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
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
Mr Blake, however, was allowed to return to his living, but 'not without the cumbrance of a Factious Lecturer,' and was not in full possession till after the Restoration.
From Devon, Its Moorlands, Streams and Coasts by Northcote, Rosalind
He was a man to whom memories were an in- cumbrance, and anticipations a superfluity.
From Far from the Madding Crowd by Hardy, Thomas
Extol not Riches then, the toyl of Fools The wise mans cumbrance if not snare, more apt To slacken Virtue, and abate her edge, Then prompt her to do aught may merit praise.
From The Poetical Works of John Milton by Milton, John
