All 7 Uses of
encumber
in
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
- 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.†
Chpt 1.1.1 *encumbered = hindered
- 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 Montfauçon, the barrier des Sergents, the Place aux Chats, the Porte Saint-Denis, Champeaux, the Porte Baudets, the Porte Saint Jacques, without reckoning the innumerable ladders of the provosts, the bishop of the chapters, of the abbots, of the priors, who had the decree of life and death,—without reckoning the judicial drownings in the river S†
Chpt 1.2.2
- 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?†
Chpt 1.3.1
- 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.†
Chpt 1.3.2
- An immense crowd, which overflowed into all the neighboring streets, encumbered the Place, properly speaking.†
Chpt 2.8.6
- 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.†
Chpt 2.10.3
- They forced the line of assailants, and fled in every direction, leaving the Parvis encumbered with dead.†
Chpt 2.10.7
Definition:
hinder (make more difficult, or less valuable, hold back, or weigh down)