cumber

Example Sentences

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Thus they lived: thus, too, they died; for at last they were cut down as cumberers of the ground.

From The Cambrian Sketch-Book Tales, Scenes, and Legends of Wild Wales by Davies, R. Rice

And he thinks we are parasites, cumberers of the earth, Heaven knows what.

From When a Man Marries by Rinehart, Mary Roberts

In the books of heaven they are registered as cumberers of the ground.

From The Great Controversy Between Christ and Satan by White, Ellen Gould Harmon

Meritorious men, but kept in the background while the place-men, cumberers of the service, refused by Jeff.

From Red-Tape and Pigeon-Hole Generals As Seen From the Ranks During a Campaign in the Army of the Potomac by Armstrong, William H.

Like barren fig-trees we shall be useless cumberers of the ground.

From The Life of Jesus Christ for the Young by Newton, Richard