Samuel communicated his own burning spirit wherever he went, and the burden of his eloquence was zeal and loyalty for Jehovah.

The Shepherd, too, treated us with an original song, the burden of which was 'Robin's awa.'

The World-burden is the task set to be removed.

The burden of his political injunctions is submission to authority, exhortations to patience under the load of evils and tribulations which so many have to bear without hope of relief.

The burden of all this poetry was: "Gather ye roses while ye may, cast prudence to the winds, obey your instincts."

There was a song Joe used to hum at the forge, of which the burden was "Old Clem."

One heavy burden with which many men are weighted for the race of life is depression of spirits.

How many erred in judgment in their youth, through one critical blunder, that has been irretrievable, and whose burden is henceforth lasht to the back!

The burden of his utterances was a denunciation of idolatry, and a lamentation over its consequences.

The burden was the carcass of a bear; the man had drawn the forelegs over his shouldershis jutting elbows making what had seemed the outstretched armsand above the head of the burden-bearer rose the great head of the bear.

My arms aked with lugging it a mile to the stage, but the burden was a pleasure, such as old Anchises was to the shoulders of Aeneasor the Lady to the Lover in old romance, who having to carry her to the top of a high mountainthe price of obtaining herclamber'd with her to the top, and fell dead with fatigue.

We talked a little, and the burden of it was a fear that we could not endure the terrible thirst a while longer.

It was not a very eloquent farewell, but, as he said, "the message comes from all hearts present, and the burden of it is a safe journey, great achievement, and a speedy return.

His correspondent was a Dr. * * * * * (asterisks for which it is now impossible to substitute letters); and the burden of what seem to have been several communications in speech and writing on the subject was the maxim, "De mortuis nil nisi bonum."

The burden of his political injunctions is submission to authority, exhortations to patience under the load of evils and tribulations which so many have to bear without hope of relief.

At heart, all prayers are for preservation, the burden of all litanies is a begging for Life.

The burden of the tracts he read to Jacqueline was salvation by faith, not of works,an iconoclastic doctrine, that was to sweep away the great mass of Romish superstition, invalidating Papal power.

His correspondent was a Dr. * * * * * (asterisks for which it is now impossible to substitute letters); and the burden of what seem to have been several communications in speech and writing on the subject was the maxim, "De mortuis nil nisi bonum."

" The Colonel went on in front, breaking trail in the newfallen snow, the Boy pulling the sled behind him as lightly as if its double burden were a feather.

There are at present on the waters of the Ohio and Mississippi, 323 boats, the aggregate burden of which is 56,000 tons, the greater proportion measuring from 250 to 500 tons.

Carlyle is like a Hebrew prophet just in from the desert, and the burden of his message is, "Woe to them that are at ease in Zion!"

For its coming immense armaments had been prepared, until the burdens of taxation laid upon the people had become in themselves a source of danger.

In such manner the Greater Pilgrimage was fulfilled, and the burden of its accomplishing is the Muslim reverence for ceremony.

The burden of the soul of the Florentine monk is sin, especially sin in high places.

The increasing burden of our State inheritance tax laws, whereby every State wherein a corporation exists besides the State of the deceased seizes its percentage of the stock of such corporation in the hands of the executors, is another step in this direction.