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
And thus I shall not only be burdened in conscience for payment of this great sum, but also entangled and in great cumbrance to satisfy the avidity of this gentlewoman.
From Medieval English Nunneries c. 1275 to 1535 by Eileen Power
Think, Manhood, on substance, And put out gluttony for cumbrance, And keep you with good governance, For this longeth to a knight.
From A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 1 by William Carew Hazlitt
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
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 Rosalind Northcote
