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Example sentences for "incumbered"

Lexicographically close words:
inculpate; inculpated; incumbency; incumbent; incumbents; incumbrance; incumbrances; incunabula; incur; incurability
  1. The way was through the dense forest, incumbered with rocks and logs, tangled with roots and underbrush, damp with perpetual shade, and redolent of decayed leaves and mouldering wood.

  2. Another band of the Mohawks had meanwhile pursued the other party of Algonquins, and overtaken them on the march, as, incumbered with their sledges and baggage, they were moving from one hunting-camp to another.

  3. I am now without fortune, and incumbered with children.

  4. You are destitute of fortune, incumbered with children.

  5. The reinforcement would not be of sufficient strength to enable the garrison, incumbered as it was with women and children, to cut its way out, while there would be a hundred more mouths to fill.

  6. It would be a long march, for the convoy would be incumbered by the enormous train of stores and munitions of war, while a large number of vehicles were available for their transport.

  7. The bottom of the church is so incumbered with mud and rubbish, that we could make no discoveries of curious inscriptions, and what there are have been already published.

  8. We then walked through a natural arch in the rock, which might have pleased us by its novelty, had the stones, which incumbered our feet, given us leisure to consider it.

  9. The same gale extended as far up the river as the Oromocto, and most of the country below that place was equally incumbered with the fallen trees.

  10. The soil was very fertile, entirely free from rock or stone and little incumbered by forest.

  11. And here I will take the opportunity of remarking that the legislature were guilty of strange oversight, or deliberate injustice, in the passing of the Incumbered Estates Act.

  12. As well might the state of landed property in Ireland before the Incumbered Estates Court was established be adduced as an argument against property in land.

  13. The remedy, however, which the legislature applied to incumbered estates of large proprietors was not to destroy property in land, but simply to secure its prompt, cheap, and effectual transfer to solvent hands.

  14. Those who think themselves not likely to be incumbered with the performance of their promises, either from their known inability or total indifference about the performance, never fail to entertain the most lofty ideas.

  15. I sent you all many kind remembrances, and would have added some of my playthings for Anna, but as he travelled on horseback, neither himself or his servant could be incumbered with them.

  16. The very boulders against which they lean are satires that will endure the tread of the centuries long after this world shall have forgotten that such fellows or their seed had ever incumbered the earth.

  17. We have a, vast interest to preserve, and we possess great means of preserving it: but it is to be remembered that the artificer may be incumbered by his tools, and that resources may be among impediments.

  18. I do not know whether, if I aimed at the total overthrow of a kingdom, I should wish to be incumbered with a larger body of partisans.

  19. Incumbered Estates Court, with a Parliamentary title, and let it to B.

  20. Soon after the famine, the Incumbered Estates Act was passed, by which the creditors of incumbered landlords could force a sale.

  21. The trap is not fastened, but only incumbered with a clog, and is all the more sure in its hold by yielding to every effort of the animal to extricate himself.

  22. It is very long, very tiresome, and incumbered with details of dates and eras.

  23. A figure of Death incumbered with chains beckons to an armed man to follow him into a cave.

  24. Death as a postilion gives notice to a traveller incumbered with his baggage, &c.

  25. You may easily convince the government of the validity of the security, which it is in the power of a growing country, as yet very little incumbered with debt to give.

  26. Wilson's force was too small and already too much incumbered with wounded to justify an attack at close quarters, and the town if taken was too big to hold.

  27. He was incumbered with a wholly disproportionate mass of transport; was directed on an impracticable line; was unsupplied with information of vital importance; and, finally, was sent to conduct an operation of which he strongly disapproved.

  28. The road was so difficult and so much incumbered that the two companions could scarcely converse.

  29. While the other gentlemen incumbered the narrow stairway, the three lords--these three noble types of chivalrous fidelity--remained on the deck.

  30. The giant insisted on making the jaunt on foot, saying he did not wish to be incumbered with a horse.

  31. Up behind the rocks the boy saw Rocks had not taken his rifle into the camp, and Frank knew well enough that was so he might not be incumbered with it if forced to take to flight suddenly and make an attempt to get away with the child.

  32. Our Earth is now incumbered with ruin, our Heaven is clouded by Death.

  33. And now, having cut away the misconceptions which incumbered our thoughts, I shall be able to put the Greek school into some clearness of its position for you, with respect to the art of the world.


  34. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "incumbered" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.