He struck the channels from a fall of twenty feet up the rigging, and was probably either encumbered by heavy clothing, or too much injured to be able to reach the buoys.
A man, I was told, should walk there in an hour and a half; and I thought it scarce too ambitious to suppose that a man encumbered with a donkey might cover the same distance in four hours.
Plans, petty or vast, affecting the interests of empires and ages, or bounded within the narrow limits of trivial and evanescent detail, encumbered his memory and consumed his time.
While the stream was stillencumbered with ice, however, the enemy removed all the boats.
If the Chinese attacked them whilst they were struggling through the thick undergrowth, encumbered with the two Maxims, ammunition, and provision-boxes, it would go hard with them.
But this delay was accounted for by the fact that Davoust had found a marsh without a bridge, and completely encumbered with wagons.
Being cast in the mould of Kantism, or at least clothed in its garments, these productions, to readers unacquainted with that system, are encumbered here and there with difficulties greater than belong intrinsically to the subject.
By a new mode of management, much of the homeliness and rude horror, that defaced and encumbered the reality, is thrown away.
The banquet was served in one of the halls facing the great square, which a few hours before had been the scene of slaughter, and the pavement of which was still encumbered with the dead bodies of the Inca's subjects.
He stipulated that the associates should secure to him the sum of one thousand pesos de oro in requital of his goodwill, and they eagerly closed with his proposal, rather than be encumbered with his pretensions.
It was nobles trained in this school, experts in vice, but with no nerve for arms, who encumbered the train of Otho on his march to the sanguinary conflict on the Po.
They were not, indeed, encumbered with dignity or self-respect.
As these grew less in number and difficult to overtake, they set to work again to till the ground, and cleared away small portions of the earth, encumbered already with brambles and thistles.
The edge was encumbered with brushwood and fallen trees; he scrambled over and through anyhow; he tore a path through the bushes and plunged in.
Had I been on a side-saddle, and encumbered with a riding-habit, I should have been drowned.
Having finished, the heat being intense, and they mightily encumbered with garments, did presently turn their backs on the king's majesty, making all speed towards the gateway for shelter.
Brighteyes proved herself to be quite as expert as her male companions in advancing like a snake through the long grass, though encumberedwith a blanket wrapped round her shoulders.
The path--if such it may be called--which they followed was one which had been naturally formed by wild animals and wandering Indians taking the direction that was least encumbered with obstructions.
His father, Sir George Cotton, was improvident and intemperate in his latter days, and left the poet an encumbered estate situated at Ashbourne, in Derbyshire, near the river Dove.
After a few days' more traveling, their provisions were all expended, and the seamen began to murmur, and resolved to take care of themselves, and not to be encumbered with women and children.
It is easy to understand how the neighbourhood of a marsh or of a rock-encumbered rapid should have suggested the crocodile as supreme deity to the inhabitants of the Fayûm or of Ombos.
Encumbered by their heavy packs, they line out to the gangways and march purposely on board.
Under a less heavily encumbered Ministry, our affairs should receive the consideration that is their due.
While new and larger U-boats are sent abroad on the trade routes, special submarines, less encumbered by the stores and equipment that longer passages would demand, make frequent visits to the fairways to sow a freight of mines.
I should have been lost, encumbered as I was with my arms, only for the bearers who saved me.
Amidst all its privations, I feel myself a hundred times more 'à mon aise,' than encumbered and annoyed with a thousand unnecessary conveniences.
The manoeuvre was successful; we out-ran the thieves, who were not aware of our plan, and were encumbered with their heavy cloaks.
At ten o'clock we got under sail; but as our decks were much encumbered with fruit, &c.
He flung away the key, giving her to understand, at the same time, that he had made her the present at her own desire, and that if she found it encumbered her, she should bear it as a punishment for importuning us with her petitions.
