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Example sentences for "incumbrances"

Lexicographically close words:
incumbency; incumbent; incumbents; incumbered; incumbrance; incunabula; incur; incurability; incurable; incurables
  1. I made the strictest possible orders in relation to wagons and all species of incumbrances and impedimenta whatever.

  2. Putting aside the lucky few who have some art, some profession, which means everything to them, unmarried women are, as you have said, simply incumbrances and not happy incumbrances at that.

  3. The estate fell to him by the death of his father, five years since; he has given up trade, after having made by it sufficient to pay off some incumbrances by which the family heritage was burdened.

  4. At last it came to pass that Broughton was engaged in arranging the clearing off of certain heavy incumbrances upon the Lechester estate, with money which Marese had received for salvage of the Lucca.

  5. These incumbrances gave him some little uneasiness.

  6. Property cannot be freed from liens or incumbrances by will.

  7. Some of the statutes which do not specially require leases to be in writing, make them void as against purchasers or incumbrances if not recorded.

  8. Neither perhaps did that Prince think national incumbrances to be any evil at all, since the flourishing republic, where he was born, is thought to owe more than ever it will be able or willing to pay.

  9. They sought to avoid all connexions, that might engage their country as a principal in another war upon the Continent; smarting as they were from the losses and incumbrances which the last had entailed upon them and their posterity.

  10. All my heavy and expensive preparations at Tabreez prove to be incumbrances which must be left behind: my trunks were exchanged for bags; and my portable table and chair, several books, large supplies of sugar, etc.

  11. But when you first sent me to Mr. Tims at Ryebury, he asked me a great many questions about you, and told me that you were going to pay off the incumbrances upon Sir Sidney Delaware's estate.

  12. As time wore on, however, he found that he erred in not exerting his abilities, in order to remove the incumbrances which his father had incurred.

  13. If not, the things that remain unrepealed will be, I hope, rather unseemly incumbrances on the building than very materially detrimental to its strength and stability.

  14. All these incumbrances, which are themselves nuisances, produce other incumbrances and other nuisances.

  15. My only comfort, and a very cold one, is that, though these incumbrances must be paid at my expence, they were not contracted by my imprudence.

  16. A variety of schemes would offer, old incumbrances would appear, and you yourself would be the first surprised to find the sum almost sunk to nothing.

  17. The money certainly was raised, but the incumbrances were so lazy, that in general they remained in statu quo.

  18. He left large landed estates, with large incumbrances to overwhelm them; and thirteen children survived to lament his departure.

  19. They had no incumbrances in the shape of children, and they moved from one place to another, just as his jealousy inclined him, till they moved back to England at last, after having been married close on four years.

  20. The engines, which are nearly twice the size of ours, with a covered enclosure for the engineer and stoker, carry large fenders or guards in front, to lift incumbrances from the track.

  21. The engine itself, being a high-pressure one, and consequently without the incumbrances of condenser and air-pump, occupied much less room than one of ours in a ship of the same tonnage.

  22. Another reason is, that when the snow has fallen to some depth, the light timbers cannot be cut close to the ground, or the dead branches and other incumbrances collected and thrown in heaps.


  23. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "incumbrances" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.