incumbrance

Example Sentences

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Do you not know, Carl, that you have no sort of business to be--in short, are quite an incumbrance where Jett� and Holm are?

From The Danes Sketched by Themselves. Vol. I (of 3) A Series of Popular Stories by the Best Danish Authors by Various

At any rate she doesn't consider me as a useless incumbrance of the earth because I can't play golf or shoot birds.

From A Top-Floor Idyl by Van Schaick, George

The construction of those I have the honor of presenting to you is designed to obviate the difficulty by leaving the whole passage of the river clear of the incumbrance of piers...

From The Life Of Thomas Paine, Vol. I. (of II) With A History of His Literary, Political and Religious Career in America France, and England; to which is added a Sketch of Paine by William Cobbett by Conway, Moncure Daniel

His land groaned under the weight of a long neglected incumbrance and, like many of his neighbors, he was ready for another change.

From Abraham Lincoln, Volume 1 (of 2) The True Story Of A Great Life by Herndon, William H.

It appeared that he had been buying land lately—I think it was a hundred acres—but there was probably an incumbrance to it, somebody else claiming to have bought some grass on it for this year.

From Canoeing in the wilderness by Thoreau, Henry David