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 Everett-Green, Evelyn

Extol not riches then, the toil of fools, The wise man's cumbrance, if not snare; more apt To slacken virtue, and abate her edge, Than prompt her to do aught may merit praise.

From Handy Dictionary of Poetical Quotations by Various

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 Northcote, Rosalind

He was a man to whom memories were an in- cumbrance, and anticipations a superfluity.

From Far from the Madding Crowd by Hardy, Thomas