511, specified, that as beasts of burthen were so much multiplied, the Indians should not be made to carry or drag heavy loads.
For a long time I had said nothing to Mary of the burthen these pretences were to me; it had seemed a monstrous ingratitude to find the slightest flaw in the passionate love and intimacy she had given me.
It was the empire of the White Man's Burthen in those days; the sordid anti-climax of the Tariff Reform Movement was still some years ahead of us.
I could not go home with the immense burthen of thought and new ideas and emotions that had come upon me.
It is not only the workers who are saying let us go free, manage things differently so that we may have our lives relieved from this intolerable burthen of constant toil, but the women also are saying let us go free.
Rightly answered; and, for the same reason, a porter with a load on his back leans forward, to prevent his burthen from throwing the line of direction out of the base behind.
But my chief consolation is that the beloved of my youth and the friend of my age is already risen, and has cast off the burthen of her mortal cares and pains, and my only hope that, God willing, I may follow quickly.
Then, chiding soft the tear, I whisper low, haply she too has sigh'd That thou art far away: a thought so sweet Awhile my labouring soul will of its burthen cheat.
The Hopewell of London of the burthen of 120 tunnes, whereof was M.
William Crafton, and the Chancewel of London of the burthen of 70 tunnes, whereof was M.
Though he maintains that the burthen of proof rests with his adversaries, yet he does set himself to demonstrate that the doctrine of eternal punishment contradicts the attributes of God.
The ingenious sophistry by which our author seeks to shift the burthen of proof from his own shoulders, may be exposed more clearly by the following illustration: God alone exists from eternity.
I have had a hard struggle with myself lately to get over the temptation I had to lay down the burthen at once, and be free as spirits are, and leave this horrid world behind me.
Genoa has a bad atmosphere for me, I fear, and nothing but the horror of being a burthen to my family prevents my accompanying Jane.
I feel interested for his happiness and welfare, but he is not the being who could make life feel less a burthen to me than it does.
We shall see; if no change comes, I shall be unable to support the burthen of time, and no change, if it hurt not his dear head, can be for the worse.
Can I not yet search, discover her, and remove from my mind the anxious burthenwhich her remembrance imposes on it?
For so many miles had this fleet and footless beast of burthen charioted our fortunes, that we turned our back upon it with a sense of separation.
The burthen of trying to raise the tone of the whole service to a really rejoicing thankful character wholly, I suppose, upon myself, and I so unequal to it.
Iodine has failed, and other attempts at a cure fail also; and it is only a question of time when the soul will be delivered from the burthen of the flesh.
But his work was not done; school instantly succeeded in the same building, and though seven native teachers were working their classes, the burthen of it fell on him.
