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

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

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

But, O good Lord,' saith he, 'when these are sick,— I fear me, Lord, this excellent workmanship Of Thine is counted for a cumbrance then.

From Poems by Jean Ingelow, In Two Volumes, Volume I. by Ingelow, Jean

Besides, we shall meet my lord in camp, with no cumbrance of woman gear.”

From Grisly Grisell by Yonge, Charlotte Mary