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Sentences ending with burden

He wanted his wife to abandon his wretched carcass long ago, as she herself was sound and well, but Luka said that she was content to remain and wait on the man she loved till the spirit should be freed from its burden. [5]
He was bowing under the strain of injuries, of the ride, of his burden. [13]
A road had to be cut, over which a sledge could be hauled, and the hardy mountaineers who undertook the removal were three days in reaching the summit with their burden. [4]
I will condense this account, as follows: On the 12th of August, 1861, at the hour of the close of mass, a guide arrived out of breath at the mairie of Chamonix, and bearing on his shoulders a very lugubrious burden. [5]
At six o'clock the hearse drew up to the door to bear away its pathetic burden. [5]
Her breadth was still considerable, but the flesh, with which she had moved about so briskly a few months ago, now seemed to have become an oppressive burden. [10]
This she was sometimes permitted to do when the friends put down their heavy burden. [10]
Life to him seemed hollow, and existence but a burden. [5]
Amid all the pressure and distress that the burdens of office brought upon him, his unfailing sense of humor saved him; probably it made it possible for him to live under the burden. [7]
In the twilight poor Muss betook himself to the Nile through the grove of Hathor, with his perilous burden. [10]

Sentences containing burden two or more times

I did hate to burden his good heart and over-worked head with it, but he took hold with avidity and said it was no burden to work for his friends, but a pleasure. [5]
Our people feel the burden, but they have not yet discovered what the burden is. [9]
He felt a comfort in irretrievably committing himself, and exchanging the burden of indecision for the burden of responsibility. [8]

More example sentences with the word burden in them

And I need your true soul to help me to shake off the burden which is crushing me to the earth and choking me. [10]
What pain it would cause her, and how heavily it would burden his master's soul that he had failed to intercede for him! [10]
And Jethro's burden would be heavy enough. [9]
Out in the woods of Beedon he had attuned his flute to the stir of leaves, the murmur of streams, the song of birds, the boom and burden of storm; and it was soft and deep as the throat of the bell-bird of Australian wilds. [11]
Am not I, who brought upon you your father's curse, bound indeed to help you to free yourself from the burden of it? [10]
The patched tablecloths which he spread over the tops were coarse and much worn; the dishes carried after him by the two assistants, whose knees bent under the burden, were made of tin, and marred by many a dent. [10]
And yet there were times when he had an intolerable longing for a confidant, for some one to whom he could relieve himself of part of his burden by talking. [4]
A mysterious burden weighed on the Heart of the busy city and clicked its pulses, as a nightmare oppresses the dreamer. [10]
During his first weeks of pain and weakness, Ruth was unceasing in her ministrations; she quietly took charge of him, and with a gentle firmness resisted all attempts of Alice or any one else to share to any great extent the burden with her. [5]
The burden of wealth is a heavy one to bear. [5]
As soon as we were released from our burden we returned for the second victim. [10]
At that time we shall probably have a hundred millions of people to share the burden, instead of thirty-one millions as now. [7]
That west wind was fresh, cool, fragrant, and it carried a sweet, strange burden of far-off things--tidings of life in other climes, of sunshine asleep on other walls--of other places where reigned peace. [13]
His first glance was enigmatical--almost suspicious--then, as he saw the radiance in her face and the burden she carried, a new light came into his eyes. [11]
All her life was but labour and pain; and she never threw down the burden for the sake of present pleasure. [14]
Down, down, down Venters strode, more and more feeling the weight of his burden as he descended, and still the valley lay below him. [13]
So many of us were steeped in selfishness and vice, were a burden on the world. [9]
France can teach us how to levy village and city taxes which distribute the burden with a nearer approach to perfect fairness than is the case in any other land; and she can teach us the wisest and surest system of collecting them that exists. [5]
Isabella's hand could undoubtedly free him from the oppressive burden of his debts, and she was certainly a magnificent woman! [10]
The soldier's knees trembled while he held the light burden of his daughter's weight in his strong hands, and he sighed when he laid her down on the mat. [10]
All who could travel on foot,--multitudes with slight wounds of the upper limbs, the head, or face,--were told to take up their beds,--alight burden or none at all,--and walk. [6]
Before the bacchanalian train which accompanied him, and behind the musicians who followed, moved two elephants bearing between them, as a light burden, some unrecognizable object covered with a purple cloth. [10]
Frequently their sparring took the form of a serious discussion, which served a double purpose; first their minds, accustomed to serious thought, found exercise in spite of the murderous pressure of the burden of forced labor, and secondly, they were supposed really to be enemies. [10]
By rough ways to the stars--Nay what they say to me is: Upward, under the burden of the cross, to bliss here and hereafter--And you too," he added, looking in his darling's face. [10]
He is trying to take up the burden of this life while struggling under the terror of another. [4]
They carried her to one old nook, where she had many and many a time sat musing, and laid their burden softly on the pavement. [12]
He scarcely seemed to notice her and her management under the burden of his cares, but she felt, that many things she said and could do for him pleased him. [10]
To be condemned to live as the average European family lives would make life a pretty heavy burden to the average American family. [5]
It's a burden to him, and Bory's life is only just beginning...." "Surely he will leave something to Boris," said the countess. [2]
Doubtless he longed to hasten at once to Daphne, but he felt that he could not take leave of her until he had first cast off, as his heart and mind dictated, the terrible burden which oppressed his soul. [10]
Is anybody beginning to feel it a burden, this sweet festival of charity and good-will, and to look forward to it with apprehension? [4]
He was sick to death--not with illness alone, but with disappointment and broken hopes and a burden beyond the powers of any one man. [11]
When I went to Berlin in winter, harder work, many friends, and especially my Polish fellow-student, Mieczyslaw helped me bear my burden patiently. [10]
The woman about to become a mother, or with her new-born infant upon her bosom, should be the object of trembling care and sympathy wherever she bears her tender burden, or stretches her aching limbs. [3]
I took him to a neighboring university and made him discharge the burden of his persecuting rhymes into the eager ears of the poor, unthinking students. [5]
It is a time when one's spirit is subdued and sad, one knows not why; when the past seems a storm-swept desolation, life a vanity and a burden, and the future but a way to death. [5]
It was some time before the old pirate had satisfied his yearning for affection and placed his light burden down beside the fire. [10]
Wherefore, then, should thy servant be yet a burden unto my lord the king? [6]
He moved as though some heavy burden of care bowed his strong shoulders. [10]
The burden of this somewhat comprehensive demonstration lying entirely upon the advocates of this doctrine, it may be left to their mature reflections. [3]
To throw off this burden as quickly as possible, on the third day after his arrival he went, angry and scowling and without answering questions as to where he was going, to Mitenka's lodge and demanded an account of everything. [2]
To understand what they said was, of course, impossible to any but an educated ear, and if I made out "Starr" and "Clipp'rr," it was because I knew beforehand what must be the burden of their advertising coranach. [6]
As a result, these revenues were already quadrupled, and yet the burden was so much more equably distributed than before, that all the kingdom felt a sense of relief, and the praises of my administration were hearty and general. [5]
The affection of these kind people never wearied in lightening the burden which had been laid upon me. [10]
If one of them threatened to sink altogether under his burden, he was refreshed by the whip of one of the horsemen, who accompanied the caravan. [10]
The galleries disgorged their burden, and presently the house was silent and deserted. [5]
To everybody's surprise, the unselfish monopolist immediately reduced the price of spectacles to such a degree that a great and crushing burden was removed from the nation. [5]
He therefore assumed the same attitude as had Mr. Flint, and forced the burden of explanation upon Austen, relying surely on the disinclination of his son to be specific. [9]
Now, Sir, in the present case, if any gentlemen, whose money is a burden to them, choose to lead off a dance, I am decidedly opposed to the people's money being used to pay the fiddler. [7]
Behind it is the long shed, and in front, rising out of the milkweed and the flowering thistle, the horse block of the first meeting-house, where many a pillion has left its burden in times bygone. [9]
Have you seen that veiled deep glow, that pathetic hurt dignity, that unsubdued and unsubduable spirit that burns and smolders in the eye of a caged eagle and makes you feel mean and shabby under the burden of its mute reproach? [5]
Historians may say that the classes of the South caused the war; they cannot say that they did not take upon themselves the greatest burden of the suffering. [9]
I do hope that Mrs. Howells's didn't go correspondingly down, under the added burden to her cares and responsibilities. [5]
I wish to thank you, first of all, for the consideration you have shown me, and to tell you how deeply I appreciate your taking the entire burden of the work of the parish. [9]
A desire to take upon himself the burden of citizenship led--as we know--to further self-denial. [9]
The broken figures supporting the burden of the chimney-piece, though mutilated, were still distinguishable for what they had been--far different from the dust without--and showed sadly by the empty hearth, like creatures who had outlived their kind, and mourned their own too slow decay. [12]
And yet a sudden wave of pity for her rushed over him, because the conviction seized him that she would also in her heart take upon herself the burden of his guilt as though it were her own. [11]
He himself was strong, but even the strongest person would have found it impossible to support the heavy burden of a grown man to the sea, for the gallery was low and of considerable length. [10]
That broke my strength, and when they brought me to the hospital I was on the verge of despair, and life seemed a greater burden than I could bear. [10]
Many simple folks squatted in circular groups on the ground, and joined in the burden of songs which were led by an appointed singer, to the sound of a tabor and flute. [10]
It is the spirit that stoopeth the shoulders, I ween, and not the weight; for armor is heavy, yet it is a proud burden, and a man standeth straight in it.... Nay, but me no buts, offer me no objections. [5]
It would be some relief to unseal his tongue for a little while; to divide his burden of distress with another sufferer. [5]
We will bear some of the burden and heat of the day ourselves. [5]
Worn out by sleeplessness and anxiety they threw their burden of sorrow on one another and reproached and disputed with each other. [2]
The field was sinking under the burden of the ears of misfortune. [10]
The man was singing a wild chant of cheerful labour, the soul of the hard-smitten of the earth rising above the rack and burden of the body: "O, the garden where to-day we sow and to-morrow we reap! [11]
Weeks dragged by, she watching, waiting, hoping, her mind going slowly to wreck under the burden of her misery. [5]
Bezukhov got off scotfree, while Fedya had to bear the whole burden on his shoulders. [2]
The burden that sat upon his spirit to-day was not mere loneliness; to the truth of this his soul attested, but Hilary Vane had never listened to the promptings of his soul. [9]
We desire the restoration of the earlier condition of things; the cancellation of all this incapable Government's pernicious trades with Hungary; and then--release from the sorry burden of the Badeni ministry! [5]
By degrees she regained composure, and she was rising, sensible of being relieved of a weighty burden, when a sudden start on Lassiter's part alarmed her. [13]
If he had recovered, he would know how to find her speedily; if the blindness was incurable, she would come herself to help him bear the burden of his darkened existence. [10]
But if you really care to learn what mental power Cleopatra once possessed, relieve me of this terrible burden of uncertainty, and grant me a position in life which will permit my paralyzed soul to move freely once more. [10]
The attitude of Prussia compels all the little states to keep up armies, which eat up their substance, and burden the people with taxes. [4]
Mrs. Hawkins was prostrated by this last blow, and it was well that Clay was at her side to stay her with comforting words and take upon himself the ordering of the household with its burden of labors and cares. [5]
The royal maiden pressed her hand to her heart, and, like one who is thirsty, drank in the pure air of the mountain valley with deeply drawn breath; she felt as if released from some overwhelming burden, as if delivered from some frightful danger. [10]
What is the prayer that can effectually release us--born of the flesh--from the burden of the flesh? [10]
There were two powerful parties at Court; therefore to make a decision either way would infallibly embroil them with one of those parties; so it seemed to them wisest to roost on the fence and shift the burden to other shoulders. [5]
True, in this position he would have had the burden of disposing of all the revenues from the temples throughout Egypt; but, on the other hand, he would always have his master's mortal remains near and be permitted to be their guardian. [10]
He releases the poor wretches' feet, and wants me to burden my soul with a shameful murder. [10]
But it's a pity that fashion has got hold of the country, and is turning our summers into a worry and a burden. [4]
I felt that Pernice was right--it was the warm heart, not the cool head, which should deal with these matters, and I left the church, which I had entered merely to shorten an hour, feeling as if released from a burden. [10]
It had become perfectly dark in her rooms, and the solitude and silence there oppressed her like a hundredweight burden. [10]
The rope running over the pulley cut her tender hands; her beautiful face was terribly distorted; but she did not pause until they had succeeded in lifting the burden of the dying man higher and higher till he reached the floor of the scaffolding. [10]
A feeling came over him of bitter self-contempt, hitherto strange to him; and he understood for the first time how Philip could regard life as a burden and call it a malicious Danaus-gift of the gods. [10]
It soon came out that mine was not the only shot fired; there were five others--a division of the guilt which was a grateful relief to me, since it in some degree lightened and diminished the burden I was carrying. [5]
She had pointed out a bad, momentous error, which, it is true, did not burden him alone, and as he certainly did not wish to defend it to her, and moreover might have found justification difficult, he made no reply, saying nothing but: "Men's affairs! [10]
You, and many others at the court, had still more to do, but, Luis, one thing, and it is the hardest burden, you were all spared. [10]
With this active opposition of those interested, and the astonishing indifference of the general public, it is easy to see why so little is done to relieve us of this intolerable burden. [4]
She felt not only relieved of a burden, but as if borne on wings. [10]
It was her only game, her only relief from her burden of sorrow and inaction. [5]
As they approached one could see that each bore a burden of a bulk and weight to sorely tax his strength; and we said among ourselves, truly these folk are well off for poor common soldiers. [5]
His head drooped on his breast, he never spoke but when he was spoken to, and when Doris or Euphorion tried to talk to him of the future, he would ask: "Am I a burden to you? [10]
But how cast off all the superfluous, devilish burden of my outer man? [2]
That the burden of this wrong may rest where it belongs, I quote the following statement from Mr. Jay's paper, already referred to. [6]
There were ninety-six of them, and by not a finger's weight did ninety-five of them add to the burden of that time for me. [5]
The full burden of the trust began to dawn upon me then. [9]
By the theory of the British constitution --that unwritten but very real document--in return for honours, emoluments, and titles, the burden of government has hitherto been thrown on a class. [9]
Even the burden of his debts weighed less heavily on his conscience than the irritating words with which he had induced his father-in-law to break off Wolff's betrothal to Els Ortlieb. [10]
At the top of every page in the sixty-three books stands the name of a village, and below that name its weary burden of taxation is figured out and displayed; in the case of all save one. [5]

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