cumbrance
Example Sentences
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Ladders fall toward the excessive end of Mr. Ten Eyck’s sliding scale of regulatory cumbrance; on the more helpful end are procedures required to track produce when there is a disease or illness outbreak.
From New York Times ● Dec. 27, 2017
Think, Manhood, on substance, And put out gluttony for cumbrance, And keep you with good governance, For this longeth to a knight.
From A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 1 by William Carew Hazlitt
Our heart is made large: ye are not brought into cumbrance by us, though that ye vex yourselves of a true meaning.
From The first New Testament printed in English by
He was a man to whom memories were an in- cumbrance, and anticipations a superfluity.
From Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy
Besides, we shall meet my lord in camp, with no cumbrance of woman gear.”
From Grisly Grisell by Charlotte Mary Yonge
