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    burthen


    1. and laid down the burthen of anguish


    2. 14 For they have been delivered from this world of tribulation; And laid down the burthen of anguish


    3. In which the burthen of the mystery,


    4. In which the burthen of the mystery, In which the heavy and the weary weight Of all this unintelligible world,


    5. dropt her burthen, and disposed of me to a poor relation in the country, to


    6. He was not in circumstances to do much for her; and yet, after all this blemish, she found means, after she had dropt her burthen, and disposed of me to a poor relation in the country, to repair it by marrying a pastry-cook here in London, in thriving business; on whom she soon, under favour of the complete ascendant he had given her over him, passed me for a child she had by her first husband


    7. 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


    8. Fred Vincy, we have seen, had a debt on his mind, and though no such immaterial burthen could depress that buoyant-hearted young gentleman for many hours together, there were circumstances connected with this debt which made the thought of it unusually importunate


    9. Mawmsey, a chief representative in Middlemarch of that great social power, the retail trader, and naturally one of the most doubtful voters in the borough—willing for his own part to supply an equal quality of teas and sugars to reformer and anti-reformer, as well as to agree impartially with both, and feeling like the burgesses of old that this necessity of electing members was a great burthen to a town; for even if there were no danger in holding out hopes to all parties beforehand, there would be the painful necessity at last of disappointing respectable people whose names were on his books


    10. Brooke's mind, if it had the burthen of remembering any train of thought, would let it drop, run away in search of it, and not easily come back again

    11. He had chosen this fragile creature, and had taken the burthen of her life upon his arms


    12. He must walk as he could, carrying that burthen pitifully


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    Synonyms for "burthen"

    burthen burden weight weight down

    "burthen" definitions

    a variant of `burden'


    weight down with a load