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 chance may come another time, and we want not the cumbrance of children on our march.
From In the Wars of the Roses A Story for the Young by Evelyn Everett-Green
He was a man to whom memories were an in- cumbrance, and anticipations a superfluity.
From Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy
But where, O where, Under this heap of precedent, this mound Of customs, modes, and maxims, cumbrance rare, Shall the Myself be found?
From Poems by Jean Ingelow, In Two Volumes, Volume I. by Jean Ingelow
And it seemed that the more proper every word was, the worse he liked it, for the cumbrance that he had to study out a better one to surpass it.
From Dialogue of Comfort Against Tribulation With Modifications To Obsolete Language By Monica Stevens by Monica Stevens
