without encumbrance

Example Sentences

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OK — but as a semi-monkish man of routine, what he wanted was domesticity without encumbrance.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 2, 2021

At 49, she wants to write without encumbrance.

From Time Magazine Archive

I am a widow without encumbrance, age thirty-seven, with long experience of keeping house, and able to undertake any reasonable work desired.

From Dry Fish and Wet Tales from a Norwegian Seaport by Nilsen, Anthon Bernhard Elias

He held his head up and faced the world without encumbrance, without a settled ambition, without any sense of responsibility at all. 

From In Kedar's Tents by Merriman, Henry Seton

So God of His grace helped us, and so we passed that perilous vale, without peril and without encumbrance, thanked be Almighty God.

From The World's Greatest Books — Volume 19 — Travel and Adventure by Hammerton, John Alexander, Sir