incumbrance

Example Sentences

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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

He is impossible, I know, and often an incumbrance, but he's always appealing and noble, and I love him dearly.”

From Royal Highness by Mann, Thomas

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

That may be now a stifling incumbrance, which was once the only possible symbol of a living belief.

From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. VIII by Various

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