No man has a right to say unto his Maker, 'My burthen is heavier than I can bear.'.    From Wordnik.com.  [John Halifax, Gentleman] Reference

It may be this burthen will be a man child and inherit the Kingship after me; what sayest thou of this, O Shimas?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night] Reference

Their burthen was a door lifted from its hinges, and supported by three slender stakes drawn green from a hedgerow.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Siren] Reference

Labour is there so well rewarded that a numerous family of children, instead of being a burthen is a source of opulence and prosperity to the parents.    From Wordnik.com.  [VIII. Book I. Of the Wages of Labour] Reference

"I myself have seen the time when gold was a burthen.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The American Family Robinson or, The Adventures of a Family lost in the Great Desert of the West] Reference

I was riding him myself, and he was proud of his burthen!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kate Coventry An Autobiography] Reference

I remarked that oxen were the only animals used for burthen.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Sailor of King George] Reference

But Atoacan was alone, and life soon became a burthen to him.    From Wordnik.com.  [Traditions of the North American Indians, Vol. 2 (of 3)] Reference

The rest were of small burthen, and mostly Genoese and French.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rambles in the Islands of Corsica and Sardinia with Notices of their History, Antiquities, and Present Condition.] Reference

Isaac bearing a burthen of wood for the sacrifice of himself on.    From Wordnik.com.  [Moon Lore] Reference

This burthen did not seem at all disproportionate to their strength.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Hundred Anecdotes of Animals] Reference

The Halsewell East Indiaman, of 758 tons burthen, commanded by Captain.    From Wordnik.com.  [Thrilling Narratives of Mutiny, Murder and Piracy A weird series of tales of shipwreck and disaster, from the earliest part of the century to the present time, with accounts of providential escapes and heart-rending fatalities.] Reference

When the canoe rose, it was free from its burthen, and bottom upwards; and.    From Wordnik.com.  [Woman on the American Frontier] Reference

But be it so: I did not burthen you: but being crafty, I caught you by guile.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 54: 2 Corinthians The Challoner Revision] Reference

The fraudulent possessor of the notes felt their burthen more than ever insupportable.    From Wordnik.com.  [Young Mr. Barter's Repentance From "Schwartz" by David Christie Murray] Reference

The burthen of his speech was a protest that he had not seen one odd volume that night.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Confessions of a Caricaturist, Vol 2 (of 2)] Reference

The place is a burthen to the East-India Company, as its revenues do not pay half its expenses.    From Wordnik.com.  [Trade and Travel in the Far East or Recollections of twenty-one years passed in Java, Singapore, Australia and China.] Reference

All the children took the smallpox from this second inoculation, and all had a very full burthen.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Harvard Classics Volume 38 Scientific Papers (Physiology, Medicine, Surgery, Geology)] Reference

To remove the heavy wagons was no easy task, as the oxen were only able to walk without a burthen.    From Wordnik.com.  [The American Family Robinson or, The Adventures of a Family lost in the Great Desert of the West] Reference

To endure the unendurable, this was his burthen; to be yoked through time with this dolt and fool.    From Wordnik.com.  [Despair's Last Journey] Reference

Sweeping round the mole, we found ourselves in a diminutive harbour, among vessels of small burthen.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rambles in the Islands of Corsica and Sardinia with Notices of their History, Antiquities, and Present Condition.] Reference

It will often spring on a grown person, male or female, while carrying a burthen, but always from behind.    From Wordnik.com.  [The International Monthly Magazine, Volume 5, No. 1, January, 1852] Reference

We will lift each other up from this place, and the burthen shall be set down at each other's dwelling-place.    From Wordnik.com.  [Traditions of the North American Indians, Vol. 2 (of 3)] Reference

His head seemed to droop beneath a heavier burthen than of yore; he walked as if his feet were shod with lead.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Sheaf of Corn] Reference

Its weight and size caused it to slip perpetually from under his arm, and rendered it a most troublesome burthen.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 62, No. 384, October 1847] Reference

Well knowing the impotence of my "hot air" blast, he simply smiled and took up his burthen of "finding" the bridge.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Fantasy of Mediterranean Travel] Reference

Ministers, blessing invoked on, 724. charged and encouraged, 720-722. conflict and burthen of, 720. meeting of, 719.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hymns for Christian Devotion Especially Adapted to the Universalist Denomination] Reference

These parcels he placed upon the top of his burthen, and, as soon as he entered the lodge, he gave to each her portion.    From Wordnik.com.  [Traditions of the North American Indians, Vol. 2 (of 3)] Reference

I took the variolous matter from a child under the disease in the natural way, who had a large burthen of distinct pustules.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Harvard Classics Volume 38 Scientific Papers (Physiology, Medicine, Surgery, Geology)] Reference

The expediency of relieving the Imperial government of the burthen of providing for the civil list of Canada was next discussed.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Rise of Canada, from Barbarism to Wealth and Civilisation Volume 1] Reference

From the jasmine or orange flower, it floats with its odorous burthen along the current, and lays all its perfume at the foot of.    From Wordnik.com.  [Journal of a Visit to Constantinople and Some of the Greek Islands in the Spring and Summer of 1833] Reference

Which thinge whilest they do saye/they do not thincke this with themselues/that all synnes haue their proper wieght and burthen.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Treatise of the Cohabitation Of the Faithful with the Unfaithful A Treatise of the Cohabitation Of the Faithful with the Unfaithful by Peter Martyr; Wherunto is Added A Sermon made of the Confessing of Christ and His Gospel and of the Denying of the same, by Henry Bullinger] Reference