cumbrance
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Ladders fall toward the excessive end of Mr. Ten Eyck’s sliding scale of regulatory cumbrance; on the more helpful end are procedures required to track produce when there is a disease or illness outbreak.
From New York Times ● Dec. 27, 2017
Yet, into whatever scenes he went, there in some guise did the throb of his pain evidently follow him, and he lay hitching his great shoulder as if to rid it of the cumbrance.
From The Virginian, a Horseman of the Plains by Owen Wister
Besides, we shall meet my lord in camp, with no cumbrance of woman gear.”
From Grisly Grisell by Charlotte Mary Yonge
Our heart is made large: ye are not brought into cumbrance by us, though that ye vex yourselves of a true meaning.
From The first New Testament printed in English by
Mr Blake, however, was allowed to return to his living, but 'not without the cumbrance of a Factious Lecturer,' and was not in full possession till after the Restoration.
From Devon, Its Moorlands, Streams and Coasts by Rosalind Northcote
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