incumbrance

Example Sentences

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A sardine tin, for example, has been opened, and it seems now to be only an incumbrance and of absolutely no value.

From Sidelights on Chinese Life by Macgowan, J. (John)

At any rate she doesn't consider me as a useless incumbrance of the earth because I can't play golf or shoot birds.

From A Top-Floor Idyl by Van Schaick, George

A red-headed boy, the natural incumbrance of the woman with the novel, snorted over his plate, and the old woman set her teeth on edge and looked hard at him.

From A Yankee from the West A Novel by Read, Opie Percival

I was even concocting some bold plan of getting rid of this incumbrance, when I felt Sebastian convulsively clutch my arm.

From Barbarossa and Other Tales by Heyse, Paul

Said he was an incumbrance on the concern and hadn't any business instinct.

From The Postmaster by Lincoln, Joseph C.