An' I shall be nought but
cumber, a-sittin' i' th' chimney-corner.
It shall not
cumber thy steps, as thou treadest along the forest-path: neither shalt thou freight the ship with it, if thou prefer to cross the sea.
from your dreaming In violet bowers, To duty beseeming These star-litten hours - And shake from your tresses Encumber'd with dew The breath of those kisses That
cumber them too -(O !
So desperately
cumbered was Mary to keep her little house over her head, and yet the brave heart was retaining a smiling face for her husband, who must not even know where her little treasures were going.
The walls, crumbling to ruin, had been destroyed as useless obstacles that
cumbered the ground.
The Last Man Left Alive!" Troubled as they were with their own affairs, these people, whose name, much as I would like to express my gratitude to them, I may not even give here, nevertheless
cumbered themselves with me, sheltered me, and protected me from myself.
The oak case that I bought with it
cumbers my desk as I write, and, shut, you would think that it had never contained anything more lethal than fruit-knives.
Always trotting, chatting, and bustling, she was a regular Martha,
cumbered with the cares of this world and quite happy in them.
Perhaps that is why I hated him, for truly he had become an offense to my eyes, and I believed the earth to be
cumbered with his presence.
Didst thou think it was but the darkening of thy bursting eyes the difficulty of thy
cumbered breathing?
She had bowed across the rubbish that
cumbers the world.
But as it was, his trousers
cumbered him in that desperate race, and presently, when he was about sixty yards from us, his boot, polished by the dry grass, slipped, and down he went on his face right in front of the elephant.