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

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

From Far from the Madding Crowd by Hardy, Thomas

Our heart is made large: ye are not brought into cumbrance by us, though that ye vex yourselves of a true meaning.

From The first New Testament printed in English by

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 Ingelow, Jean

But, O good Lord,' saith he, 'when these are sick,— I fear me, Lord, this excellent workmanship Of Thine is counted for a cumbrance then.

From Poems by Jean Ingelow, In Two Volumes, Volume I. by Ingelow, Jean