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

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 Hazlitt, William Carew

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 Power, Eileen

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

So Moses saw Israel in their glory and prosperity, and he said, 'How can I myself bear your cumbrance!'

From Hebraic Literature; Translations from the Talmud, Midrashim and Kabbala by Various