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burthen - use in sentences
Preposition: of
- ton: The number of vessels registered as belonging to the port, in 1844, was 206, of the aggregate burthen of 38,000 tons.
Converse of object
- become: Many of them will become a public burthen from the moment of their landing.
- have: Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, Joel, Amos, Obadiah, and the Psalmist have a kindred burthen for Edom.
Adjective modifier
- aggregate: About twelve vessels belong to the port, of the aggregate burthen of nearly 700 tons.
- heavy: But there, all novels are a heavy burthen while they are doing, and a sensible disappointment when they are done.
- public: Many of them will become a public burthen from the moment of their landing.
- same: The Admiral was of 600. tuns, and the Vise Admirall of the same burthen.
- large: The Torridge becomes navigable for boats at Wear Gifford, and for ships of large burthen at Bideford.
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