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FAR-duhl
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a burden; a bundle with something in it; something cumbersome
1875Fated to Be FreeYour baby-days flowed in a much-troubled channel; | I see you as then in your impotent strife, | A tight little bundle of wailing and flannel, | Perplexed with that newly-found fardel call'd life.'1889Australia Twice TraversedTherefore, carrying a dozen of such eggs is no easy matter. I took upon myself the responsibility of bringing our prize safe into camp, and I accomplished the task by packing them in grass, tied up in a handkerchief, and slung round my neck; a fine fardel hanging on my chest, immediately under my chin.1921Four YearsI am very religious, and deprived by Huxley and Tyndall, whom I detested, of the simple-minded religion of my childhood, I had made a new religion, almost an infallible church, out of poetic tradition: a fardel of stories, and of personages, and of emotions, a bundle of images and of masks passed on from generation to generation by poets & painters with some help from philosophers and theologians.Labels: Ernest Giles, Jean Ingelow, William Butler Yeats
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