incumbrance

Example Sentences

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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.

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

He is impossible, I know, and often an incumbrance, but he's always appealing and noble, and I love him dearly.”

From Royal Highness by Mann, Thomas

A gun on the other hand may be only an incumbrance on a long journey.

From Canadian Wilds Tells About the Hudson's Bay Company, Northern Indians and Their Modes of Hunting, Trapping, Etc. by Hunter, Martin

I feel that I would be an incumbrance, rather than your co-worker.

From The Story of a Life by Ellis, J. Breckenridge (John Breckenridge)