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 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

Extol not Riches then, the toyl of Fools The wise mans cumbrance if not snare, more apt To slacken Virtue, and abate her edge, Then prompt her to do aught may merit praise.

From The Poetical Works of John Milton by Milton, John

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

From Grisly Grisell by Yonge, Charlotte Mary

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