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

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

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 Stevens, Monica

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

From Far from the Madding Crowd by Hardy, Thomas

Yet, into whatever scenes he went, there in some guise did the throb of his pain evidently follow him, and he lay hitching his great shoulder as if to rid it of the cumbrance.

From The Virginian, a Horseman of the Plains by Wister, Owen