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While she lives My heart will be a burthen to me.
These are the people that make life a burthen to the tourist.
He never felt life a sore and a weary burthen.
"Our lives are not worth living," was the burthen of the popular complaint.
He left the burthen of the conversation to me.
Time, instead of lightening the burthen, appeared to add to it.
She had a burthen of 320 tons and was armed with 14 guns.
So saying, he bounded down the descent with his burthen.
I drew near, but my limbs were unable to support their burthen.
It needs a blow like this to convict a man of mortality and its burthen.
Not long ago he was overgrown with fat, obscured to view, and a burthen to himself.
"One sorceress cannot prove that great a problem," suggested Burthen.
I hope soon to have a greater burthen to support, and must make money a great deal quicker than I used.
If they should make a mistake, someone else should bear the burthen of it.
Yet here again the burthen does not fall in equal proportions on the aristocracy with the rest of the community.
The first hired armed cutter Nile had a burthen of 136 tons.
"How can I remove the burthen of your scorn but by transforming myself into a new being?
One burthen and she would not lighten it?
Each long hour was counted, and "He suffers" was the burthen of all her thoughts.
But the burthen of the minor traffic, if not the whole of it, will certainly be mechanical.
Under love's heavy burthen do I sink.
Verily, my bread was bitter to me, and my days a burthen.
The wind and the surf bore a burthen.
Husband and wife alike dread an excessive burthen.
Verses and tales alike sustain the burthen of cosmic panic.