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Meanings of heavy burden in English

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Usage of heavy burden in English
1
John Key and his colleagues do have a heavy burden to carry.
Radio NZ
2
He plods on under his heavy burden of duty and water bottles.
Dexter by Design
3
It employs too many people, placing a heavy burden on the economy.
The South African
4
Totally exhausted, the two men dropped their heavy burden on the earth.
Bob Hampton of Placer
5
Whensoever I made the discovery, it laid a heavy burden on me.
George Silverman's Explanation
6
The recent war imposed an unusually heavy burden of taxation upon us.
Community Civics and Rural Life
7
The heavy burden hanging down so uncomfortably from one shoulder looked bad.
Look Back on Happiness
8
Unused to the heavy burden laid on me, I went rather slowly.
The World's Greatest Books — Volume 01 — Fiction
9
And by doing so he has imposed a heavy burden upon us.
The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, Volume 4
10
She was like one whose back is relieved of a heavy burden.
The Light in the Clearing: A Tale of the North Country in the Ti...
11
Never before had Life itself pressed upon him with its heavy burden.
Pelle the Conqueror — Volume 02
12
Those are the footprints of a man, laden with a heavy burden.
The Eight Strokes of the Clock
13
At length, fatigued with carrying our heavy burden, we stopped to rest.
In the Eastern Seas
14
For us Life is something merely tiresome, dull,- akindof heavy burden.
Essays on Russian Novelists
15
They were pressed into labour, were saddled with the labourer's heavy burden.
The Path of Life
16
Yet how could she climb and carry that heavy burden with her?
A Voice in the Wilderness
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United Kingdom
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Ireland
Common
United States of America
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