"Burthen" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... what you're drivin' at. But I can't do it—I can't wait so long. My life's a burthen and a sufferin' to me. Wherever I go, by day or by night, he's always there, standin' before me, and ...
— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 54, No. 338, December 1843 • Various
... found upon the mountain; permit me quietly to perform my pious duty, that I may receive absolution for my sins." The speech produced the desired effect; the peasants shouted, "The holy man! The saint!" and gave him every assistance in their power to enable him to carry off his burthen, and he made his ample collections with the utmost security and in ...
— Consolations in Travel - or, the Last Days of a Philosopher • Humphrey Davy
... of him, muttering, wheezing, whining, snivelling, as she did, repeating herself—with her burthen of "O dear, O dear, O dear!"—I don't know. Her lost girl, her fine up-standing girl, her Nance, her only one, figured in it as needing mercy. Her "Oh, sir, I ask you kindly!" and "Oh, sir, for this once ...!" made me sick: yet ...
— Lore of Proserpine • Maurice Hewlett
... young, Fabian," continued Mediana, "and the thought of the blood that has been shed will therefore be so much the longer a burthen ...
— Wood Rangers - The Trappers of Sonora • Mayne Reid
... of the eclipse of 1842, as to which some interesting particulars were collected by Arago.[161] Beasts of burthen, he tells us, paused in their labour, and could by no amount of punishment be induced to move until the sun reappeared. Birds and beasts abandoned their food; linnets were found dead in their cages; even ants suspended their toil. Diligence-horses, on the other ...
— A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century - Fourth Edition • Agnes M. (Agnes Mary) Clerke
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