Gratis ordbok - engelska svenska tyska lexikon

Exempel

• Nor less, I trust,
• To them I may have owed another gift,
• Of aspect more sublime; that blessed mood,
• In which the burthen of the mystery,
• In which the heavy and the weary weight
• Of all this unintelligible world,
• Is lightened:
• It was with a daughter of Mr Shepherd, who had returned, after an unprosperous marriage, to her father's house, with the additional burthen of two children.
• Bidding them grope their way out and bestir,
• (...) though the worst
• Burthen of heat was theirs and the dry thirst
• The other men were variously burthened; some carrying picks and shovels - for that had been the very first necessary they brought ashore from the Hispaniola - others laden with pork, bread, and brandy for the midday meal.