incumbrance

Example Sentences

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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

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

Nothing short of a large sum of ready money, enough to clear off every mortgage and incumbrance at once, could enable this young fellow to save them.

From Sir Jasper Carew His Life and Experience by Lever, Charles James

That may be now a stifling incumbrance, which was once the only possible symbol of a living belief.

From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. VIII by Various

To divide a little this incumbrance among my friends, I caused a number of similar tubes to be blown at our glasshouse, with which they furnished themselves, so that we had at length several performers.

From Franklin's Autobiography (Eclectic English Classics) by Franklin, Benjamin