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

So Moses saw Israel in their glory and prosperity, and he said, 'How can I myself bear your cumbrance!'

From Hebraic Literature; Translations from the Talmud, Midrashim and Kabbala by Various

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

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

From Far from the Madding Crowd by Hardy, Thomas