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Definition of Encumbers
1. encumber [v] - See also: encumber
Lexicographical Neighbors of Encumbers
Literary usage of Encumbers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Dawn in Britain by Charles Montagu Doughty (1906)
"Nathless dark dread encumbers those lords' breasts ; That, from this day, should
fortune of the war, Go backward. ..."
2. A Classical Tour Through Italy, An. MDCCCII. by John Chetwode Eustace (1815)
"The paintings might then be restored with perfect security, and the work of
reparation finished by removing the present Gothic obelisk that encumbers the ..."
3. The Classical Mythology of Milton's English Poems by Charles Grosvenor Osgood (1900)
"The myth never encumbers the poet and gets in his way. It does not have the
appearance of something in the wrong place, which makes itself the excuse for ..."
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