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burthen sentence examples

  • Burthen of 38,000 tons.
  • Many of them will become a public burthen from the moment of their landing.
  • About twelve vessels belong to the port, of the aggregate burthen of nearly 700 tons.
  • Isaiah, jeremiah, ezekiel, joel, amos, obadiah, and the psalmist have a kindred burthen for edom.
  • But there, all novels are a heavy burthen while they are doing, and a sensible disappointment when they are done.
  • Many of them will become a public burthen from the moment of their landing.
  • The admiral was of 600. tuns, and the vise admirall of the same burthen.
  • The torridge becomes navigable for boats at wear gifford, and for ships of large burthen at bideford.

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