“The boats moved on athwart the tide and steered their course direct to land, well fraught with goods.”
“We live in fraught times, Matthew, very fraught. But I cannot believe, nay, I will not believe, that any person could stoop to such a dastardly act.”
“Murray was staring at Caroline with a fraught expression. He had the air of a drowning man whose past life was being remorselessly played back to him.”