Incumbrances [noun]

Hitherto I have only been a clog and an incumbrance to you; but I trust I shall soon behave better, and make myself useful.

Tell them to bring her back, even with that beastly incumbrance.

But perhaps you will wish the old man dead, now, that you may enjoy his money without any incumbrance.

The golden treasure with which many had loaded themselves proved a frightful incumbrance.

But you'll say, this must be a very great Incumbrance, and take up a deal of Equipage.

Is it possible that with Union or disunion before us we can hesitate as to taking on this incumbrance?

In a thousand ways she had been made to suffer for being an incumbrance.

Mrs. Willmot would only be too glad to get rid of an incumbrance.

In their eyes she was only an incumbrance—another applicant for Averil's bounty.

A house would be an incumbrance and finger-bowls as superfluous as a piano.