16 examples of burthensome in sentences

585 LXVI "My life, Heaven knows, hath long been burthensome;

All ye that, as I do, have felt this smart, Ye know how burthensome 'tis at my heart.

As the Tartars have many wives, they often have great numbers of children; neither is the multitude of their wives very burthensome, as they gain much by their labour, and they are exceedingly careful in the management of family concerns, in the preparation of food, and in all other household duties.

The ice and snow begin to be burthensome to the eye.

Mr. Pinckney considered the fisheries, and the western frontier, as more burthensome to the United States than the slaves.

It was urged by the deputies of the Eastern States, that a representation of two-fifths would be of little utility, and that their entire representation would be unequal and burthensome.

It was urged by the deputies of the Eastern States, that a representation of two-fifths would of little utility, and that their entire representation would be unequal and burthensome.

Mr. Pinckney considered the fisheries, and the western frontier, as more burthensome to the United States than the slaves.

It was urged by the deputies of the Eastern States, that a representation of two-fifths would be of little utility, and that their entire representation would be unequal and burthensome.

It was urged by the deputies of the Eastern States, that a representation of two-fifths would of little utility, and that their entire representation would be unequal and burthensome.

" I expressed my sense of these benevolent offers, but told him that I should be sorry to be in any way burthensome to him.

To reduce its consequence still more, the tithes were in this period taken from the incumbent, appropriated to the use of the Priory at Lewes, and have never since been restored; and a Convent of mendicant friars, more burthensome than ten endowed ones of monks, was founded and dedicated to St. Bartholomew.

Absenteeism, moreover, though not burthensome in the former of these ways, since the money is paid whether the receiver be an absentee or not, is yet disadvantageous in the second of the two modes which have been mentioned.

Desire not more of the World than is necessary to accommodate you in passing through it; look upon every thing beyond, not as useless only, but burthensome.

The first is in the construction of the hull, which in the one is as justly fitted, as the art of naval architecture will allow, to the double purposes of speed and buoyancy; while in the other, the desire of gain induces great sacrifices of these important objects, in order that the vessel may be burthensome.

"I can, madam, but I do not love one," said Anne, thinking of her most burthensome one.

16 examples of  burthensome  in sentences