incumbrance

Example Sentences

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Although the house was free of incumbrance, yet there was no money with which to pay taxes, or to pay the household expenses, even if they lived on a more moderate scale.

From The Dorrance Domain by Wells, Carolyn

Said he was an incumbrance on the concern and hadn't any business instinct.

From The Postmaster by Lincoln, Joseph C.

To divide a little this incumbrance among my friends, I caused a number of similar tubes to be blown at our glasshouse, with which they furnished themselves, so that we had at length several performers.

From Franklin's Autobiography (Eclectic English Classics) by Franklin, Benjamin

The increasing weight of the incumbrance but typified the growing heaviness of his heart.

From Woven with the Ship A Novel of 1865 by Brady, Cyrus Townsend

In the meanwhile I will have the piano moved into your room, because it is a silly incumbrance in mine.

From A Top-Floor Idyl by Van Schaick, George