incumbrance
Example Sentences
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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 Martin Hunter
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
The ancient Greeks were very partial to long hair, considering it by far the more becoming; but the Egyptians regarded it as an incumbrance, shaved their heads, and substituted wigs.
From Self-Instructor in the Art of Hair Work Dressing Hair, Making Curls, Switches, Braids, and Hair Jewelry of Every Description. by Mark Campbell
A vast country, rapidly increasing in wealth and population, would have been an incumbrance, rather than an addition, to the power of England.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, No. 362, December 1845 by Various
There is, I think, nothing which I so much dread, as the thought of being an unprofitable Missionary, an incumbrance to the society and to the church.
From The Baptist Magazine, Vol. 27, 1835 by Various
