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
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
But where, O where, Under this heap of precedent, this mound Of customs, modes, and maxims, cumbrance rare, Shall the Myself be found?
From Poems by Jean Ingelow, In Two Volumes, Volume I. by Jean Ingelow
He was a man to whom memories were an in- cumbrance, and anticipations a superfluity.
From Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy
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
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