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
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
He was a man to whom memories were an in- cumbrance, and anticipations a superfluity.
From Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy
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
Our chance may come another time, and we want not the cumbrance of children on our march.
From In the Wars of the Roses A Story for the Young by Evelyn Everett-Green
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