Which preposition to use with burdened
If he is to lead in intellectual and spiritual matters, he must be given fewer errands to run, the financial burden of his church must be taken absolutely from his shoulders, he must have a suitable salary, and his time must be at least as carefully guarded as that of the average man.
We are not in the least infallible; we come face to face with fierce temptations; we have heart-breaking sorrows; we are burdened with anxiety and perplexity.
Was it not Christian who fell into the bog because of the burden on his back?
At Sixth Avenue, where the great skeleton of the Elevated stalks mid-street, like a prehistoric pithecanthropus erectus, he paused for an instant in the shadow of a gigantic black pillar, readjusting the fragile burden to his pocket.
"You carry him the rest of the way," he commanded, and set his burden in Nicholas's arms.
Nobody who thinks will carry a single burden for even a single day.
Even Dr. Callandar was not careful to hide his burden from those faded eyes.
He received, however, an additional burden at once.
Another consequence of the diminished gravity here is, that both men and animals carry much greater burdens than on the earth.
Ready hands relieved the soldiers of their burden as the line filed in sight of the Governor, who had come to speed the parting braves.
'The New Testament tells us, indeed, and most truly, that "sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof;" and, therefore, wisely forbids us to increase our burden by forebodings of sorrows; but I think it no where says that even our ordinary afflictions are not consistent with a very considerable degree of positive comfort and satisfaction.
Lucterius, during the night-time, endeavored to introduce beasts of burden into the town by a narrow and wooded path.
Both of them have great skill in helping men to get burdens off their shoulders.
If they could be made an integral part of all our teaching in families, schools, and institutions, the burdens under which society is groaning to-day would fall more and more lightly on each succeeding generation.
Then, he in front and I behind, we carried the stretcher and its burden out of the wood.
O, 'twere thing impossible!" "Is this duchess so heavy, messire?" sighed the nun, "is she a burden beyond even thy strength, sir knight?
As Christian struggled under his burden towards the wicket gate, I saw in my dream that a man came to him, whose name was Help, and drew him out, and set him upon sound ground.
"They are," he said, "Bounty without extravagance; burdening without exciting discontent; desire without covetousness; dignity without haughtiness; show of majesty without fierceness.
She had no burden about the cap, and was quite content for God to send it or not as it pleased Him; and, in the afternoon, when a neighbor called, occupied with the Lord and his wonderful love, the thought of the cap had gone from her mind.
'Take up a burden against the South.
He could with tolerable certainty perceive, looking into the obscurity, that there were three men passing close under it, carrying some very heavy burden among them.
She used to draw the largest sled-burden behind her.
"That's about all there is to tell, except that from the day he left you to this, he has borne his burden like a man, and he has never once done anything unworthy of you.
I am relieved of a great burden through your kindness.
It seems to me entirely possible that the Incas, with their scorn of the difficulties of carrying heavy burdens over seemingly impossible trails, might have deliberately transplanted the desirable fresh-water fishes of the Rimac River to Lake Titicaca.