It is not allowable that a guest should stay till he makes himself encumbrance. From LearnThat.org. [www.gaia.com/quotes/topics/guests]
Noun : Poverty was a lifelong encumbrance. From Dictionary.com.
But pupils are not readily attainable by a heretic woman, away from her natural home, and with a young child as "encumbrance". From Wordnik.com. [Autobiographical Sketches] Reference
Hopewell's only encumbrance was his mother-in-law. From Wordnik.com. [How Janice Day Won] Reference
It was an adornment for him and not an encumbrance. From Wordnik.com. [The Ancient Irish Epic Tale Táin Bó Cúalnge] Reference
A dead thing, an encumbrance, the letter that killeth!. From Wordnik.com. [When the Holy Ghost is Come] Reference
I see that I should be quite in your way, an encumbrance. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 29, August, 1873] Reference
To-day they own 13,000 acres of land free from any encumbrance. From Wordnik.com. [Twentieth Century Negro Literature Or, A Cyclopedia of Thought on the Vital Topics Relating to the American Negro] Reference
Euripides considered these athletes an encumbrance on the State. From Wordnik.com. [Outlines of Greek and Roman Medicine] Reference
Our knapsacks -- were we going into action with their encumbrance?. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 4, August, 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
An 'sell Bruno; he's a vicious brute -- nothin' but an encumbrance. From Wordnik.com. [Two Little Travellers A Story for Girls] Reference
A conscience seems to be an encumbrance -- an obstacle to prosperity. From Wordnik.com. [Stories Worth Rereading] Reference
In 1757 Essex recommended the removal of the galilee as being an encumbrance. From Wordnik.com. [Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Ely A History and Description of the Building with a Short Account of the Monastery and of the See] Reference
And her cheeks grew hot again at the thought of the encumbrance she was to him. From Wordnik.com. [The Shadow of the East] Reference
The eastern portion, formerly "an useless encumbrance," was now brought into use. From Wordnik.com. [Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Ely A History and Description of the Building with a Short Account of the Monastery and of the See] Reference
I made showed that I considered her solely as a woman and therefore an encumbrance. From Wordnik.com. [Montlivet] Reference
It would have required years of economy and good management to free it from encumbrance. From Wordnik.com. [The Cryptogram A Novel] Reference
In Scots and English law the term is applied to an encumbrance on real or personal property. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary"] Reference
Italy had shaken off the encumbrance of a number of princelings, -- and was the better for it. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of Russia] Reference
Boxes were besieged; the pit was choked up, and the gallery creaked with its celestial encumbrance. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, September 25, 1841] Reference
But as to my arms, I thought it better to leave them without the encumbrance of any ornament at all. From Wordnik.com. [The Substance of a Dream] Reference
'Father, Miss Gwynne is taking upon herself a risk and encumbrance that should be wholly my mother's. From Wordnik.com. [Gladys, the Reaper] Reference
It is further stated that of all the property held by Negroes, 88.58 per cent is owned without encumbrance. From Wordnik.com. [Twentieth Century Negro Literature Or, A Cyclopedia of Thought on the Vital Topics Relating to the American Negro] Reference
In half an hour they arose majestically from the place, without taking the least notice of their encumbrance. From Wordnik.com. [Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 5] Reference
Nellie to his sole care at six months old, he speedily cast about in his mind to rid himself of the encumbrance. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 23, February, 1873] Reference
The inevitable 'wire mats,' an encumbrance without which few raiding parties ever started, hampered the progress. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of the 2/4th Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry] Reference
Macao, and those who remained, which were near four hundred more, were on many accounts a great encumbrance to him. From Wordnik.com. [Anson's Voyage Round the World The Text Reduced] Reference
Arabs and peasants of the country, who find the power of the foot greater when freed from the encumbrance of a shoe. From Wordnik.com. [Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life] Reference
At the same time Holland was to be evacuated by the French troops, while Switzerland was to be freed from all encumbrance. From Wordnik.com. [The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.III. From George III. to Victoria] Reference
But she pleaded to go with me, said she would be no encumbrance, would ride mule-back to the railway, no matter how far away. From Wordnik.com. [Bidwell's Travels, from Wall Street to London Prison Fifteen Years in Solitude] Reference
He needs to be rid of every encumbrance of physical unfitness if he is to live long and become a blessing and not a burden to society. From Wordnik.com. [Society Its Origin and Development] Reference
It was a pleasurable as well as a profitable arrangement for the lady who was absolutely free of encumbrance and could do as she chose. From Wordnik.com. [A Dixie School Girl] Reference
I let the thought echo into the void, into the great emptiness left by the removal of the encumbrance, the excision of the cosmic tumor. From Wordnik.com. [A Frog in a Well] Reference
Her husband, the Earl of Merivale, she regarded as a necessary encumbrance, inevitable to the possession of the famous Merivale diamonds. From Wordnik.com. [Adrien Leroy] Reference
The Mouth Theory often dispenses with honesty as an unnecessary encumbrance, for honesty can be twisted to mean almost anything it seems. From Wordnik.com. [From the Reader's Ingest, Mouth Theory] Reference
"It is often said that these tools have enabled better hedging and aim to remove the encumbrance of human reaction times," Ms. Bowles added. From Wordnik.com. [EU Commission to push tighter trading controls] Reference
The Indianola was superior to all the others in armament, and probably would have destroyed them or driven them away, but for her encumbrance. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference
"Neither of 'em ain't got nothin ', nor never will have --' ceptin 'that Hopewell's got an encumbrance in the shape of that ha'f silly child.". From Wordnik.com. [How Janice Day Won] Reference
Spanish colonies took off such goods as remained an encumbrance on their hands, and made returns in specie, to the mutual advantage of both parties concerned in it. From Wordnik.com. [An Historical Account of the Rise and Progress of the Colonies of South Carolina and Georgia, Volume 2] Reference
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