Encumbrance

But at this stage Hitler wished to avoid the "encumbrance" of the capital cities, with their huge and hungry populations, and believed that by dividing his strength between the north, where Leningrad was to be ❋ Clark, Alan (1965)

Mrs. Corcoran Dunn's congratulations on riddance from the "encumbrance" shamed her and stilled the reproaches of her conscience. ❋ Joseph Crosby Lincoln (1907)

But pupils are not readily attainable by a heretic woman, away from her natural home, and with a young child as "encumbrance". ❋ Annie Wood Besant (1890)

Well, my dear father, in the shipwreck of life -- for life is an eternal shipwreck of our hopes -- I cast into the sea my useless encumbrance, that is all, and I remain with my own will, disposed to live perfectly alone, and consequently perfectly free. " ❋ Alexandre Dumas P��re (1836)

In America, land of the deckle edge, your chances of a pleasant surprise are greater; but the jacket remains an unnecessary and vulnerable encumbrance. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Later, the researchers gave B-19 the button back, but only after hiring him a prostitute, whom he very happily had sex with while they watched – "despite the milieu and the encumbrance of the electrode wires". ❋ Unknown (2011)

He was the owner, without encumbrance, of two hundred and fifty thousand acres of land — ­land that varied in value from a thousand dollars an acre to ❋ Unknown (2010)

Williamson doesn't say, allowing his readers to speculate with little encumbrance. ❋ Stephen Stromberg (2011)

In most cases, simply getting office floorplates to lay out well for residential units would be a serious encumbrance. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Make sure and apply armor check/encumbrance penalties to those checks to overcome obstacles! ❋ Unknown (2009)

A Pathfinder Chronicler or a Balanced Scale of Abadar could come in incredibly handy with encumbrance. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Only those who have a doctor's certificate declaring them to be clinical alcoholics would be spared this encumbrance. ❋ Unknown (2011)

It is true that Francis's dream of a monastic order that renounced the encumbrance and corruption of property was frustrated by the papacy and by his own successors. ❋ Jonathan Sumption (2011)

If the title company fails to discover a valid lien against the property and insures the title free of such encumbrance, the buyer would be protected down the road against a claim made by the party asserting an interest in the real estate. ❋ Ron Gitter (2011)

* Whether there is a patent or other encumbrance that would make it illegal to build a competing device that can read or convert the "DRM-free" files ❋ Unknown (2009)

Because freedom is defined by an individual's right to engage in this exchange freely, any encumbrance is tyrannical. ❋ John Stoehr (2011)

If you: make them track encumbrance minutely require them to make a lot of rolls to “wake up” in a campsite combat make them not carry loaded crossbows make them draw their swords in the first round of every combat require lots of skill checks to distinguish their ass from a hole in the ground and other stuff like that ❋ Unknown (2009)

In the case of England on Sunday this was not necessary as Strauss and Bell were going along so comfortably that they would actually view the powerplay as an encumbrance. ❋ Unknown (2011)