burden-bearing

We left our digging and burden-bearing; we turned from our scraping and twisting of things and words; we paused from our hurrying hither and thither and walking up and down, and asked in a half-whisper: this Death—is this Life?

DARKWATER W.E.B. DU BOIS 2004

The procession of moving teams stopped, and most of the burden-bearing warriors withdrew to the globe and stayed there.

Star Born Andre Norton 1958

The procession of moving teams stopped, and most of the burden-bearing warriors withdrew to the.: globe and stayed there.

Star Born Norton, Andre 1957

The procession of moving teams stopped, and most of the burden-bearing warriors withdrew to the.: globe and stayed there.

Star Born Norton, Andre 1957

They were burden-bearing animals, precious among Israel, for they were laden with the records of the tribes, much treasure in jewels and fine stuffs, incense, writing materials, and such things as the people would need, and were not to be had from among them, or like to be found in the places to which they might come.

The Yoke A Romance of the Days when the Lord Redeemed the Children of Israel from the Bondage of Egypt Elizabeth Miller

Slavery was still the law of the land; all the toil and burden-bearing falls to the poor slave's lot.

Bidwell's Travels, from Wall Street to London Prison Fifteen Years in Solitude Austin Bidwell

From his burden-bearing oxen, and his hordes of cavalry;

Mosaics of Grecian History Marcius Willson

It were not well for us to be able to avoid the burden-bearing and the tale of tired days, for God has hidden the secret of our rest in the heart of our toiling.

The Threshold Grace Percy C. Ainsworth

But besides the Pack-horses being a public institution, this was really the chief means of burden-bearing, whether in the conveyance of goods to market or of conveying friends on visits from place to place.

Fragments of Two Centuries Glimpses of Country Life when George III. was King Alfred Kingston

At sunrise the morning after his return from On, Kenkenes appeared at the Nile, attended by a burden-bearing slave.

The Yoke A Romance of the Days when the Lord Redeemed the Children of Israel from the Bondage of Egypt Elizabeth Miller