incumbrance

Example Sentences

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Meanwhile Gussie had flapped to the open door and was engaged in ridding her own slippers of the incumbrance.

From Marjorie Dean, College Senior by Lester, Pauline

The next incumbrance of which he relieved himself came from that same breast-pocket; but it was less easily placed elsewhere—so much less that the whistling was dropped altogether, and, instead of smiling, Mr. Miles frowned.

From At Large by Hornung, E. W. (Ernest William)

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

A sailor's life, however, is one of manifest risk, and in less than a twelvemonth Sarah M'Guffock was a young widow, without incumbrance, and with her rights to her just share of the captain's effects.

From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume I Historical, Traditionary, and Imaginative by Various

Three cars back from the tender the coupling-pin was drawn out, as the load of passenger-cars would only have been an incumbrance.

From Capturing a Locomotive A History of Secrect Service in the Late War. by Pittenger, William