51 Verbs to Use for the Word burthen

MARMADUKE I have borne my burthen to its destined end.

That slaves increase the profits of a State, which the Southern States mean to take to themselves; that they also increase the burthen of defence, which would of course fall so much the heavier on the Northern; that slaves occupy the places of freemen and eat their food.

Under this view the question as to the manner in which the Federal Government can or ought to embark in the construction of roads and canals, and the extent to which it may impose burthens on the people for these purposes, may be presented on its own merits, free of all disguise and of every embarrassment, except such as may arise from the Constitution itself.

He set it amidst his men, and carried the burthen from the press, fighting as they went.

It was not my constituents in Westminster who laid this burthen on me: they kept with remarkable fidelity to the understanding on which I had consented to serve.

There is a singular propensity in us all to throw the burthen of our own blunders on the shoulders of other folk.

''It was one of the curses from that Pandora's box, adjusted at the time, as usual, by a compromise, the whole advantage of which inured to the benefit of the South, and to aggravate the burthens of the North.

a gallon to Scotch and Irish spirits and to rum, thus leaving the proportional burthen nearly the same.

Nephewe, this may suffyce you; if't be light Ile lay more burthens on hym.

At Rome, also, the carrying away of such multitudes to colonies, rendered the commons tranquil, and lightened their burthens.

Thus fear of danger is ten thousand times more terrifying than danger itself, when apparent to the eyes; and we find the burthen of anxiety greater, by much, than the evil which we are anxious about: and, which was worse than all this, I had not that relief in this trouble from the resignation I used to practise, that I hoped to have.

He thought too it was expedient to reconcile the lower with the higher classes, and to diminish the burthen of taxation on the poor man.

He was conscious that he had lost his companion, but he seemed no longer to require his instruction; and casting down his own worthless burthen, he laded himself with the riches that courted his touch.

Hence it is slow to adopt helps, with which a beneficent Providence has furnished us, by giving to man an inventive faculty for easing his burthens, or by submitting the beasts of the field to his dominion and his use, and it flies to expedients which are contrary to nature and reason.

By degrees my mind shook off its burthen.

In houses where the grace is as indispensable as the napkin, who has not seen that never settled question arise, as to who shall say it; while the good man of the house and the visitor clergyman, or some other guest belike of next authority from years or gravity, shall be bandying about the office between them as a matter of compliment, each of them not unwilling to shift the awkward burthen of an equivocal duty from his own shoulders?

To wait, to wait, but not to wait too long, Till heavy grows the burthen of a song; O bird!

Or I shall growe a burthen to thy favors.

We would fain imagine the shrunken-cheeked factory-girl singing to herself a happy burthen, as she shifts the loom,the burthen of her life, and fain believe that the voice was innocent as the sky-lark's.

A GRAVE DIVINE Is one that knows the burthen of his calling, and hath studied to make his shoulders sufficient; for which he hath not been hasty to launch forth of his port, the university, but expected the ballast of learning, and the wind of opportunity.

He perceived that a number of gigantic antsthey seemed nearly a couple of inches in lengthcarrying oddly-shaped burthens for which he could imagine no usewere moving in rushes from one point of obscurity to another.

She came mounted upon a palfrey, white as snow, which carried her softly, as though she loved her burthen.

Port Saïd has undoubtedly improved, but still it is not a nice place, and we were unfeignedly glad to repair on board the Marie Valerie as soon as we noted the cessation of the black coaly cloud, through the murkiness of which a chattering stream of gnome-like figures passed their burthens of "Cardiff" into the bowels of the ship.

The rifles were converted into a bier, the body was placed upon it, and the four men then raised the burthen, and began to retrace their footsteps, in melancholy silence.

These views, however, of reducing our burthens are formed on the expectation that a sensible and at the same time a salutary reduction may take place in our habitual expenditures.

51 Verbs to Use for the Word  burthen