121 examples of cumbering in sentences

His spirit, after death, will be merely like 'cold embers,' cumbering the 'hearth of shame.'

Girt with the arms of the first Wisdom, free Your country from the frauds that cumber it!

Thus, George, who was proceeding to tidy back the rubbish which was cumbering the place, discovered something which caused him to cry out to us his astonishment.

It would also follow that the names of substances would not only have, as in truth they have, but would also be supposed to have different significations, as used by different men, which would very much cumber the use of language.

We clambered over the broken stones cumbering the entrance, and mounted the steps to the very summit.

We climbed a toilsome zig-zag through the snow, hurried over the stones cumbering the top, and all at once the mountains fell away, ridge below ridge, gashed with tremendous chasms, whose bottoms were lost in blue vapor, till the last heights, crowned with white Maronite convents, hung above the sea, whose misty round bounded the vision.

The fragments cumbering the arena were enormous, and highly interesting from their character.

These last became such an intolerable nuisance after a time, that she was forced to swathe herself in a hot and cumbering veil.

The fallen fortresses of the Rhine or the robber-castles of the Odenwald had not for me so exciting an interest as the shapeless ruins cumbering these lonely mountains.

Nor coming humourist's puddled opinions, Nor courteous ruin of proffer'd usury, Nor time prattled away, cradle of ignorance, Nor causeless duty, nor cumber of arrogance, Nor trifling titles of vanity dazzleth us, Nor golden manacles stand for a paradise.

Private Gerald Bunthrop's battalion had been hurried up to support the broken and breaking line, was thrust into a badly wrecked trench with crumbling sides and broken traverses, with many dead and wounded cumbering the feet of the few defenders, with a reek of high-explosive fumes catching their throats and nostrils.

The fallen fortresses of the Rhine, or the robber-castles of the Odenwald had not for me so exciting an interest as the shapeless ruins cumbering these lonely mountains.

The world is now going forward, prouder than ever, and though we thank Rome for the legacy she has left us, we would not wish the dust of her ruin to cumber our path.

CHAPTER XXII Of all humans cumbering the earth Dave Cowan thought farmers the most pitiable.

"Yes," he continued, after a pause,"all the careful Marthas in those days will have no excuse for not sitting at the feet of Jesus; there will be no cumbering with much serving; the Church will have only Maries in those days.

Here the soft pipe no more shall invite us to slumber The thunder our lullaby sings; Our eyes not the maiden's dark tresses shall cumber, Them the raven shall shade with his wings!

The accounts of them are vague, or the promised results of such slight importance as not to warrant cumbering with them this already too voluminous report.

Some of these succumbed outright; others unfortunately survived, and clung with feeble and vicious helplessness to the skirts of their manlier fellows; and from them have descended the shiftless squatters, the "mean whites," the listless, uncouth men who half-till their patches of poor soil, and still cumber the earth in out-of-the-way nooks from the crannies of the Alleghanies to the canyons of the southern Rocky Mountains.

cumber not yourself and me to get a curiously rich dinner for this man and woman who have just alighted at our gate....

The greedy nobles and landed gentry, who grabbed the ancient foundations of the old religion, cared nothing for the books they found cumbering the walls, and either devoted them to vile domestic uses or sold them in shiploads across the seas.

The book is not a mere harmless piece of literary presumption; it is a positive evil, as cumbering ground which might be better occupied, and as giving such authority as it may acquire to false views of Art and to numerous errors of fact.

" At the moment he intended to present him with the two hundred dollars which were cumbering his boots.

" The road was a smooth and easy one, barring a few cumbering bowlders.

It was a dull November day; the atmosphere was glutinous with a pale mist, which made the leaves stick together in bunches, helplessly cumbering the ground.

'And I'm glad we're off!'she said to herself, her small feet dancing'we've been cumbering this ground, Miss Anna and Ia deal too long!'

121 examples of  cumbering  in sentences