I sought not this employment--it has been thrust upon me; and I will not cumber myself with more form in the discharge of it, than needs must be tacked to such an occupation.
Cumber not yourself concerning him," answered Howleglas, "we know right well who and what he is.
I will cumber your Grace no longer with my presence," said the Lady Lochleven, "unless you have aught to command me.
Why my--why Lord Cumbershould have appointed him to his agency I cannot imagine.
Sir: I have just perused a circular written by you, calling a meeting at the Castle Cumber Arms, with the object of forming what you are pleased to term, a yeomanry corps of respectable cavalry.
Lord Cumber must be a happy man to have two such valuable agents upon his property.
At a little after ten, I waited upon this, famous agent to the Castle Cumber property, and found him in his office, looking over an account-book with his son.
When shall I write to young Topertoe, the Cumber blade?
The sessions of Castle Cumber having concluded as sessions usually conclude, we beg our reader to accompany us to Deaker Hall the residence of M'Clutchy's father, the squire.
Unsightly barracks, and so forth, cumber the outer ward.
The hills, studded with chimneys, cumber each other; and in all the adjacent hollows, high up and low down, are manufactories.
Your horse is shod, and your farrier paid--what need you cumber yourself further than to mount and pursue your journey?
Hadna she the cumber o' rearin' thee an' doin' for thee all these 'ears?
The sheriff had not looked up from the study of the card, for reading was more difficult to him than man-killing, and Joe Cumber had an opportunity to examine the room.
In the matter of the annexation of those native States which still cumber the earth, we are not altogether free agents.
You preach very seldom; and when ye do preach, do nothing but cumber them that preach truly, as much as lieth in you: that it were much better such were not to preach at all, than so perniciously to preach.
Do they evermore rid the people's business and matters, or cumber and ruffle them?
And it seemed certain that the scheme to cumber Market street and Sutter street with poles and wires was definitely stopped.
Why should I cumber myself with regrets that the receiver is not capacious?
And he said unto the vinedresser, Behold, these three years I come seeking fruit on this fig tree, and find none: cut it down; why doth it also cumber the ground?
Both would have to validate their right to exist; God could not have them cumber the ground.
I do not think," replied Orvar, smiling, "that I need cumber myself with stone arrows.
They were juist a cumber and a care," continued the carrier's wife.
The master, though unwilling to cumber us with a passenger in such weather, was induced, out of pity for the poor destitute creature, to take her aboard.
In these situations, where they would not "cumber the ground," they have been allowed to grow, without exciting the jealousy of the proprietor of the land.
That, I think, will be quite as much as it will be advisable for us to cumber ourselves with.
I was assured that the dead bodies often cumber the shore after the spawning season is over; and the mountaineers all assert that the salmon, having once spawned up here, does not go down to the ocean again.
But whether to fall upon them on a market-day, because of theircumber in business, that I would should be under debate.
E'en so do I hearken thy words: for I wot how they deem it long Till a man from their seed be arisen to deal with the cumberand wrong.
The stairway was not more than three feet broad; there was no handrail to it, and it went up steeply, yet Merlin’s men tried to rush it in a body, only to cumber each other and help the man with the sword.
Thou wilt have thy own way in this matter, so why should I cumber myself to frown and chide at what cannot be helped by me?
By Gog's precious heart, even so do I; But sometime they cumber me pestilently.
