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

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

Besides, we shall meet my lord in camp, with no cumbrance of woman gear.”

From Grisly Grisell by Yonge, Charlotte Mary

He was a man to whom memories were an in- cumbrance, and anticipations a superfluity.

From Far from the Madding Crowd by Hardy, Thomas

Mr Blake, however, was allowed to return to his living, but 'not without the cumbrance of a Factious Lecturer,' and was not in full possession till after the Restoration.

From Devon, Its Moorlands, Streams and Coasts by Northcote, Rosalind