incumbrance

Example Sentences

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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

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

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

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