Perhaps Leiberman has forgotten that it is in cumbent upon senators to reflect the wants and needs of the American people. ❋ Unknown (2009)
When Dyer wrote blank verse he slipped into the Thomsonian diction, "cumbent sheep" and "purple groves pomaceous." ❋ Unknown (1886)
[33] "Stems numerous from the crown of the root-stock, de-cumbent." ❋ John Ruskin (1859)
Altar-tombs with cumbent effigies were painted so as to correspond in tone with the colours displayed on the walls; the pavement of encaustic tiles, of different devices, was interspersed with sepulchral slabs and inlaid brasses; and screen-work, niches for statuary, mouldings, and sculpture of different degrees of excellence, abounded. ❋ Matthew Holbeche Bloxam (1846)
In the south aisle of Westminster-abbey, joining to Dr. Busby's, is erected a very noble marble monument to the memory of Dr. South, with his effigies in a cumbent posture, containing the following inscription: ❋ 1634-1716 (1823)
I am sorry you are discontent with there being no standing figure of Alphonso, and that I acquiesced in its being cumbent. ❋ Horace Walpole (1757)
The steeple of the church, lately rebuilt handsomely, stands some paces from the body; in the latter are three tombs of the old Berkeleys;, with cumbent figures. ❋ Horace Walpole (1757)
Blackleach, a great curiosity; for, though the figures of him and his wife are cumbent, they are very graceful, designed by ❋ Horace Walpole (1757)
In the First Congressional District in the eastern part of the state, the more conservative of the state's two congressional districts, two-term Democratic in cumbent Carol Shea-Porter, whose favorability ratings have plunged since last fall, appears to be in the most peril. ❋ Unknown (2010)
"It's in - cumbent upon purchasing professionals to select suppliers that have a desire and management to improve quality, reduce lead time, and provide the cor - rect quantities of items purchased." ❋ Batjaa_sh (2009)
With regard to animals, the general rule is ap - plied, without any exceptions: taUy and not longy being employed to denote the height of the hu - man body, when in an ere6l pollure; and longy and not tally to denote its length when in an in - cumbent fit nation. ❋ Unknown (1797)
I cumbent on me to ftate that I have en - joyed, in carrying on the work, advan - tages of fuch a nature as to leave me almoft without apology for the greater part of its errors and imperfeftions. ❋ Unknown (1797)
The old glebe, upon which a part of the village now Hands, was exchanged in 1727, by a formal con trafi betweea the Earl of Eglintcvun, the preftrytery of Irvine, and the in - cumbent, for a fmall farm near the town of Beith, confiding, as is mentioned in the contrad, of 31 acres 3 roods. ❋ Unknown (1791)
For cumbent ftieep; from broken flumber oft They rife benumb'd, and vainly ihift the couch; ❋ Unknown (1790)
But as direftions diametrically oppofite to thcfc have been formerly given by other writers, it is in - cumbent to produce reafons for each part of this maxim. ❋ Unknown (1767)
The tenure of office of George B. Olson, in - cumbent of the office of superintendent of streets and sewers of the town of B.lmont, shall, upon the effective date of this act, be unlimited, but he may be removed therefrom for cause after hearing in the manner provided by section forty-three of chapter thirty-one of the General Laws. ❋ Unknown (1663)
The tenure of office of John A. Hilditch, in - cumbent of the office of chief of police in the town of Hop - kinton, shall, upon the effective date of this act, be unlimited. ❋ Unknown (1663)
The office of chief of police of the town of North Reading shall, upon the effective date of this act, be - come subject to the civil service laws and rules relating to police officers in towns and the tenure of office of any in - cumbent thereof shall be unlimited, subject, however, to said laws and rules. ❋ Unknown (1663)
In computing the period of five years of continuous service required under section forty - nine A of chapter thirty-one of the General Laws of an in - cumbent of a municipal office who has entered said military or naval service and returns to said office within one year after the termination of said service, the period between his entry into said service and his return to said office shall be counted. ❋ Unknown (1663)
[I came] and it was [cumbent]. ❋ Poonoonoo (2014)
