The weirs, with their tumbling waters, and the little eyots, cumbered with tall osiers, add to the picturesque diversity of the scene.
Every individual pot and pan in the housecumbered the back kitchen unwashed and begrimed.
There were always a few rusty spare "hoops" of solid iron scattered about, while a general debris of blacksmithery, outcast and decrepit, cumbered the burnside.
The space beneath the glacier is cumbered with blocks thus sent down; some of them of enormous size.
True, the stratified blocks which here and there cumbered the terraces suggested debacles, but these were local and partial, and did not affect the general question.
Much snow had fallen; at Paris it stillcumbered the streets, and round about Macon it lay thick, as if a more than usually heavy cloud had discharged itself on that portion of the country.
A great machine which cumbered the Tower of St. Paul at Orleans, and was dismantled previous to the celebrated defence against the English, furnished 26 cart-loads of timber.
The 2 volumes are cumbered with 2 volumes more containing, as a Preliminary, a History of the Mutual Relations of Europe and Asia, which probably no man ever read.
The narrow cabin that ran from the cockpit bulkhead to the stem was cumbered with dismantled diving pumps and gear, but there was a locker on each side on which one could sleep.
The Jagas, a conquering tribe in Angola, are reported to have put to death all their children, without exception, in order that the women might not be cumbered with babies on the march.
He stood then upon a bench or terrace cumberedwith rocks, and so broad that few persons casually looking would have suspected it artificial.
A good king, truly, but, alas; he is cumbered with care of the State.
The proposal was accepted; and thereafter for years the quarter was cumbered with brick and skeleton frames, and workingmen were numerous and incessantly busy as colonized ants.
The floating masses of marsh grass, and the slimy stems of the water-plants, doubled our work as we swam, cumbered by our clothing and boots and holding our rifles aloft.
Or perchance thou dost not know of them, which astonishes me more, since Pharaoh in the plagues was not more cumbered with flies than the earth is of Nazarenes.
The feebleness of unwieldy and disunited multitudes cumbered the Carinae, along which he passed.
Carrying her through a street cumbered with prostrate men might mean bodily injury for both of them.
But she was often a little wearied at night, cumbered with much service.
I, poor maiden, then what shall I do, Cumbered by dotage of one Calisto?
No sound came to disturb me, I had few cares to vex me; it was like that highest state of being which Plotinus spoke of, when one is cumbered not with the toils of living.
The Valley pike, in the region of Middletown, proved a cumbered path.
Before them stretched level fields, gold with sunshine and with blossoming mustard, crossed and cumbered with numerous rail fences.
All the great plateau was cumbered with debris of the struggle.
Schools of fish, struggling and leaping, filled the space immediately above the water, and cumbered the raft with a writhing mass.
Blood crept down the stairs; dead men cumbered the beds and jammed the doors.
His one hope lay in some great battle in the woods, where the King's mailed chivalry would be cumbered by the trees.
Moreover, he was cumbered with the imminent peril of his cause, and the facing of a stormy fortune.
Moreover, being cumbered with a generous burden of pity, he was in mortal dread of wounding her pale proud grief.
Horror ruled black-browed over its pine-cumbered hills, its gloomy depths.
We charged in three masses as we had stood on the ridge, following those open lanes of ground up which the foe had not come, because these were less cumbered with dead and wounded.
I believe we had a nicer time than if we'd known they were coming and been cumbered with much serving.
XIV A Danger Averted Anne, walking home from the post office one Friday evening, was joined by Mrs. Lynde, who was as usual cumbered with all the cares of church and state.
Where thou ridest forth to the battle and the dead hope dulleth thy light, And with shame thy hand is cumbered when the sword is uplifted to smite?
They were on foot, and our horses, though cumbered with two riders, at first left them a long way behind.
The defenders were one hundred and four in number (for the native contingent withdrew before the approach of the enemy), and they were cumbered with the care of thirty-five sick men.
The Lean Man sat on, his head between his hands, his feet working shiftlessly among the last year's leaves that still cumbered the neglected garden.
Do as he would, he could not shake off the influence of moaning wind and black, cloud-cumbered skies.
Mayhap, thou wouldst rather own all these than to be cumbered with so much grain.
Armstrong's Good Night The storm had blown over, but heavy flakes of cloud still cumbered the air, and gusts of wind portended that it might gather again.
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