Burthen
[bә:ðәn]
Definition
(n. & v. t.) See Burden.
Checker: Roderick
Definition
n. and v.t. For Burden.
Checked by Dolores
Examples
- Each long hour was counted, and He suffers was the burthen of all her thoughts. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- I felt no burthen, except the internal one of contrary and contending emotions. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- The White Man was beginning to drop his Burthen in eastern Asia. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- They have been tamed--but at a price, the price of throwing the burthen of taxation upon the voiceless mass of the common people. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- These are the people that make life a burthen to the tourist. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Experiment, experiment, that is the burthen of Roger Bacon. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Before the nineteenth century there were no ships in the world much over 2,000 tons burthen; now there is nothing wonderful about a 50,000-ton liner. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- You said, I think, that a thousand pounds would suffice entirely to free you from your burthens, and enable you to recover a firm stand? George Eliot. Middlemarch.
Typist: Rowland