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
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
Think, Manhood, on substance, And put out gluttony for cumbrance, And keep you with good governance, For this longeth to a knight.
From A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 1 by William Carew Hazlitt
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
