*: "I was to say that Maw and Meggins disclaim all responsibility," continued the other. "They admit no liability at all, but in consideration of your sons services they wish to present you with a certain sum as compensation."
: He left his daughter in charge of watching her younger sisters.
: This internet browser puts you in charge of your personal settings.
*: Though we say we are quite clear about it and understand when someone uses the expression, unlike that other expression, maybe were in the same plight with regard to them both.
*: I ask what I have done to deserve it, one daughter hobnobbing with radicals and the other planning to plight herself to a criminal.
*: A plighted garment of divers colors.
: Responsibility is a heavy burden.
: Why didnt you clean the house? That was your responsibility!
*: There were four or five men in the vault already, and I could hear more coming down the passage, and guessed from their heavy footsteps that they were carrying burdens.
*: Deaf, giddy, helpless, left alone, / To all my friends a burden grown.
: A burden of gad steel is 120 pounds.
*: I mean not that other men be eased, and ye burdened.
*: My burdened heart would break.
*: It is absurd to burden this act on Cromwell.
*: [...] Foot it [[featly]] here and there; / And, sweet sprites, the burden bear.
*: As commonly used, the refrain, or burden, not only is limited to lyric verse, but depends for its impression upon the force of monotone - both in sound and thought.