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  • It's too encumbered with debt."†   (source)
  • He didn't want the added encumbrance of a tweed jacket, nor did he have any intention of taking Galileo's Diagramma anywhere near the water.†   (source)
  • That's just the way they are, treading softly, lean, light men with no encumbrances-not even water.†   (source)
  • She would awaken as healthy as she was now but without the encumbrance she bore within.†   (source)
  • A goddess would never allow herself to be so encumbered.†   (source)
  • He found someone both more beautiful and less …. encumbered, I guess.†   (source)
  • I'm sure I haven't actually lost an ounce, but I don't feel encumbered.†   (source)
  • Even the minor encumbrance of a bandage was a serious inconvenience.†   (source)
  • He begins to discard things, encumbrances that he has carried with him all his life.†   (source)
  • That is, were there any encumbrances or conditions?†   (source)
  • No shield encumbered Eragon's left arm; the hawthorn staff required two hands to wield properly.†   (source)
  • Other pictures, of horses, of cats deceased but unforgotten-like "poor Boobs," who had died not long ago and most mysteriously (she suspected poison)-encumbered her desk.†   (source)
  • Encumbered by the heavy chad or I lunged after my daughter.†   (source)
  • The turbid river was encumbered with masses of charred wood, with black hulks of vessels, and skeletons of fallen bridges….†   (source)
  • It made him unable to see other people except as encumbrances, little hazy shapes that interfered with his solitude, his hardness of being.†   (source)
  • It entailed the stomach-wrenching, terrifying process of climbing down the webbing of cargo nets pitched over the sides of the great transport ships—every step of the climb encumbered by heavy packs—and securing a seat in one of the smaller landing crafts that would carry the men into the shallow water and to the edge of the beach.†   (source)
  • They advanced slowly, for they had to pick their way through a pathless country, encumbered by fallen trees and tumbled rocks.†   (source)
  • The jacket would only encumber his movements.†   (source)
  • It was like departing your country, with your wives, your servants, your household furniture, and all your encumbrances.†   (source)
  • But I'm not encumbered by that sort of restriction.†   (source)
  • Since we have so great a cloud of witnesses surrounding us, let us also lay aside every encumbrance and the sin which so easily entangles us, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, fixing our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of faith, who for the joy set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God. — HEBREWS 12.†   (source)
  • He's intentionally lost that huge baggage, those encumbering remnants of blood and flesh, and because of this he carries no memory of a house, no memory of a land, he seems to have emerged from nowhere.†   (source)
  • Perhaps Alessan-dro's decision would have been different had he known that their weapons and pouches were designed and secured for fast pursuit on a horse, and that these men who were so heavily encumbered had been trained to ride and fight in fancy clothes.†   (source)
  • Since he owns property, he will probably resist every attempt to prejudice or encumber it.†   (source)
  • It was not an easy withdrawal, for one of the most difficult things I know of is to walk backward up a broken rocky slope for three quarters of a mile encumbered, as I was, by the complex hardware of a scientist's trade.†   (source)
  • And she was too tired and too encumbered to move much anyway.†   (source)
  • The water was shallow and very warm, but the salt felt good on my mosquito bites, and there is something undeniably salubrious for the soul about floating naked in the surf without another human being in sight or sound, free from the encumbrances or worries of the classroom.†   (source)
  • But the encumbrance can become a habit.†   (source)
  • They came back, having shucked all jewelry and other encumbrances and posed at my bedside, the Three Graces.†   (source)
  • These encumbrances prevented him from shaking hands with Nikolai Nikolaievich and even from saying How-do-you-do.†   (source)
  • Most of the shops here were closed or taken over by the few that remained open, the windows still encumbered with the useless stock.†   (source)
  • I have the usual encumbrances that men have-wife, children, home-that would have put chains about me but I resisted, and so I am alone.†   (source)
  • Players complain they are encumbered by the new protective padding.
  • My fears that he would prove to be an encumbrance and a nuisance were soon dispelled.†   (source)
  • Mahtob and I scrambled aboard, encumbered by our packages.†   (source)
  • The garland I was holding became an encumbrance, I felt I had been stupid to buy it.†   (source)
  • This was the first time she'd done so; it was due to an encumbrance which would surely prove temporary.†   (source)
  • The next day she returned to school walking with extreme dignity, not prideful, but encumbered by accoutrements hitherto unfamiliar to her.†   (source)
  • During the day, Rachel is a burden, an encumbrance, and he wishes to be rid of her; but at night she's an altogether different person, and so is he.†   (source)
  • Said my father had engineered it all, to get a whole farm for the taxes and something over, a fee, you might call it, for the disposal of the encumbering family.†   (source)
  • A mile to the east, you could see three silos that marked the northeastern corner, and if you raked your gaze from the silos to the house and barn, then back again, you would take in the immensity of the piece of land my father owned, six hundred forty acres, a whole section, paid for, no encumbrances, as flat and fertile, black, friable, and exposed as any piece of land on the face of the earth.†   (source)
  • A man for whom words were encumbrances, Smith didn't take note of the horse's name, but he memorized him nonetheless.†   (source)
  • They reached the strip of dry land between the lake and the cliffs: it was narrow, often hardly a dozen yards across, and encumbered with fallen rock and stones; but they found a way, hugging the cliff, and keeping as far from the dark water as they might.†   (source)
  • But Dick had made up his mind: stockings of any shade were unnecessary, an encumbrance, a useless expense ("I've already invested enough money in this operation"), and, after all, anyone they encountered would not live to bear witness.†   (source)
  • It is Branca coming through the dampish glow Branca who is tall and stalwart but seems to carry his own hill and dale, he has the aura of a man encumbered.†   (source)
  • It's the way civilized man now encumbers his territory, not with great walls or stretches of wire but with a single wellplaced device, a neat bundling with the workings of a mind.†   (source)
  • A timid encumbrance lacking steel in his backbone who would most likely have remained in paralysis, incapable of action, and let the Section go under.†   (source)
  • The idea of connecting the shoe to the person who was wearing it required such an immensity of effort, there was such encumbrance and complication that he could only bend his head to the weight of the room.†   (source)
  • I had grown to accept, and be excited by, the idea that I was an encumbrance that had become a habit.†   (source)
  • It was against this white wall that, after some talk about the paintings and the Hellenic Club, both of us standing, she showed me her profile, turning away when I drew close, not rejecting me or encouraging me, just seeming weary, accepting a new encumbrance.†   (source)
  • He is an encumbrance.†   (source)
  • He is an encumbrance.†   (source)
  • _ Just this,' he thought: 'encumber a rider, and hope at best to stay in my seat and not be pounded to death by galloping hoofs!'†   (source)
  • Bootes took flight, encumbered with his plough.†   (source)
  • They were shepherds, with no property but their live-stock, encumbered by their women and children, poorly armed and with scanty ammunition.†   (source)
  • It will be a curious sight, when it comes, to see these women as they are, but we must wait a little, for Mary Carmichael will still be encumbered with that self-consciousness in the presence of 'sin' which is the legacy of our sexual barbarity.†   (source)
  • The late Herr Haller, gifted writer, student of Mozart and Goethe, author of essays upon the metaphysics of art, upon genius and tragedy and humanity, the melancholy hermit in a cell encumbered with books, was given over bit by bit to self-criticism and at every point was found wanting.†   (source)
  • Apart from their helmets and encumbrances and the difficulty of breathing, they had to be dressed in their suits by kind and careful assistants.†   (source)
  • The tremendous weight of the shadowed earth had engulfed such frail fetters, such snail-shell encumbrances.†   (source)
  • Families, single men, working girls in pairs bringing their beach and summer things, some not so visibly encumbered but heavily loaded all the same.†   (source)
  • The few capacities and pursuits in which I had happened to be strong had occupied all my attention, and I had painted a picture of myself as a person who was in fact nothing more than a most refined and educated specialist in poetry, music and philosophy; and as such I had lived, leaving all the rest of me to be a chaos of potentialities, instincts and impulses which I found an encumbrance and gave the label of Steppenwolf.†   (source)
  • Ah, sure, he was still a going concern, very much so, but he had to take thought more than others did about himself, since if he went wrong he was a total loss, nowise justified, a dead account, a basket case, an encumbrance, zero.†   (source)
  • My eyes still full of star-dust, and my spurs Encumbered by the planets' filaments!†   (source)
  • The stream did not now rush and boil along and tumble over rock-encumbered ledges.†   (source)
  • She almost fell, encumbered as she was, in her hurry to descend the steps.†   (source)
  • It still encumbered the south wall with its unproductive branches.†   (source)
  • Bewitching Mrs. Copperfield's encumbrance?' cried the gentleman.†   (source)
  • Being encumbered with the infant, he ran back to meet Thomasin.†   (source)
  • About twelve o'clock a troop of ten or twelve thousand head of buffalo encumbered the track.†   (source)
  • In the neighborhood, the spaces beneath the portes cocheres were encumbered with wounded.†   (source)
  • This he assured me was the only encumbrance.†   (source)
  • The edges of the hollow road were encumbered with horses and riders, inextricably heaped up.†   (source)
  • At the moment of the blow, the stern had been thrown into the air, and the man (having his hands free, and for all he was encumbered with a frieze overcoat that came below his knees) had leaped up and caught hold of the brig's bowsprit.†   (source)
  • This iss very good, because thus the world never sees their results and science is not encumbered with them.†   (source)
  • At first only the beauty stirred Hare—he saw the copper belt close under the cliffs, the white beds of alkali and washes of silt farther out, the wind-ploughed canyons and dust-encumbered ridges ranging west and east, the scalloped slopes of the flat tableland rising low, the tips of volcanic peaks leading the eye beyond to veils and vapors hovering over blue clefts and dim line of level lanes, and so on, and on, out to the vast unknown.†   (source)
  • When one reads hurriedly and nervously, having in mind written tests and examinations, one's brain becomes encumbered with a lot of choice bric-a-brac for which there seems to be little use.†   (source)
  • …at Combray, seemed to me unimportant, became now in my eyes something marvellous, as if no one else had ever known the House of Orleans; they set him in vivid detachment against the vulgar background of pedestrians of different classes, who encumbered that particular path in the Champs-Elysees, in the midst of whom I admired his condescending to figure without claiming any special deference, which as it happened none of them dreamed of paying him, so profound was the incognito in which…†   (source)
  • The estate was considerably encumbered with debts; creditors turned up on all sides, and the prince, in spite of all advice and entreaty, insisted upon managing all matters of claim himself—which, of course, meant satisfying everybody all round, although half the claims were absolutely fraudulent.†   (source)
  • There was dimly to be seen, above a mantelpiece encumbered with spurs, hooves and bronze models of horses, a dark-brown picture of a white horse.†   (source)
  • Having been deeply encumbered by marrying, getting a cottage, and buying the furniture which had disappeared in the wake of his wife, he had never been able to save any money since the time of those disastrous ventures, and till his wages began to come in he was obliged to live in the narrowest way.†   (source)
  • He was renting the flat furnished; of all the objects that encumbered it none were his own except the photograph frame, the Cupids, and the books.†   (source)
  • No. It rasped her, though, to have stirring about in her this brutal monster! to hear twigs cracking and feel hooves planted down in the depths of that leaf-encumbered forest, the soul; never to be content quite, or quite secure, for at any moment the brute would be stirring, this hatred, which, especially since her illness, had power to make her feel scraped, hurt in her spine; gave her physical pain, and made all pleasure in beauty, in friendship, in being well, in being loved and…†   (source)
  • CHAPTER THIRTEEN HOW I FELL IN WITH THE CURATE After getting this sudden lesson in the power of terrestrial weapons, the Martians retreated to their original position upon Horsell Common; and in their haste, and encumbered with the debris of their smashed companion, they no doubt overlooked many such a stray and negligible victim as myself.†   (source)
  • The quadroon nurse was looked upon as a huge encumbrance, only good to button up waists and panties and to brush and part hair; since it seemed to be a law of society that hair must be parted and brushed.†   (source)
  • In the red glow from the fire-box, a group of people stood huddled together on the platform, encumbered by bundles and boxes.†   (source)
  • She doubted Mrs. Van Osburgh's reluctance, but was aware of Miss Farish's habit of ascribing her own delicacies of feeling to the persons least likely to be encumbered by them.†   (source)
  • On the return, carrying the girl and a pack, it would be added encumbrance; and after debating the matter he left the rifle leaning against the bench.†   (source)
  • He was arriving like a ghost, and the sound of his own footsteps was almost an encumbrance to be got rid of.†   (source)
  • A year ago I should have been of use to you, and now I should be an encumbrance; and I like you for telling me so quite honestly.†   (source)
  • He is now of an intelligent age, of course, and my mother and father have lately written to say that, as they have rather a hard struggle over there, and I am settled comfortably here, they don't see why they should be encumbered with the child any longer, his parents being alive.†   (source)
  • They went together, picking their way across muddy streets and sidewalks encumbered with the cheap display of small tradesmen.†   (source)
  • She signalled to that official, and in a moment, with the ease that seemed to attend the fulfilment of all her wishes, a little table had been set up between the seats, and she had helped Mr. Gryce to bestow his encumbering properties beneath it.†   (source)
  • A third wore trappings and arms of an officer of the staff; while the rest, from the plainness of the housings, and the traveling mails with which they were encumbered, were evidently fitted for the reception of as many menials, who were, seemingly, already waiting the pleasure of those they served.†   (source)
  • Thus encumbered the old gentleman lifted his legs awkwardly once or twice, as if they were very clumsy and imperfect pieces of machinery, and then looking down on his own side of the wall, burst into a loud laugh.†   (source)
  • A child encumbers a fugitive; perhaps, on perceiving it was still alive, he had thrown it into the river.†   (source)
  • You will have no objection, I dare say, to your great expectations being encumbered with that easy condition.†   (source)
  • Fedka waited at table, obviously encumbered by having boots on for the first time; he was assisted by a woman of a masculine cast of face and one eye, by name Anfisushka, who performed the duties of housekeeper, poultry-woman, and laundress.†   (source)
  • The carriage stopped, as I had expected, at the hotel door; my flame (that is the very word for an opera inamorata) alighted: though muffed in a cloak — an unnecessary encumbrance, by-the-bye, on so warm a June evening — I knew her instantly by her little foot, seen peeping from the skirt of her dress, as she skipped from the carriage-step.†   (source)
  • The palace place, encumbered with people, offered to the curious gazers at the windows the aspect of a sea; into which five or six streets, like so many mouths of rivers, discharged every moment fresh floods of heads.†   (source)
  • I hope I am aware that they may be too noisy for your father—or even may be some encumbrance to you, if your visiting engagements continue to increase as much as they have done lately.†   (source)
  • "Take off that stock!" and, as Tom, encumbered by his fetters, proceeded to do it, he assisted him, by pulling it, with no gentle hand, from his neck, and putting it in his pocket.†   (source)
  • She had never seen such a wide lane before, and, without her knowing why, it gave her the impression that the common could not be far off; perhaps it was because she saw a donkey with a log to his foot feeding on the grassy margin, for she had seen a donkey with that pitiable encumbrance on Dunlow Common when she had been across it in her father's gig.†   (source)
  • The passage was encumbered with rope ladders, knotted cords, torches, flasks, grappling irons, alpenstocks, pickaxes, iron shod sticks, enough to load ten men.†   (source)
  • But he was unluckily endowed with a good name and a large though encumbered estate, both of which went rather to injure than to advance him.†   (source)
  • It was sorrowful to think how many days, and weeks, and months, and years of toil had been wasted on these musty papers, which were now only an encumbrance on earth, and were hidden away in this forgotten corner, never more to be glanced at by human eyes.†   (source)
  • Newman had been sitting without lights by Valentin's faded fire, upon which he had thrown a log; the blaze played over the richly-encumbered little sitting-room and produced fantastic gleams and shadows.†   (source)
  • The truth was, that the human race had now reached a stage of progress so far beyond what the wisest and wittiest men of former ages had ever dreamed of, that it would have been a manifest absurdity to allow the earth to be any longer encumbered with their poor achievements in the literary line.†   (source)
  • Let life go on in it unhindered and let it defend itself, it will do more than if you paralyze it by encumbering it with remedies.†   (source)
  • Brian de Bois-Guilbert rolled on the field, encumbered with the stirrup, from which he was unable to draw his foot.†   (source)
  • It is the most flagrant example of an abominable public vehicle that ever encumbered the face of the earth.†   (source)
  • The world which is rising into existence is still half encumbered by the remains of the world which is waning into decay; and amidst the vast perplexity of human affairs, none can say how much of ancient institutions and former manners will remain, or how much will completely disappear.†   (source)
  • So much more wicked and distracted had the Revolution grown in that December month, that the rivers of the South were encumbered with the bodies of the violently drowned by night, and prisoners were shot in lines and squares under the southern wintry sun.†   (source)
  • She fell to work accordingly on a carving in low relief of flowers and figures, but talked on amidst her mallet strokes: "You see, we all think this the prettiest place for a house up and down these reaches; and the site has been so long encumbered with an unworthy one, that we masons were determined to pay off fate and destiny for once, and build the prettiest house we could compass here—and so—and so—"†   (source)
  • It really seemed to me, however, that the bridge vibrated and heaved up and down in a very formidable manner; and, in spite of Mr. Smooth-it-away's testimony to the solidity of its foundation, I should be loath to cross it in a crowded omnibus, especially if each passenger were encumbered with as heavy luggage as that gentleman and myself.†   (source)
  • Mr. Gamfield smiled, too, as he perused the document; for five pounds was just the sum he had been wishing for; and, as to the boy with which it was encumbered, Mr. Gamfield, knowing what the dietary of the workhouse was, well knew he would be a nice small pattern, just the very thing for register stoves.†   (source)
  • Fritz, Ernest and I began the work of unloading our craft, while Jack, seeing that the poor donkey was still encumbered with his swimming-belt, tried to free him from it.†   (source)
  • It was far more probable that the Indians had left their prisoners in the camp, than that they had encumbered themselves by causing them to follow through the woods a party that was out on a merely temporary excursion.†   (source)
  • She is no encumbrance here.†   (source)
  • Here was knowledge in which no one could partake; and she was sensible that nothing less than a perfect understanding between the parties could justify her in throwing off this last encumbrance of mystery.†   (source)
  • Elizabeth, encumbered with no recollections as her mother was, regarded him with nothing more than the keen curiosity and interest which the discovery of such unexpected social standing in the long-sought relative naturally begot.†   (source)
  • The portionless, who struggle with no such unnecessary inherited encumbrances, find it labor enough to subdue and cultivate a few cubic feet of flesh.†   (source)
  • Had she been left to herself in her late extremity, she would probably have used her faculties to the utmost, and with discretion, in protecting her person; but, encumbered with her inanimate friend, retreat was a thing not to be attempted.†   (source)
  • As it grew later the fire was made up in the large long hall into which the staircase descended, and all encumbrances were cleared out for dancing.†   (source)
  • Her dress was of a lavender colour, and perfectly neat; but scantily made, as if she desired to be as little encumbered as possible.†   (source)
  • Whilst something higher than prudence is active, he is admirable; when common sense is wanted, he is an encumbrance.†   (source)
  • I was going out at the opposite door,—not easy to open now, for the damp wood had started and swelled, and the hinges were yielding, and the threshold was encumbered with a growth of fungus,—when I turned my head to look back.†   (source)
  • Well, my dear father, in the shipwreck of life—for life is an eternal shipwreck of our hopes—I cast into the sea my useless encumbrance, that is all, and I remain with my own will, disposed to live perfectly alone, and consequently perfectly free.†   (source)
  • By adopting this expedient, one to which all who are eager to arrive at results without encumbering themselves with details are so apt to resort, Judith made a rapid progress in these melancholy revelations of her mother's failing and punishment.†   (source)
  • They were a confusion of rhythmical noises, to which the streets added yet more confusion by encumbering them with echoes.†   (source)
  • Legree stepped out into a large entry, which went up stairs, by what had formerly been a superb winding staircase; but the passage-way was dirty and dreary, encumbered with boxes and unsightly litter.†   (source)
  • Beyond this field, at present imperfectly traced out, we suddenly came upon the cabin of its owner, situated in the centre of a plot of ground more carefully cultivated than the rest, but where man was still waging unequal warfare with the forest; there the trees were cut down, but their roots were not removed, and the trunks still encumbered the ground which they so recently shaded.†   (source)
  • But words cannot describe the feelings of his admirable mother, when she learned, very shortly after her noble husband's demise, that her son was a member of several worldly clubs, had lost largely at play at Wattier's and the Cocoa Tree; that he had raised money on post-obits, and encumbered the family estate; that he drove four-in-hand, and patronised the ring; and that he actually had an opera-box, where he entertained the most dangerous bachelor company.†   (source)
  • Very pretty, sir, upon my word; to send me on here, to be an encumbrance to my friends, so long before you vouchsafe to come!†   (source)
  • But the impetuous young men were rewarded by finding that, encumbered with Cora, the Hurons were losing ground in the race.†   (source)
  • If Kutuzov decided to retreat along the road from Krems to Olmutz, to unite with the troops arriving from Russia, he risked being forestalled on that road by the French who had crossed the Vienna bridge, and encumbered by his baggage and transport, having to accept battle on the march against an enemy three times as strong, who would hem him in from two sides.†   (source)
  • Their very names are an encumbrance to a Norman knight's mouth, and have, as it were, a flavour of bacon—Give me a stoup of wine, as jolly Prince John said, that I may wash away the relish—place it in the armoury, and thither lead the prisoners."†   (source)
  • Their branches were encumbered with snow, and it silently dropped off in wet heaps while I stood at the window.†   (source)
  • That time, however, did gradually come, forwarded by an affection on his side as warm as her own, and much less encumbered by refinement or self-distrust.†   (source)
  • An immense crowd, which overflowed into all the neighboring streets, encumbered the Place, properly speaking.†   (source)
  • …that the robbery was not the result of a concerted plan: otherwise she would have watched an opportunity of carrying off a sum of money; the difficulty she would be placed in when she began to think on what she had done, and found herself encumbered with documents of whose nature she was utterly ignorant; and the comparative ease with which somebody, with a full knowledge of her position, obtaining access to her, and working on her fears, if necessary, might worm himself into her…†   (source)
  • A runaway wife is an encumbrance to everybody, a burden to herself and a byword—all of which make up a heap of misery greater than any that comes by staying at home—though this may include the trifling items of insult, beating, and starvation.†   (source)
  • Most ridiculous of all was the condition of one old fellow, who had found a calabash, containing palm wine, and, eagerly drinking it, was immediately fitted with a mask, for the shell stuck to his forehead and whiskers, of course covering his eyes; and he blundered about, cutting the wildest capers in his efforts to get rid of the encumbrance.†   (source)
  • Her companion was not encumbered with much luggage, as there merely dangled from a stick which he carried over his shoulder, a small parcel wrapped in a common handkerchief, and apparently light enough.†   (source)
  • Three feet of knotty-floored dark passage bring the client to Mr. Vholes's jet-black door, in an angle profoundly dark on the brightest midsummer morning and encumbered by a black bulk-head of cellarage staircase against which belated civilians generally strike their brows.†   (source)
  • It is true, the encumbrances sometimes outweigh the value of the farm, so that the farm itself becomes one great encumbrance, and still a man is found to inherit it, being well acquainted with it, as he says.†   (source)
  • They forced the line of assailants, and fled in every direction, leaving the Parvis encumbered with dead.†   (source)
  • Meanwhile Henchard was sitting up, thinking over his jealous folly in forbidding Farfrae to pay his addresses to this girl who did not belong to him, when if he had allowed them to go on he might not have been encumbered with her.†   (source)
  • Through a field slippery with blood, and encumbered with broken armour and the bodies of slain and wounded horses, the marshals of the lists again conducted the victor to the foot of Prince John's throne.†   (source)
  • And now, there he sat, with the remains of a beard at least a week old encumbering his chin; a soiled and crumpled shirt-frill crouching, as it were, upon his breast, instead of standing boldly out; a demeanour so abashed and drooping, so despondent, and expressive of such humiliation, grief, and shame; that if the souls of forty unsubstantial housekeepers, all of whom had had their water cut off for non-payment of the rate, could have been concentrated in one body, that one body could…†   (source)
  • People of the name of Tupman, very lately settled there, and encumbered with many low connexions, but giving themselves immense airs, and expecting to be on a footing with the old established families.†   (source)
  • These frank admissions softened Mr. Giles, who at once owned that he was afraid; upon which, they all three faced about, and ran back again with the completest unanimity, until Mr. Giles (who had the shortest wind of the party, as was encumbered with a pitchfork) most handsomely insisted on stopping, to make an apology for his hastiness of speech.†   (source)
  • It merely remains for me to substantiate these accusations; and then, with my ill-starred family, to disappear from the landscape on which we appear to be an encumbrance.†   (source)
  • "Her uncle, she understood, meant to fetch her; and as her cousin's illness had continued so many weeks without her being thought at all necessary, she must suppose her return would be unwelcome at present, and that she should be felt an encumbrance."†   (source)
  • Encumbered by his rifle, and, perhaps, not sustained by so deep an interest in the captive as his companions, the scout suffered the latter to precede him a little, Uncas, in his turn, taking the lead of Heyward.†   (source)
  • Mr. Weston had accompanied her to Mrs. Bates's, and gone through his share of this essential attention most handsomely; but she having then induced Miss Fairfax to join her in an airing, was now returned with much more to say, and much more to say with satisfaction, than a quarter of an hour spent in Mrs. Bates's parlour, with all the encumbrance of awkward feelings, could have afforded.†   (source)
  • It is true, the encumbrances sometimes outweigh the value of the farm, so that the farm itself becomes one great encumbrance, and still a man is found to inherit it, being well acquainted with it, as he says.†   (source)
  • And who substituted for the ancient gothic altar, splendidly encumbered with shrines and reliquaries, that heavy marble sarcophagus, with angels' heads and clouds, which seems a specimen pillaged from the Val-de-Grâce or the Invalides?†   (source)
  • Very often, as his hay-knife crunched down among the sweet-smelling grassy stems, he would survey mankind and say to himself: "Here and everywhere be folk dying before their time like frosted leaves, though wanted by their families, the country, and the world; while I, an outcast, an encumberer of the ground, wanted by nobody, and despised by all, live on against my will!"†   (source)
  • The building was a sort of ruin, where dismantled chambers were distinguishable, one of which, much encumbered, seemed to serve as a shed.†   (source)
  • This quarter of an acre, so poorly planted, so encumbered with mean buildings and sheds, was dear to him, and satisfied his wants.†   (source)
  • The pantaloons which I now wear were woven in a farmer's family—thank Heaven there is so much virtue still in man; for I think the fall from the farmer to the operative as great and memorable as that from the man to the farmer;—and in a new country, fuel is an encumbrance.†   (source)
  • Finally, a third audience, the most noisy, the most jovial, and the most numerous, encumbered benches and tables, in the midst of which harangued and swore a flute-like voice, which escaped from beneath a heavy armor, complete from casque to spurs.†   (source)
  • An average house in this neighborhood costs perhaps eight hundred dollars, and to lay up this sum will take from ten to fifteen years of the laborer's life, even if he is not encumbered with a family—estimating the pecuniary value of every man's labor at one dollar a day, for if some receive more, others receive less;—so that he must have spent more than half his life commonly before his wigwam will be earned.†   (source)
  • …the circular buildings of the wheat mart; the fragments of Philip Augustus's ancient wall, which could be made out here and there, drowned among the houses, its towers gnawed by ivy, its gates in ruins, with crumbling and deformed stretches of wall; the quay with its thousand shops, and its bloody knacker's yards; the Seine encumbered with boats, from the Port au Foin to Port-l'Evêque, and you will have a confused picture of what the central trapezium of the Town was like in 1482.†   (source)
  • The grave-digger's dwelling was, like all such wretched habitations, an unfurnished and encumbered garret.†   (source)
  • As for cleaning out,— that function was entrusted to the pouring rains which encumbered rather than swept away.†   (source)
  • It is a consoling idea (let us remark in passing), to think that the death penalty, which three hundred years ago still encumbered with its iron wheels, its stone gibbets, and all its paraphernalia of torture, permanent and riveted to the pavement, the Grève, the Halles, the Place Dauphine, the Cross du Trahoir, the Marché aux Pourceaux, that hideous Montfaucon, the barrier des Sergents, the Place aux Chats, the Porte Saint-Denis, Champeaux, the Porte Baudets, the Porte Saint Jacques,…†   (source)
  • When I consider my neighbors, the farmers of Concord, who are at least as well off as the other classes, I find that for the most part they have been toiling twenty, thirty, or forty years, that they may become the real owners of their farms, which commonly they have inherited with encumbrances, or else bought with hired money—and we may regard one third of that toil as the cost of their houses—but commonly they have not paid for them yet.†   (source)
  • A dizzy multitude fills the roads, the paths, the bridges, the plains, the hills, the valleys, the woods, encumbered by this invasion of forty thousand men.†   (source)
  • The hall on the first floor, where "the restaurant" was situated, was a large and long apartment encumbered with stools, chairs, benches, and tables, and with a crippled, lame, old billiard-table.†   (source)
  • By nine o'clock, more than eight hundred persons had been arrested, the Prefecture of Police was encumbered with them, so was the Conciergerie, so was La Force.†   (source)
  • He introduced him into the drawing-room, still encumbered and topsy-turvy, and which bore the air of a field of battle after the joys of the preceding evening.†   (source)
  • From Vert-Coucou to Groentendael, for a distance of nearly two leagues in the direction of Brussels, according to the testimony of eye-witnesses who are still alive, the roads were encumbered with fugitives.†   (source)
  • I have been one of the masters of the state; the vaults of the treasury were encumbered with specie to such a degree that we were forced to shore up the walls, which were on the point of bursting beneath the weight of gold and silver; I dined in Dead Tree Street, at twenty-two sous.†   (source)
  • He was no longer Marius, the enthusiastic dreamer, the firm, resolute, ardent man, the bold defier of fate, the brain which erected future on future, the young spirit encumbered with plans, with projects, with pride, with ideas and wishes; he was a lost dog.†   (source)
  • He thought the dining-room charming, though it was hideous, furnished with an old round table, a long sideboard surmounted by a slanting mirror, a dilapidated arm-chair, and several plain chairs which were encumbered with Toussaint's packages.†   (source)
  • Nevertheless, the vehicle, or, to speak more accurately, the fragment of a vehicle, which encumbered the street in front of the cook-shop of the Sergeant of Waterloo, one evening in the spring of 1818, would certainly have attracted, by its mass, the attention of any painter who had passed that way.†   (source)
  • …of this Marche-aux-Chevaux; if he consented even to pass beyond the Rue du Petit-Banquier, after leaving on his right a garden protected by high walls; then a field in which tan-bark mills rose like gigantic beaver huts; then an enclosure encumbered with timber, with a heap of stumps, sawdust, and shavings, on which stood a large dog, barking; then a long, low, utterly dilapidated wall, with a little black door in mourning, laden with mosses, which were covered with flowers in the…†   (source)
  • Her fortune was large, and our family estate much encumbered.†   (source)
  • Stiffness of age encumbers you even now" And he gave the bowl.†   (source)
  • Out of the melee men of his command carried the captain in his agony, encumbered by the long dragging spear.†   (source)
  • Spent and drenched with sweat beneath his broad shield strap, he felt encumbered by his shield, being arm-weary, and slipped the strap off, wiped his blood away.†   (source)
  • Aias, Oileus' son, drove at Kleoboulos and took him alive, encumbered in the press, but killed him on the spot with a sword stroke across his nape—the whole blade running hot with blood, as welling death and his harsh destiny possessed him.†   (source)
  • I do not then see why, without real necessity, I should encumber my life with a perpetual companion.†   (source)
  • And how unnecessary it has been for you to toil along on foot, and encumber yourself with this heavy load!†   (source)
  • Not to encumber our story with Mr. Pyncheon's scruples, whether of conscience, pride, or fatherly affection, he at length ordered his daughter to be called.†   (source)
  • In the first place, to encumber the street; next, in order that it might finish the process of rusting.†   (source)
  • His notebooks impair his memory; his libraries overload his wit; the insurance office increases the number of accidents; and it may be a question whether machinery does not encumber; whether we have not lost by refinement some energy, by a Christianity intrenched in establishments and forms, some vigor of wild virtue.†   (source)
  • The casket would encumber you.†   (source)
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