incumbrance
Example Sentences
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We have added eighty acres to our land, making one thousand six hundred and thirty-three acres free of incumbrance.
From History of American Socialisms by John Humphrey Noyes
Some, like the Fox, have even larger circumstances than they know what to do with, insomuch that they are rather a charge and incumbrance than of any true use and pleasure to them.
From ?sop's Fables, Embellished with One Hundred and Eleven Emblematical Devices. by ?sop
To divide a little this incumbrance among my friends, I caused a number of similar tubes to be blown at our glasshouse, with which they furnished themselves, so that we had at length several performers.
From Franklin's Autobiography (Eclectic English Classics) by Benjamin Franklin
His land groaned under the weight of a long neglected incumbrance and, like many of his neighbors, he was ready for another change.
From Abraham Lincoln, Volume 1 (of 2) The True Story Of A Great Life by William H. Herndon
Nothing short of a large sum of ready money, enough to clear off every mortgage and incumbrance at once, could enable this young fellow to save them.
From Sir Jasper Carew His Life and Experience by Charles James Lever
