encumbering

Example Sentences

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The employment of this method being chiefly to avoid incumbering the road, the interval between the departure of the several corps is sufficiently great when the artillery may readily file off.

From The Art of War by Mendell, George Henry

From what has been said, it will be inferred that I—a stranger in Canada—must have had some special reason for incumbering myself in my travels with an intrinsically worthless piece of common Columbia marble.

From The Gerrard Street Mystery and Other Weird Tales by Dent, John Charles

But there would be nothing gained by incumbering ourselves, especially in this place, with a generalization which may be looked upon as strained.

From A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive by Mill, John Stuart

To avoid incumbering the pages, authorities for the nomenclature have not been cited, except in a few instances, nor have numerous synonyms been introduced.

From American Pomology Apples by Warder, J. A.

I have often and often threatened that I will take the cellarership into my own hands on account of your default and improvidence, for all of you keep incumbering yourselves with heavy debts.

From The Chronicle of Jocelin of Brakelond: A Picture of Monastic Life in the Days of Abbot Samson by Brakelond, Jocelin de