Cumbered

Compare Lu 10: 39, Mary; Lu 2: 37, "Anna ... a widow, who departed not from the temple, but served God with fastings and prayers night and day" (1Ti 5: 5). distraction -- the same Greek as "cumbered" (Lu 10: 40, Martha). ❋ Unknown (1871)

Even in her early youth, what essential aid may an affectionate daughter render to a mother, "cumbered," perhaps, and overburthened with the cares of her household. ❋ Unknown (1851)

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. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The skilled and steady employments are not cumbered with clowns and idiots. ❋ Unknown (2010)

He cumbered our life with his presence, and ours was a rough life that made rough men of us. ❋ Unknown (2010)

I think efficiency in many ways is cumbered and inhibited by meaning. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The middle distance was cumbered with bodies, but the rest surged on, breaking against and over the barricade like an ocean wave. ❋ Unknown (2010)

But Martha was cumbered about much serving, and came to him, and said, Lord, dost thou not care that my sister hath left me to serve alone? bid her therefore that she help me. ❋ Unknown (2008)

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. ❋ H. G. Wells (2009)

Have they forgotten the dark days of the occupation, on the small land of this country, which is cumbered with worry? ❋ Unknown (2008)

Overturned pitchers, and black-jacks, and pewter stoups, and flagons still cumbered the large oaken table; glasses, those more perishable implements of conviviality, many of which had been voluntarily sacrificed by the guests in their enthusiastic pledges to favourite toasts, strewed the stone floor with their fragments. ❋ Unknown (2008)

It was the fault of yon Highland cateran, whom it is my curse to be cumbered with; but he shall go back to his glens tomorrow, or taste the tolbooth of the burgh. ❋ Unknown (2008)

His great superiority of numbers cumbered and impeded his movements. ❋ Unknown (2008)

From this outlet there is a continual descent towards Loch Eitive, and from hence the river Awe pours out its current in a furious stream, foaming over a bed broken with holes, and cumbered with masses of granite and whinstone. ❋ Unknown (2008)

The pass, too, was cumbered with the artillery, and in itself narrow, bordering on mountains and cliffs, a deep lake close beside. ❋ Unknown (2008)

“Nay, by my hand,” said Lord Lindesay, “I know not why we were cumbered with the good knight, unless he comes in place of the lump of sugar which pothicars put into their wholesome but bitter medicaments, to please a froward child — a needless labour, methinks, where men have the means to make them swallow the physic otherwise.” ❋ Unknown (2008)

Scoff not its homeliness, nor that of its inmates — ye might long have abidden at the court of England, ere we had sought your favour, or cumbered you with our society. ❋ Unknown (2008)