He seemed to have shed his blundering, encumbering personality, and come to life as a disembodied intelligence.
As if what goes before had not been injury enough, you are found to have adopted the extraordinary practice of encumbering your margin with doubts as to the Readings which after due deliberation you had, as a body, retained.
But would not branches of any considerable size have impeded progress, inconveniently encumbering the road?
It is likely that a considerable portion of the silver now encumbering the vaults of the Treasury might thus find its way into the currency.
Society is in much more danger from encumbering the National Government beyond its wisdom to comprehend, or its ability to administer, than from leaving the local communities to bear their own burdens and remedy their own evils.
He did not fear a robbery with force and arms, although he was satisfied that there was more than one concerned in it, but this he attributed only to the encumbering weight of their expected booty.
He cast aside his pack and all encumbering weight, took a deep breath, lowered his head, and darted like a deer in the direction of the challenge.
He examined it with trembling fingers; the encumbering soil fell from its sides and left its smoothed and worn protuberances glistening in the moonlight.
Safe within the subterranean retreat with the old scientist, Dixon removed his encumbering lead costume and began doing what he could for the stricken pair.
The girl's body was so rigidly inert that Dixon threw back his encumbering hood and knelt over her for a swift examination.
As the mongrel spat out the encumbering gag of fur, Tam's curved fang laid bare the scarred shoulder once grazed by Trask Frayne's buckshot.
In the anguish of choking, the bulldog let go Buff's foreleg and shook himself furiously to get free of that encumbering hold.
Judge Thayer appeared to be the only man in town who was genuinely happy over the result of Morgan's sweeping out the encumbering rubbish that blocked the country's progress by its noisome notoriety.
Dawn was breaking when he at last found strength to mount the low bank through the encumbering brush and vines.
Daffodils peeped out their yellow faces from tufts of encumbering weeds; and stooping down, Rotha found an abundance of polyanthus scattered about among the other things, and periwinkle running wild.
Again one of those close and terrible volleys was poured into them, thinning the ranks and encumbering every step with dead; and again they halted and wavered.
But in the encumbering hurry of the world we perceive it not; in the noise of our daily vanities we hear not the waters of Siloah which go softly.
The weather was intensely cold for the season; the air was filled with snow and sleet; the chilled water made ice rapidly, encumbering the schooner, and loading down her decks and rigging.
There are five and one-half millions of such lazy, worthless fellowsencumbering that land today.
But may He enable us to discriminate more and more, and lead us to cease encumbering our gospel to the East with such unessential thought and ritual as are suited to us but not to them.
They had come for once rather well provided with clothing and baggage; but Howe laughed aloud at the thought of soldiers encumbering themselves with more impedimenta than was actually needful.
Our riches would soon become encumbering and their accumulation would produce a medley as impenetrable as the unknown true was for the ignorant.
Briefly, then, and without encumbering my book with masses of authority, let me state that in all early lore, the road is a symbol of life; Christ himself having used it in this sense.
I call especial attention to this fact, so that no one may accuse me of encumbering my pages with Rommany.
He threw off his encumbering toga and walked in his tunic, with bare throat and bare knees, and carried the toga over one bare arm, and swung the other bare arm free.
Their writer seemed to have drawn from all sources intrinsically vital truths, and separated them from their encumbering theologic verbiage and dogma, and had traced them simply through to the great "Sermon on the Mount.
Every poet was an original, more suo, mindless of the encumbering alloy, for they knew that the vein they had opened was their own, and confided too frequently in its abundance to find its richness.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "encumbering" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: burdensome; cumbersome; cumbrous; hampering; onerous; oppressive; unwieldy
