"hallowed fountains," and "solemn sound;" but in all Gray's odes there is a kind of cumbrous splendour which we wish away. From Wordnik.com. [Johnson's Lives of the Poets — Volume 2] Reference
It was effective but an expensive and cumbrous method. From Wordnik.com. [Ranching, Sport and Travel] Reference
The apparatus is too cumbrous, -- you do not turn to it. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 85, November, 1864] Reference
Floated a cumbrous boat, that was rowed by Acadian boatmen. From Wordnik.com. [Elson Grammar School Literature v4] Reference
He would not have wished a garrulous eulogy or a cumbrous epitaph. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 24, October, 1859] Reference
We are making four versts an hour in spite of the hills and the cumbrous boots. From Wordnik.com. [The History of the American Expedition Fighting the Bolsheviki Campaigning in North Russia 1918-1919] Reference
At length the cumbrous helmet was lifted off and the face of the diver was revealed. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, October 28, 1914] Reference
The wind was now blowing, but it needed almost a gale to hold out that cumbrous canvas. From Wordnik.com. [Lost in the Fog] Reference
It is a result of the youthfulness of our civilization, that as yet it is cumbrous and unwieldy. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 102, April, 1866] Reference
Its "cumbrous shells" cling like dead weights around man, and keep him from the larger, freer life. From Wordnik.com. [The Life Radiant] Reference
Of course our usual weapon, the long Colt 45° six-shooter could not be so used, being too cumbrous. From Wordnik.com. [Ranching, Sport and Travel] Reference
Being cumbrous and inefficient, they played little part in battle, but were quite useful in a siege. From Wordnik.com. [Artillery Through the Ages A Short Illustrated History of Cannon, Emphasizing Types Used in America] Reference
They were extraordinarily cumbrous, covered with gilding and lined with velvet, embroidered in gold. From Wordnik.com. [The Letter-Bag of Lady Elizabeth Spencer-Stanhope — Volume 1] Reference
Hampered by the shadowy boughs and his cumbrous spoil, Euryalus in his fright misses the line of way. From Wordnik.com. [The Aeneid of Virgil] Reference
This would seem an impossibly cumbrous method of carrying money about nowadays, but I have been informed by. From Wordnik.com. [The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India Volume II] Reference
With these words the young man hurried to his cumbrous chest, and pulling out a short cloak, flung it around him. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 347, September, 1844] Reference
I have here literally translated the botanical name of the Virginia creeper, -- an appellation too cumbrous for verse. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 87, January, 1865] Reference
In passages like these the epic poet gets clear away from the cumbrous inheritance of traditional fancies and stories. From Wordnik.com. [Epic and Romance Essays on Medieval Literature] Reference
Their music was a cumbrous and complicated machinery, and the others were exercises of wit and pleasure and superstition. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 107, September, 1866] Reference
If there is anything in this story that can affect the imagination, it is there unimpaired by anything foreign or cumbrous. From Wordnik.com. [Epic and Romance Essays on Medieval Literature] Reference
Welsh verse always suffers in translation into the more cumbrous English, but there are many who have known the charm even of an. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of the Cambrian A Biography of a Railway] Reference
The old-fashioned method of expressing numerals by letters, instead of figures, is too cumbrous and time-consuming to be tolerated. From Wordnik.com. [A Book for All Readers An Aid to the Collection, Use, and Preservation of Books and the Formation of Public and Private Libraries] Reference
Devonshire, at the stilts of a plough so cumbrous and ineffective that a thrifty New-England farmer would have discarded it at sight. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 83, September, 1864] Reference
The oldest rings known were very large and cumbrous, and they were adorned with stones, sometimes flattened to make seals on wax or clay. From Wordnik.com. [Chatterbox, 1905.] Reference
The cumbrous details, too, of sixty centuries piled upon one mind would crush it, unless human nature were a very different thing from that which we now behold. From Wordnik.com. [Continental Monthly , Vol. 6, No. 1, July, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy.] Reference
At present the cumbrous stone and the slow-moving flat-bed press are being supplanted by the light and pliable aluminum plates and the fast-moving rotary presses. From Wordnik.com. [The Building of a Book A Series of Practical Articles Written by Experts in the Various Departments of Book Making and Distributing] Reference
The gold is buried in solid rock, and requires heavy crushing-mills and cumbrous machinery, which must be built and transported at immense expense by capitalists. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 106, August, 1866] Reference
Without the production of a metal with all these combined qualities, we might still in our journeys, be dawdling along at sixty miles an hour in a cumbrous railroad car behind. From Wordnik.com. [The Dominion in 1983] Reference
One objection to this was that the steam-engine was a cumbrous bit of apparatus to carry about with him to operations; and Lister all his life loved simplicity in his methods. From Wordnik.com. [Victorian Worthies Sixteen Biographies] Reference
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