cumbrance
Example Sentences
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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
Extol not riches then, the toil of fools, The wise man's cumbrance, if not snare; more apt To slacken virtue, and abate her edge, Than prompt her to do aught may merit praise.
From Handy Dictionary of Poetical Quotations by Various
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
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
And thus I shall not only be burdened in conscience for payment of this great sum, but also entangled and in great cumbrance to satisfy the avidity of this gentlewoman.
From Medieval English Nunneries c. 1275 to 1535 by Eileen Power
