incumbrance

Example Sentences

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I assented to the lieutenant’s proposition, and in a few minutes more, the poop was cleared of the incumbrance.

From Memoirs of Service Afloat, During the War Between the States by Semmes, Raphael

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

A gun on the other hand may be only an incumbrance on a long journey.

From Canadian Wilds Tells About the Hudson's Bay Company, Northern Indians and Their Modes of Hunting, Trapping, Etc. by Hunter, Martin

Do you not know, Carl, that you have no sort of business to be--in short, are quite an incumbrance where Jett� and Holm are?

From The Danes Sketched by Themselves. Vol. I (of 3) A Series of Popular Stories by the Best Danish Authors by Various

His land groaned under the weight of a long neglected incumbrance and, like many of his neighbors, he was ready for another change.

From Abraham Lincoln, Volume 1 (of 2) The True Story Of A Great Life by Herndon, William H.