incumbrance

Example Sentences

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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

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

Say that you wish the will to be canceled, and your grandson to come into his inheritance without incumbrance.

From Faithful Margaret A Novel by Ashmore, Annie

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

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