incumbrance

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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

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

In the meanwhile I will have the piano moved into your room, because it is a silly incumbrance in mine.

From A Top-Floor Idyl by Van Schaick, George

There is, I think, nothing which I so much dread, as the thought of being an unprofitable Missionary, an incumbrance to the society and to the church.

From The Baptist Magazine, Vol. 27, 1835 by Various

We have added eighty acres to our land, making one thousand six hundred and thirty-three acres free of incumbrance.

From History of American Socialisms by Noyes, John Humphrey