Meanings of heavy yoke in English

Oft was a heavy yoke put on the burden of his childish shoulders.

They added, That this God imposed on men a heavy yoke.

But they said to Rehoboam, Your father laid a heavy yoke upon us.

The heavy yoke of responsibility had settled around his shoulders.

The matrimonial bond was a heavy yoke to her.

If we rebel against Him, we do not become free, but fall under a heavy yoke.

But the Empress Claudia had compassion on the people, groaning under the heavy yoke of the minister.

The man, who was fashioning a heavy yoke, lifted his bearded face to that of the woman.

Freedom from her father's heavy yoke, freedom to work, and read, and sing, and study, and grow,-oh

Saul was raised up to throw off this heavy yoke, and to destroy the cruel oppressors of his people.

The heavy yoke,-theyoke of dead routine,-dogsthe footsteps of every minister, and even more, of every minister's wife.

By the time this heavy yoke was shaken off, in the middle of the seventeenth century, the Portuguese dominion had fallen into decay.

Now make the hard service of your father and the heavy yoke that he laid upon us lighter, and we will serve you.

On the plains, stubborn labor was rewarded, but one needed pluck to leave all one knew and break custom's familiar but heavy yoke.

Staggering under the heavy yoke homewards, the boots sink deep into the slush and mire in the gateways, the weight carried sinking them well in.

Robert found no rest under Mr. Wright; no privileges, scantily clad, poor food, and a heavy yoke, was the policy of this "superior."