He had about thirty-six acres of his own, all well cultivated and well stocked, and free of all mortgage and encumbrance of that kind.
They chiefly belonged to very poor parents, who were engaged all day long at work, and were therefore glad to get rid of their children, who would otherwise only be an encumbrance to them.
Will she not get quit of this spiritual bondage to the heavy body of things, to the encumbrance of deaf clay and blind vegetation, before the light comes that shall redeem and reveal?
The truth is, he whose feebleness is such as to make other men's thoughts an encumbrance to him, can have no very great strength of mind or genius of his own to be destroyed: so that not much harm will be done at the worst.
Ah, I wish I could give you all that I have got, and save you from the encumbrance that is attached to it!
This is the largest average encumbrance among all encumbered homes and farms.
And those owning them free of | | encumbrance | 71.
And those owning them free of | | encumbrance | 72.
You are a clog and an impediment in the way of my happiness, the one encumbrance to be got rid of at any sacrifice.
Now the way is clear before you: you have birth and title, here is fortune ready made; you will have a noble estate of your own when old Quin dies, and you will not be any encumbrance or inconvenience to your father or anybody.
One of my father's first objects was to prevent him from being any encumbrance to you.
Yet it is impossible to preserve them; they would prove a great encumbrance to the farmer.
He said that prisoners were only a useless encumbrance and an embarrassment; but somehow I liked your looks as you lay, white and still, upon the French schooner's deck, and I begged him so hard to save you that he could not deny me.
The true banisher of armour was gunpowder, for when once the thickest armour, which human energy would permit of being worn, could be penetrated, it became but an encumbrance to its wearer.
From all this world's encumbrance did himself assoil.
An encumbrance at least, and no doubt plaguy, or she never would have been called an old cat.
This will give me three months to spend at home, in knitting up old links, and considering how to dispose of my poor little encumbrance till I can set him to make his way here.
The place is a mere misfortune and encumbrance to her as she is, and she would be ten times happier at a watering-place.
He had some slight difficulty in pushing open the door, not because it was fastened, but owing to some encumbrance behind.
When, however, he succeeded in forcing his way in, he found that the encumbrance was nothing more or less than the body of a woman lying dead along the floor of the tiny room.
Either with a view of avoiding unnecessary encumbrance in their course, or through hurry and inadvertence, they had left their blankets near the foot of the tree.
I was an encumbranceto him--I've been an encumbrance to you.
Nor would any kind of snow-shoes have been of the least service, but rather an encumbrance to us, for the surface was so irregular, that they would have thrown us down at every other step.
It was certainly considered incumbent on his son to support him, and he was fortunate in that son's being a very good man; but a few more such journeys to a man of seventy would not impose this encumbrance upon him much longer.
He was neither to be deterred nor cajoled from his expedition, but made his preparations, limiting as much as possible the amount of provisions and stores, in consideration of the difficulties of the route and encumbrance of baggage.
Such limbs as he had were only an encumbrance to this unique pedestrian.
