incumbrance

Example Sentences

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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

A vast country, rapidly increasing in wealth and population, would have been an incumbrance, rather than an addition, to the power of England.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, No. 362, December 1845 by Various

Though a book collector is not necessarily a book reader, he will have to be absolute master of his works of reference, or he will find every volume on his shelf a useless incumbrance.

From Book Collecting: A Guide for Amateurs by Slater, J. Herbert (John Herbert)

Yet all this wisdom of design, all this labour of execution, after serving a momentary purpose, to be thrown away as an incumbrance to real existence and happiness.

From Key to the Science of Theology by Pratt, Parley P.

The aquatic soldiers may be seen towing along shells of the most disproportionate size; but their relatives, who travel over the hills by moonlight, know that all unnecessary incumbrance of weight should be avoided.

From Rambles of a Naturalist by Godman, John D.