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

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

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

The drummer first disengaged himself from the incumbrance of his martial music, then threw his hat fiercely upon the ground, and warily and circumspectly approached his foe.

From Caxton's Book: A Collection of Essays, Poems, Tales, and Sketches. by Rhodes, W. H. (William Henry)

Meanwhile Gussie had flapped to the open door and was engaged in ridding her own slippers of the incumbrance.

From Marjorie Dean, College Senior by Lester, Pauline