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

Mr Blake, however, was allowed to return to his living, but 'not without the cumbrance of a Factious Lecturer,' and was not in full possession till after the Restoration.

From Devon, Its Moorlands, Streams and Coasts by Northcote, Rosalind

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

Think, Manhood, on substance, And put out gluttony for cumbrance, And keep you with good governance, For this longeth to a knight.

From A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 1 by Hazlitt, William Carew

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