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

Besides, we shall meet my lord in camp, with no cumbrance of woman gear.”

From Grisly Grisell by Yonge, Charlotte Mary

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

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

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