| 单词 | cumbrous |
| 例句 | She could write the scene three times over, from three points of view; her excitement was in the prospect of freedom, of being delivered from the cumbrous struggle between good and bad, heroes and villains. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z Only the cumbrous irony of his tone made her feel unreal herself—made her unable to put her own words simply. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z Like the restaurant’s long menu, cumbrous name and odd location, it’s another example of everything verging on overconceptualization. In St. Petersburg, Friendly Service and Fresh Fare 2016-04-01T04:00:00Z This cumbrous and costly apparatus kept the field to itself for some time.” The most important invention in the history of the modern city 2014-02-23T13:00:00Z Set in a luxuriant landscape — 11,000 acres of swaying sugar cane, and terrain resembling an upside-down egg carton — is cumbrous industrial equipment for producing spirits. On a Caribbean Rum Trail 2014-02-21T19:02:44Z It turns out that digital television, originally meant as a convenient alternative to clunky cable, can be just as knotty and cumbrous as the business it’s trying to replace. Why Oprah’s Meghan and Harry Special Won’t Have a Streaming Home 2021-03-09T05:00:00Z The Road Home Program, a state program supposed to help rebuild, was cumbrous and slow, and grants often didn’t cover the cost of repairs. New Orleans’ Katrina challenges may hold lessons for Houston 2017-09-01T04:00:00Z He pursued her briefly and cumbrously with unexpected visits and tentative love-letters; she eluded him without much difficulty. Virginia Woolf letter urging friend to 'go on living' goes to auction 2015-12-15T05:00:00Z In 1878 was passed the ponderous Local Government Act, adapted from the recent Victorian legislation, but denounced by the Opposition in the Assembly at the time as far too cumbrous save for town municipalities. Our First Half-Century: A Review of Queensland Progress Based Upon Official Information 2012-04-22T02:00:09.320Z And, with the cumbrous old machinery of Boards of Guardians and Poor Law Overseers out of the way, Howell Gruffydd, it was whispered, might before long become a Councillor. Mushroom Town 2012-04-21T02:00:25.923Z Evidently some more efficient and less cumbrous method was requisite if the population of reunited Spain was to enjoy the blessing of uniformity in faith. A History of The Inquisition of The Middle Ages; volume II 2012-04-18T02:00:12.957Z All this shows how crude and cumbrous an implement was the episcopal and legatine Inquisition even in the most energetic hands, and how formless and tentative was its procedure. A History of The Inquisition of The Middle Ages; volume I 2012-04-17T02:00:16.473Z Both were men-of-war that moved forward slowly, cumbrously, as if in pain. Submarine U93 2012-04-07T02:00:34.693Z To many workers and thinkers in the domain of electrical invention, the apparatus and devices that are familiar, appear cumbrous and wasteful, and subject to severe limitations. The inventions, researches and writings of Nikola Tesla With special reference to his work in polyphase currents and high potential lighting 2012-03-28T02:00:22.660Z Now here, now there, in sharp and rapid onset, they could assail the cumbrous masses and unwieldy strength of their antagonists, as the king-bird attacks the eagle, or the sword-fish the whale. The Conspiracy of Pontiac and the Indian War after the Conquest of Canada 2012-03-26T02:00:34.423Z Such devices, however, were too cumbrous and obsolete to be of any avail against a crime so sedulously and so easily concealed as heresy, even if the prelates had been zealous and earnest persecutors. A History of The Inquisition of The Middle Ages; volume II 2012-04-18T02:00:12.957Z When supernatural means were not resorted to, the proceedings were far too cumbrous and uncertain to be efficient against an evil so widely spread and against malefactors so numerous. A History of The Inquisition of The Middle Ages; volume I 2012-04-17T02:00:16.473Z Yet there are brilliant lichens upon the bricks that are not the growth of yesterday, and the cumbrous sashes of the tall plain windows are not of the fashion of to-day. The Portsmouth Road and Its Tributaries To-Day and in Days of Old 2012-03-25T02:00:04.800Z There are two fundamental types of memory: One is very mobile—it acquires quickly and loses just as quickly; the other is more cumbrous in its action—it acquires slowly, but retains forever. Piano Playing: With Piano Questions Answered 2012-03-22T02:00:35.350Z It was a cumbrous and yet cramped vehicle lined with clean striped cotton. The Fortunate Isles Life and Travel in Majorca, Minorca and Iviza 2012-03-21T02:00:34.053Z The road was heavy and deeply rutted from the recent passage of cumbrous transport wagons and artillery. A Hero of Li?ge 2012-03-16T02:00:21.347Z This procedure, which is authorized by part i. of the act of 1890, is obviously both cumbrous and costly. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 7 "Horticulture" to "Hudson Bay" 2012-03-04T03:00:13.390Z The latter now wore a very tight white uniform, and a rather high and cumbrous kepi lay on the chair at his side. Long Odds 2012-03-02T03:00:08.670Z It was exceedingly cumbrous, and the few inhabitants were in as great danger of being governed too much as later communities have often been. Nooks and Corners of the New England Coast 2012-02-22T03:00:25.113Z It is customary to print the text as delivered; and this must be my excuse for the cumbrous apparatus of notes, much of which might have been taken into an enlarged text. Science and Medieval Thought The Harveian Oration Delivered Before the Royal College of Physicians, October 18, 1900 2012-02-22T03:00:23.620Z At the kick of the cumbrous weapons the men flung them down in alarm, crying out that they were possessed with evil spirits. With Drake on the Spanish Main 2012-02-20T03:00:17.357Z This is not so cumbrous as the periwig we have noticed. England in the Days of Old 2012-02-18T03:00:17.863Z The single day-work yields sometimes only one penny or a little more, and the landlord is glad to exchange this cumbrous and cheap commodity for money-rents, even for small ones. Villainage in England Essays in English Mediaeval History 2012-02-15T03:00:35.553Z It loves the old forms, though some of them seem cumbrous for "Little Rhody." Nooks and Corners of the New England Coast 2012-02-22T03:00:25.113Z It is a cumbrous, dull production, but is relieved with a multitude of fine and felicitous passages, and lends itself most happily to quotation. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 9 "Dagupan" to "David" 2012-02-11T03:03:39.807Z Without whose quickening glance their cumbrous orbs Were brute unlovely mass, inert and dead, And not, as now, the green abodes of life— How many forms of being wait on thee! Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol III, No 13, 1851 2012-02-10T03:00:15.463Z It's astonishing how remote, cumbrous and expensive it makes 34 De Vere Gardens seem. The Letters of Henry James (volume I) 2012-02-08T03:00:15.197Z How involved and cumbrous, and how undignified in its appeal to the emotions, is much of "Antony and Cleopatra" in comparison with "Phèdre." Tragedy 2012-01-31T03:00:19.343Z The script as finally developed and used by the Assyrians is cumbrous and complicated, and very ill adapted to the sounds of the Semitic alphabet. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 8 "Cube" to "Daguerre, Louis" 2012-01-31T03:00:17.257Z Strange that he did not apply his knowledge of the one to the other, and that even to-day our timepieces are burdened with the old and cumbrous Roman numerals! Legends & Romances of Spain 2012-01-10T03:00:18.593Z No cumbrous footmen were permitted to invade this retreat of luxury. Discipline 2012-01-08T03:00:17.620Z The Dragon reeled cumbrously sideways and bit the dust, of which there was plenty. The King of Schnorrers Grotesques and Fantasies 2011-12-28T03:00:34.587Z A less cumbrous and more efficient method of connection consists in joining the reservoirs by a single pipe at the top, as shown in Fig. Gas-Engines and Producer-Gas Plants A Practice Treatise Setting Forth the Principles of Gas-Engines and Producer Design, the Selection and Installation of an Engine, Conditions of Perfect Operation, Producer-Gas Engines and Their Possibilities, the Care of Gas-Engines and Producer-Gas Plants, with a Chapter on Volatile Hydrocarbon and Oil Engines 2011-12-28T03:00:31.087Z Or against future assaults of the same kind was it not possible to provide themselves with some less cumbrous weapon than they had now to their hands? The History of the Post Office From Its Establishment Down to 1836 2011-12-19T03:00:45.273Z The tax on tenant-farmers is equally heavy, estimated by a cumbrous assessment, based on the number of draught-oxen employed, or the head of grazing stock. Wild Spain (Espa?a agreste) Records of Sport with Rifle, Rod, and Gun, Natural History Exploration 2011-12-05T03:00:38.980Z He pictured the cumbrous vehicle swinging in its straps between the black February hedgerows. The Passionate Elopement 2011-12-02T03:00:19.930Z The Christian church, like the Jewish, rapidly degenerated into a tissue of legends and observances—at first representative of morality, soon cumbrous, finally inimical to it. From the Oak to the Olive A Plain record of a Pleasant Journey 2011-11-26T03:00:12.337Z Her gestures were painfully awkward; her walk was a cumbrous prance; she seemed incapable of seating herself without an elastic bounce. An Ambitious Woman A Novel 2011-11-23T03:00:54.137Z No,—'tis the struggling spirit's hour of joy, The glad emancipation of the soul, The moment when the cumbrous fetters drop, And the bright spirit wings its way to heaven! The American Reformed Cattle Doctor 2011-11-14T03:00:19.813Z All this is done in a very cumbrous manner, and is accompanied by incessant barking. Natural History in Anecdote Illustrating the nature, habits, manners and customs of animals, birds, fishes, reptiles, etc., etc., etc. 2011-11-12T03:00:32.773Z I cannot now th' oppressor Lift from my soul; I am bow'd down,—subdued,— Crush'd even to earth,—yet crawling heavily, A cumbrous burden, wearied, useless here, And without purport to my fellow-men!— The Legendary and Poetical Remains of John Roby author of 'Traditions of Lancashire', with a sketch of his literary life and character 2011-11-07T02:00:18.317Z But madame informed me that this cumbrous ornament has now passed out of fashion, the tulle veil and orange flowers of French usage having generally taken its place. From the Oak to the Olive A Plain record of a Pleasant Journey 2011-11-26T03:00:12.337Z He was made to be a straightforward man; he is too cumbrous to be a knave. Saul of Tarsus A Tale of the Early Christians 2011-10-28T02:00:22.437Z I took the tackle, a stiff black rubber worm, That stuck out its pointed tail from a cumbrous hook, "But there can't be fishing in water like this," I said. Poems - First Series 2011-10-28T02:00:21.917Z He has remnants of the old periphrases, the cumbrous mythological allusions, the poetical “properties” of French verse. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 2 "French Literature" to "Frost, William" 2011-10-14T02:00:26.280Z Mulholland's boys had hired a lot of old-fashioned cadet musquetoons, heavy and cumbrous, but they were marvellous weapons in the eyes of the lads. From School to Battle-field A Story of the War Days 2011-10-10T02:00:19.987Z So have we known through prejudice and use, A mind that crawls in one pernicious groove, A dreary tunnel with the narrowest views, A cumbrous mind inflexibly obtuse, Which reason cannot turn nor feeling move. A Century of Emblems 2011-10-08T02:00:24.280Z A manumitted slave, a cumbrous yokel of an Essene, hath given thee troublous nights, because the lady's eyes soften in his presence! Saul of Tarsus A Tale of the Early Christians 2011-10-28T02:00:22.437Z Unfortunately for himself, he has discovered that his collections, in this department, covered several hundred pages of manuscript, and that, if printed, they would render his volume too cumbrous. American Pomology Apples 2011-10-03T02:00:29.477Z "So I thought," responded Merrill; "to me there appeared something too absurd in conveying through the streets at night so cumbrous an instrument—carrying it on a hand-barrow, like porters." Pencil Sketches or, Outlines of Character and Manners 2011-10-01T02:00:32.597Z Before the time of Watt, the steam engine was exclusively a steam pump—slow, cumbrous, wasteful of fuel, and very little used. Great Inventions and Discoveries 2011-10-01T02:00:30.900Z By Mrs. M. J. Preston, Lexington, Va. Halt! the march is over; Day is almost done; Loose the cumbrous knapsack, Drop the heavy gun. Southern War Songs Camp-Fire, Patriotic and Sentimental 2011-09-27T02:00:19.517Z The sooner this cumbrous term with its misleading suggestions is altogether eliminated from the vocabulary of science the better. Spencer's Philosophy of Science The Herbert Spencer Lecture Delivered at the Museum 7 November, 1913 2011-09-25T02:00:15.883Z Come, too, you sons of English colonists, and see the flag of England float strangely in the Hudson River breezes while they are still loaded with the cumbrous sounds of the Low Dutch language! The Life and Times of Kateri Tekakwitha The Lily of the Mohawks 2011-09-16T02:00:21.817Z In the chamber for an interval could be heard only the measured tick-tack of the cumbrous clock and the wheezing of the asthmatic servant, who dozed, leaning against the sideboard. Whirlpools A Novel of Modern Poland 2011-09-16T02:00:19.893Z Then began the slow, painful, cumbrous method by which the law of the land requires military courts to extract their evidence, every question and answer being reduced to writing. Trumpeter Fred A Story of the Plains 2011-09-15T02:00:11.393Z The things that are requisite and necessary would remain still to be done, though land were nationalized to-morrow, and they can be equally well done without introducing that cumbrous innovation at all. Contemporary Socialism 2011-09-10T02:00:28.673Z These lanterns have a cumbrous and heavy appearance in the day time; and hanging over the middle of the street, they stop all passing while they are cleaned or lighted. Four Years in France or, Narrative of an English Family's Residence there during that Period; Preceded by some Account of the Conversion of the Author to the Catholic Faith 2011-09-09T02:00:59.237Z The most cumbrous piece was a hamper, of which Swift formed expectations that were speedily confirmed. Tiny Luttrell 2011-09-07T02:00:16.757Z The official heads of the profession laughed away his invention, which, though cumbrous, deserved a better fate. Garcia the Centenarian And His Times Being a Memoir of Manuel Garcia's Life and Labours for the Advancement of Music and Science 2011-09-05T02:00:19.693Z We shall ascend by one of the small rapid lifts built for four or five persons only, and not the large and more cumbrous machines. The City in the Clouds 2011-08-31T02:01:31.807Z The dark oak-pannels chilled us from their waveless depths; the cumbrous organ, carved with fruit and flowers, kept frozen silence; while in the chapel, Sir Nicholas in stone and mildew struck to our marrow. Lost Sir Massingberd, v. 2/2 A Romance of Real Life 2011-08-25T02:00:33.793Z The vitalizing principle of the society, the motive power of this cumbrous mass, was the small nucleus of Arab tribes that had come forth from the heart of the peninsula. The Moral and Intellectual Diversity of Races With Particular Reference to Their Respective Influence in the Civil and Political History of Mankind 2011-08-19T02:00:11.867Z Obviously, the plan was a cumbrous one, and without hesitation it was abandoned. World's End A Story in Three Books 2011-08-16T02:00:47.740Z All transitive verbs involve the notion of cause as activity, and would have to be replaced by some cumbrous periphrasis before this notion could be eliminated. Our Knowledge of the External World as a Field for Scientific Method in Philosophy 2011-08-16T02:00:44.423Z It was too cumbrous for them, they pocked up a little turf, and just disturbed the earth, and then threw the clumsy thing on the grass. Bevis The Story of a Boy 2011-08-13T02:00:28.377Z Lastly, they are both cumbrous to preserve and easily broken. Finger Prints 2011-08-07T02:00:07.827Z We invariably hid our big cumbrous fishing nets beneath them, and the stones were just as invariably true to their trust. The Confessions of a Poacher 2011-08-05T02:00:44.470Z At that time we had only the vaguest idea of what the Commune was, and none whatsoever of the new ideas of justice and equality which underlay that cumbrously ill-managed business. A Tatter of Scarlet Adventurous Episodes of the Commune in the Midi 1871 2011-08-04T02:00:19.957Z In general, the English utensils of husbandry seemed to me unnecessarily cumbrous and heavy. The Works of Daniel Webster, Volume 1 2011-07-27T02:00:32.830Z There was a little air moving, but not sufficient to make sailing pleasant in so cumbrous a craft as the Calypso. Bevis The Story of a Boy 2011-08-13T02:00:28.377Z If it is to be talked of after death, surely the urn can be as fitting a remembrance of the departed as the costly and cumbrous marble monument, with its deception and untruth. Crying for the Light, Vol. 3 [of 3] or Fifty Years Ago 2011-07-23T02:00:11.900Z But Brown's machines were cumbrous, complicated, and difficult to work, and therefore did not come into public use. Inventions in the Century 2011-07-20T02:00:14.643Z The trumpeters sounded a retreat; the cumbrous cannon were wheeled back again, and the threatening convoy took their way back to the barracks, from whence they had so lately come. The Strange Story of Rab R?by 2011-07-17T02:00:30.943Z Every little while he would remove it from his eyes—showing a dyspeptic face fringed with a thin growth of dark beard—to consult the cumbrous dictionary on his knees. Yekl A tale of the New York ghetto 2011-07-13T02:00:17.480Z An artist has a cumbrous easel, a heavy framework, a solid palette which has a distinct weight, but he paints with a tiny point of camel’s hair. Bevis The Story of a Boy 2011-08-13T02:00:28.377Z She thought with compassion of the cumbrous formalities that separated these wandering souls from their hope and trust. Only a Girl: or, A Physician for the Soul. 2011-07-13T02:00:14.230Z The carts and conveyances of the poor were cumbrous, heavy contrivances, without springs, mostly two-wheel, heavy carts. Inventions in the Century 2011-07-20T02:00:14.643Z When in the flesh he was a great admirer of mine, and in his cumbrous way tried to court me; but I never liked him, and gave him no encouragement. A Book of Ghosts 2011-07-08T02:00:19.203Z But there is scarcely anything it can accomplish which cannot readily be done on some one of these simple, old-fashioned, and far less cumbrous pieces of apparatus. How to Get Strong and How to Stay So 2011-07-01T02:00:12.520Z In shallow water—they could pole along like a punt better than row, for the raft would be cumbrous. Bevis The Story of a Boy 2011-08-13T02:00:28.377Z We also meet occasionally with passages of simple and natural beauty and eloquence, the more striking and effective from the contrast they afford to the cumbrous and ambitious rhetoric through which they are sparsely scattered. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, vol 1-98, 1850-1899 None 2011-06-27T02:01:02.870Z Wood and metals were used in unnecessarily cumbrous forms for the purpose to which they were put, in order to ensure safety, or else the strength of the parts failed where it was most needed. Inventions in the Century 2011-07-20T02:00:14.643Z The machine will go forward ponderously and cumbrously, but it will not go backward without an infinite amount of toil and trouble. The Squire's Daughter 2011-06-13T02:00:25.710Z To the soul there is no grave; the tomb cannot grasp its viewless form; Earth is but its birthplace—the cradle of its infancy— Where it drops its cumbrous wrappings for the wings of immortality. The Universe a Vast Electric Organism 2011-06-09T02:00:22.450Z Not until seventy or so do they envelop themselves in the cumbrous mantles that once were devised especially for middle age, a period of life which, after all, is not adapted to weight-carrying. A Word to Women 2011-06-08T02:00:18.457Z “The Ship of Fools” is, indeed, cumbrous, rude, and inartificial, and was not constructed on the principles which regulate our fast-sailing vessels; yet it may be prized for something more than its curiosity. Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature 2011-06-03T02:00:19.227Z The ancient heavy key creaks in the cumbrous lock, and the iron latch-ring has worn a deep groove in the solid stone. The Eulogy of Richard Jefferies 2011-05-27T02:00:19.437Z Ye cumbrous fashions, crowd not on my head! Literary Byways 2011-05-12T02:00:09.493Z But you at present must take heed, And do not grow the cumbrous weed, Either in garden or in field, Where plants with profit now do yield. Poems of James McIntyre 2011-05-11T02:00:21.477Z Though we have done away with much legal fiction and cumbrous technicality we cannot greatly boast of the simplicity of our legal procedure. The Law and the Poor 2011-05-07T02:00:30.390Z The machine is too big and too distant; its operation is slow, cumbrous, and costly. Proceedings of the Second National Conservation Congress at Saint Paul, September 5-8, 1910 2011-05-07T02:00:26.100Z With what degree of judgment the "cumbrous matter" has been removed, must be left to the public to determine. The History of Don Quixote de la Mancha 2011-05-01T02:00:10.977Z Compare such a heavy cumbrous ship as the Pearl with our vessels of the newer sort, such as the Revenge. The Golden Galleon BEING A NARRATIVE OF THE ADVENTURES OF MASTER GILBERT OGLANDER, AND OF HOW, IN THE YEAR 1591, HE FOUGHT UNDER THE GALLANT SIR 2011-04-25T02:00:10.333Z His successors endeavoured to improve on it by increasing the size of their missile and other engines, which, however, were so cumbrous that they were of little use. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 6 "Foraminifera" to "Fox, Edward" 2011-04-22T02:00:08.637Z There was the same low, old-fashioned sideboard and silk-lined chiffonnier; the same leathern couch and cumbrous easy-chair; the same picture of 'Virtue and Vice,' smiling and glaring over the high wooden mantelpiece. Heriot's Choice A Tale 2011-04-20T02:00:22.760Z In Corio's somewhat stiff and cumbrous periods we trace the effort of a foreigner to gain by study what the Tuscans owed to nature. Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature Part 1 (of 2) 2011-04-09T02:00:14.990Z Its simple cov'nant ever served its need; It learned to live without a cumbrous creed. Governor Winthrop's Return to Boston An Interview with a Great Character 2011-04-07T02:00:20.137Z He carried a long sword and a heavy, cumbrous pistol and a large knotted stick. The Golden Galleon BEING A NARRATIVE OF THE ADVENTURES OF MASTER GILBERT OGLANDER, AND OF HOW, IN THE YEAR 1591, HE FOUGHT UNDER THE GALLANT SIR 2011-04-25T02:00:10.333Z His apparatus was rather cumbrous, and the chilled iron rolls with which it was fitted consumed a large amount of power relatively to the work effected. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 5 "Fleury, Claude" to "Foraker" 2011-04-03T02:00:20.883Z The former may be compared to heavy artillery, slow, cumbrous and crushing. Leigh Hunt's Relations with Byron, Shelley and Keats 2011-04-02T02:00:11.477Z The apartment into which the young noble had been thus ushered, seemed to have been hastily fitted up with such resources of a lady's chamber as the cumbrous and incommodious fashion of the day offered. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 370, August 1846 2011-04-01T02:00:28.747Z In the grasp of the young cavalier it felt unwieldy and cumbrous. The Spanish Cavalier A Story of Seville 2011-03-31T02:00:19.850Z Above stairs was a large dining apartment, with an immense oak table, and furnished with cumbrous leathern chairs with high backs, apparently three centuries old at least. The Bible in Spain - Vol. 2 [of 2] 2011-03-27T02:00:17.093Z Notwithstanding his youth, he displayed remarkable ability as a legal draughtsman and special pleader, and had mastered the cumbrous and elaborate system of pleading then in vogue among the profession. The Canadian Portrait Gallery - Volumes 1 to 4 2011-03-23T02:00:23.527Z In the centre of the town is the principal square, a light cheerful place, not surrounded by those heavy cumbrous buildings with which the Spaniards both in ancient and modern times have encircled their plazas. The Bible in Spain Vol. 1 [of 2] 2011-03-23T02:00:19.910Z There are several wagons, too; large cumbrous vehicles, each with a team of eight mules attached. The Lost Mountain A Tale of Sonora 2011-03-23T02:00:19.250Z Upon the top of the hill, from whose foot flows the fountain, is still another ruin,—a high, cumbrous tower. With the World's Great Travellers, Volume 3 2011-03-21T02:00:11.920Z The papers in the Aberdeen Magazine were not all of the sombre cumbrous kind. A Letter on Shakspere's Authorship of The Two Noble Kinsmen and on the characteristics of Shakspere's style and the secret of his supremacy 2011-03-21T02:00:11.187Z Before his bill became law, the only system which existed was the Act under the civil code, which had been found to be both cumbrous and costly in its operation. The Canadian Portrait Gallery - Volumes 1 to 4 2011-03-23T02:00:23.527Z Immense pillars defend the causeway at intervals, producing, however, rather a cumbrous effect. The Bible in Spain Vol. 1 [of 2] 2011-03-23T02:00:19.910Z They disintegrate convention, which is often cumbrous and confused, and restore us to ourselves, to immediate perception and primordial will. Three Philosophical Poets Lucretius, Dante, and Goethe 2011-03-20T02:00:33.357Z The Purple Island, or the Isle of Man, is a poem in twelve cantos describing in cumbrous allegory the physiological structure of the human body and the mind of man. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 4 "Finland" to "Fleury, Andre" 2011-03-20T02:00:30.697Z And a name cannot, without being too cumbrous for use, give indication, by its etymology or mode of construction, of more than a very small number of these. A System of Logic: Ratiocinative and Inductive 7th Edition, Vol. II 2011-03-01T03:00:40.557Z The state umbrellas were encased in white bags, and the usual cumbrous Abyssinian robe, which effectually impedes all rapid movement, was on this occasion cast aside. The Highlands of Ethiopia 2011-02-25T03:01:07.193Z There is much out-of-the-way learning in the book, but a pompous and cumbrous ornament overlays every thing. The International Monthly, Volume 5, No. 4, April, 1852 2011-02-23T03:00:33.760Z A cumbrous and old-fashioned, but comfortable, English carriage with four fine horses stood at the gate of the Daveneys’ cottage. Jasper Lyle 2011-02-19T03:01:11.070Z Specialization and cumbrous pedantry fall into profound disfavour. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 6 "English Language" to "Epsom Salts" 2011-02-19T03:00:59.807Z The cumbrous old writing-desk, which Sir William rarely used, was not in its accustomed place, but stood on the table in the centre of the room, and the keys beside it. Sir Brook Fossbrooke, Volume II. 2011-02-18T03:00:19.343Z The forfeiture of government and the loss of the cumbrous badge go hand in hand, and many are the weary hours of attendance indispensable towards the restoration of either. The Highlands of Ethiopia 2011-02-25T03:01:07.193Z He pushed the silver and the cumbrous packet of coppers towards her. Mattie:?A Stray (Vol 1 of 3) 2011-02-17T03:00:17.787Z A huge picture of an Atlantic liner, the gift of a steamship company, leaned cumbrously against a wall. The Grandchildren of the Ghetto 2011-02-12T03:00:35.663Z It was with no little emotion that he broke the cumbrous seals. Brother Against Brother The War on the Border 2011-02-09T03:00:46.430Z Among the cases in point, one occurs in a poem entitled "Influences of Natural objects in calling forth and strengthening the Imagination in Boyhood and early Youth"—a cumbrous heading enough. The Galaxy Vol. XXIII?March, 1877.?No. 3 2011-01-31T03:00:16.193Z And more than sufficient for the sultry climate was the cumbrous attire of the foreign mercenaries. The Highlands of Ethiopia 2011-02-25T03:01:07.193Z "I—I don't know what you mean—you're mad," he muttered, and then slunk out of the shop, leaving his cumbrous change for a sovereign spread over the stationer's floor. Mattie:?A Stray (Vol 1 of 3) 2011-02-17T03:00:17.787Z The sun streamed into it obliquely through tall small-paned windows at this hour of the day; otherwise it had the air of being rather sombre, with its cumbrous dark-coloured furniture. Abington Abbey A Novel 2011-01-30T03:00:14.557Z Its principal or conductor is called a superintendent—cumbrous though the title may be—and its working force are known as teachers. Organizing and Building Up the Sunday School Modern Sunday School Manuals 2011-01-25T03:00:24.873Z Arithmetic, with the cumbrous Roman notation, included little more than the simplest practical calculations required in ordinary life and the computation of the calendar. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 10 "Echinoderma" to "Edward" 2011-01-19T03:00:19.027Z In this way the old difficulty in the case before us disappears; and the complex and cumbrous machinery of earlier commentators becomes superfluous. An Examination of the Testimony of the Four Evangelists 2011-01-19T03:00:17.237Z Most of the cumbrous restrictions of the Act of 1891 were removed, and once more the applications began to tumble in. Irish History and the Irish Question 2011-01-16T03:00:22.640Z He then indued a cumbrous back-piece to match, buckled the shoulder-straps without assistance, and girded the whole tightly together with an embroidered belt round his waist. William Shakespeare as he lived. An Historical Tale 2011-01-01T03:00:20.833Z Together they drew the cumbrous old piece of furniture from the wall and Carrados went behind. Max Carrados 2010-12-24T03:00:32.117Z The legs, too, astraddle, and trailing in the water behind, helped the onward movement, as in swimming; so that the water-horses could be put to a speed far beyond that of the cumbrous rafts. The Vee-Boers A Tale of Adventure in Southern Africa 2010-12-20T17:12:24.303Z The act substitutes the expression “holder in due course” for the somewhat cumbrous older expression “bona fide holder for value without notice.” Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Slice 7 "Bible" to "Bisectrix" 2010-12-20T17:12:05.780Z The plan of the Deipnosophistae is exceedingly cumbrous, and is badly carried out. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 7 "Arundel, Thomas" to "Athens" With the development of infantry fire the use of the last-named weapons died out, and it is largely due to this fact that “artillery” came to imply cumbrous and immobile guns of position. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 6 "Armour Plates" to "Arundel, Earls of" The snow, too, was whirling all around, in immense dense masses, and overwhelming every object whose height they surpassed in their cumbrous layers of white. Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 13 Of course these cumbrous vehicles, of no use now, would be left behind; but not their tilts. The Vee-Boers A Tale of Adventure in Southern Africa 2010-12-20T17:12:24.303Z He soon extended his researches to Egyptian, and when the cumbrous department came to be divided he was appointed to the charge of the Egyptian and Assyrian branch. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Slice 7 "Bible" to "Bisectrix" 2010-12-20T17:12:05.780Z But commonly it proves to be extremely long and cumbrous, and modifications have to be resorted to. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 7 "Arundel, Thomas" to "Athens" The system was reformed and stripped of its cumbrous fictions by an act of the year 1837. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 6 "Armour Plates" to "Arundel, Earls of" Large, cumbrous persons, with small heads and colossal feet, with vacant faces and incipient beards, stuck in its meshes and remained there forever, while their more youthful and slippery brethren wriggled through. "Pip" A Romance of Youth Notwithstanding, their progress was unsatisfactory, the cumbrous structure refusing to move at a speed of much more than a mile to the hour. The Vee-Boers A Tale of Adventure in Southern Africa 2010-12-20T17:12:24.303Z In the press, the Prince’s retainers could not use their arrows, and their cumbrous matchlocks, once discharged, could not be reloaded readily. The Great Mogul They not only refused, however, but they expressed their scorn of the man who invented such a cumbrous theory. The Popes and Science The History of the Papal Relations to Science During the Middle Ages and Down to Our Own Time The best soldiers of the time pronounced in favour of small field armies, for in the then state of communications and agriculture large forces proved in practice too cumbrous for good work. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 6 "Armour Plates" to "Arundel, Earls of" On the other hand, he is full of cumbrous repetition, he lacks precision in argument and is prone to digression, his quotations from Scripture are often inappropriate, and he is greatly influenced by Jewish exegesis. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 2 "Anjar" to "Apollo" As by magic he threw off the cumbrous mass that so long confined his mighty genius and at once became a gigantic and brilliant intellectual man. Sages and Heroes of the American Revolution In other hands it would be a cumbrous stake; to him it served as a mere wand. The Great Mogul The slow, cumbrous, unwieldy body of the Spartan confederacy was sure to suffer under the blows of its skilful, forward, and enterprising antagonist. The History and Antiquities of the Doric Race, Vol. 1 of 2 But it was not in her to do this, and she wallowed cumbrously in the waves until the enemy once more ranged close. Donalblane of Darien The thousands of valuable books, and the holdful of costly but cumbrous furniture, they contemptuously left to the mercy of wind and wave. The Wreckers of Sable Island The wonder was that the cumbrous vehicle was not overturned twenty times in the first mile. Highway Pirates or, The Secret Place at Coverthorne The bassoon is only a bass oboe rendered less cumbrous by the tube being bent sharply on itself. Springtime and Other Essays I am laying aside a life that is somewhat cumbrous for me, and going to one that, fits me like a glove. The Preliminaries And Other Stories Taking the rifle, he made off along the path, treading as softly as the cumbrous sabots would permit. The Day of Wrath A Story of 1914 What a cumbrous piece of bungling machinery is this boasted "representative government" of ours! The Fortunes Of Glencore The same effect was further aided and preserved by the cumbrous and unseemly worm fence that shot forth its stiff angles around the tract. Horse-Shoe Robinson A Tale of the Tory Ascendency With Way still at their heads, the wagon and 149its cumbrous load were safely jammed against the side of the bluff. The Auto Boys' Vacation In his very last visit to this room, he perceived a cumbrous document, of which the seal of the envelope was broken, but apparently the contents unlooked at. Roland Cashel Volume II (of II) The Empire entailed serious liabilities on its ruler without furnishing any reliable assets: only through the cumbrous machinery of the diet could Charles tap the military and financial resources of Germany. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 8 "Chariot" to "Chatelaine" It is not seldom cumbrous and awkward, usually through trying to say too much at once. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. VIII But interspersed with lines of great force and beauty are cumbrous irrelevancies, wholly superfluous details. The Vagabond in Literature No, it must be a lock of the gentleman’s hair, which could be easily enough to procure, and equally easy to preserve, though the keepsake would be somewhat cumbrous. Hair-Breadth Escapes The Adventures of Three Boys in South Africa "Leave me, Phillis," said he, at length; "I shall be late with all this cumbrous finery I am to wear." Roland Cashel Volume II (of II) If a Thlinkeet man of the Swan stock meets an Iroquois maid of the Swan stock they cannot speak to each other, and the ‘gesture-language’ is cumbrous. Custom and Myth New Edition By the beginning of the Middle Irish period a good part of the cumbrous Old Irish verb-system had become obsolete, and texts which were at all faithfully copied had to be plentifully supplied with glosses. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 5 "Cat" to "Celt" We stowed our cumbrous knapsacks with the rest of the baggage in the wagons, and then set out on our march with lighter bodies and gayer hearts. Narrative of the March of Co. A, Engineers from Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, to Fort Bridger, Utah, and Return May 6 to October 3, 1858 His coat was grimy, his ruff gray and tangled, and from his collar, drawn cruelly tight, dragged a cumbrous length of iron chain. Sigurd Our Golden Collie and Other Comrades of the Road An exact if cumbrous title for the book would be 'On the Relation of Human Laws and Customs to the Laws of Nature.' A Short History of French Literature His main object, however, like that of Brougham, was the amelioration of the law, more by the abolition of cumbrous technicalities than by the assertion of new and striking principles. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 2 "Camorra" to "Cape Colony" Such a cumbrous system was bound to fall to pieces. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 5 "Cat" to "Celt" It is a question, in this time of restraint, of formalism, where anything could be made plain, cut in a cumbrous fashion, rendered inelegant, it was done. English Costume The cumbrous contrivance greatly delayed the progress of the fleet, which advanced slowly until the Weehawken had passed the outer batteries and was close to the entrance to the inner harbor. The Greater Republic A History of the United States In one of the higher bastions stands a curious specimen of one of the earliest mitrailleuses—a cumbrous machine carrying twenty gun-barrels in two rows, which small-arm fire is flanked by two tiny cannon. From Sea to Sea Letters of Travel And yet we danced in our cumbrous company gowns made of heavy silk we were passionately fond of dancing. Women of the Teutonic Nations Woman: In all ages and in all countries Vol. 8 (of 10) She was not aware, apparently, of the old-fashioned and cumbrous appearance of these last-named articles of mental furniture. Anne Her political system was cumbrous and lacking in unity. The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 14 Such a form of government, it must be admitted, was altogether too cumbrous in its operations for efficient executive movement. History of the Reign of Philip the Second, King of Spain, Vols. 1 and 2 These volumes, which I did not obtain without difficulty, and which were too cumbrous to carry away, I have deposited in this safe place, and the time may come when they will be of value.—G. The Bramleighs of Bishop's Folly He could also see that the mule carried a somewhat cumbrous pack, and an amount of baggage rarely the accompaniment of a travelling friar. Gerald Fitzgerald The Chevalier I had to make my way through its layers as a minute blood-vessel penetrates the cumbrous leathern hide of the rhinoceros. Anne The machinery of a board is of necessity cumbrous, and the method costly in comparison. The Life of William Ewart Gladstone (Vol 2 of 3) This sort of fire-arms, from their cumbrous nature, had hitherto been used only in the defence of fortresses. History of the Reign of Philip the Second, King of Spain, Vols. 1 and 2 This cumbrous legal enactment conferred upon Thalassia a life lease and freehold in the property of her convent, as secure as the tithes of his parish are to an English incumbent. Women of Early Christianity My luggage, no cumbrous affair, had already been packed. The Bonadventure A Random Journal of an Atlantic Holiday The heads becoming cumbrous from their number, the general declared that he would be sufficiently satisfied with the instalment of ears. Punch - Volume 25 (Jul-Dec 1853) "Money was never so scarce," said Swaby, as he wiped his spectacles and unfolded one of the cumbrous parchments. The O'Donoghue Tale Of Ireland Fifty Years Ago The linch pins, axles, and in fact everything about the carts, are of wood, very massive and cumbrous. The Indian Captive A narrative of the adventures and sufferings of Matthew Brayton in his thirty-four years of captivity among the Indians of north-western America His early training on that blood-red Caribbean isle, and a later life in thicket and swamp, had served to transform the cumbrous native weapon into a thing of life at his hands. The Crimson Gardenia and Other Tales of Adventure The cumbrous chain unwound and ran down with a cloud of rust. The Bonadventure A Random Journal of an Atlantic Holiday Such appliances, being obviously more cumbrous than band conveyors, are only used in handling material of a hard and cutting nature. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 3 "Convention" to "Copyright" One large and cumbrous vehicle, loaded with all the varied "accessories" of the road, and fortified by many a precaution against the accidents of the way, stood prominent. The Daltons, Volume II (of II) Or,Three Roads In Life His unwieldy gait, his short and labored respiration, increased almost to suffocation by the ascent of the stairs and his cumbrous dress, seemed doubly absurd beside the flippant lightness of the "Ballarina." The Daltons, Volume I (of II) Or,Three Roads In Life "Come with me then," said I; "for I always carry some of my less valuable trinkets about with me, as the least cumbrous mode of taking money." Confessions Of Con Cregan An Irish Gil Blas We arrive only at incomplete and cumbrous formulas, and are well content to find for ourselves an available prescription, that may sufficiently expound the riddle of our own short lives. Henry of Ofterdingen: A Romance. Spice must be added, sauces devised, heavy and cumbrous portions rejected, great ingenuity exercised, fitly to furnish forth to-day’s delicate collation from the fragments of yesterday’s baked meats. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 377, March 1847 They were resting on their cumbrous belongings, strange groups, unkempt and half dressed. Ancestors A Novel Washington readily recognized the futility of the cumbrous regular military methods in a rough, unsettled country. The Story of Old Fort Loudon Here and there about the yard, also, stand cumbrous cribs for fodder, at which two cows can feed at once. The Hills and the Vale The process of gathering a royal army in Samoa is cumbrous and dilatory in the extreme. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 18 (of 25) The inconveniences of this cumbrous organization are apparent. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 2, No. 8, January, 1851 The commissioners thought Wren's design mean and weak, and chose the present heavy and cumbrous iron-work, which breaks up the view of the west front. Old and New London Volume I These suggested the passage of a cumbrous body on wheels, for sodden leaves were pressed into the wet earth and creepers which had barred the way had been torn and flung on the path. Banked Fires Reform was in the air; and something less cumbrous was soon felt to be necessary by the clerks who had to supply the immense quantity of written reports demanded by the First Emperor. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 2 "Chicago, University of" to "Chiton" The vestiges of ancient civilization, the germs of modern civilization, the little remains of what had been, the small beginnings of what is, were buried under a cumbrous mass of barbarism and cruelty. English Critical Essays Nineteenth Century The operation is so cumbrous as to be generally ineffective. The History of Freedom A policeman was told off to protect the house at night from rope ladders or any other less cumbrous ingenuity. Lady Anna The apparatus is too cumbrous,—you do not 204 turn to it. Household Papers and Stories There was a wonderful outburst of literary activity in the Confucian era, when it would seem that the older and more cumbrous form of Seal character was still in vogue. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 2 "Chicago, University of" to "Chiton" Mayerne's treatment was certainly of a somewhat cumbrous character, and his patients must have had an unusual and commendable amount of perseverance if they pursued it thoroughly. Chapters in the History of the Insane in the British Isles It is remarkable how entirely mistaken, also, those croaking prophets were, who formerly supposed that much addition to the old United States would make a cumbrous and impracticable political aggregate. 1931: A Glance at the Twentieth Century In Art and Literature the influence of Germany has been purely superficial, although the beautiful Russian language has often been spoiled by the influence of a cumbrous German syntax. German Problems and Personalities Bergman’s symbolism was obviously cumbrous, and the system used in 1782 by Lavoisier was equally abstruse, since the forms gave no clue as to composition; for instance water, oxygen, and nitric acid were , and . Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 1 "Châtelet" to "Chicago" I doubt our ability to maintain the old cumbrous, complicated, and expensive form of government. A Rebel War Clerk's Diary at the Confederate States Capital Controlled by no law, she seemed to have been shoved off the track upon which, in the ordinary course of nature, cause and effect, cumbrously linked together, crawl along in the slow process of experience. The German Classics, v. 20 Masterpieces of German Literature As a term of pure philosophy, if safeguarded by careful definition, it is a convenient piece of shorthand, obviating the necessity for a constant recourse to cumbrous formulas. God and Mr. Wells A Critical Examination of 'God the Invisible King' A succession of these phonograms then represents a series of sounds, or syllables, and we have a real, though somewhat primitive and cumbrous, written language. Books Before Typography A Primer of Information About the Invention of the Alphabet and the History of Book-Making up to the Invention of Movable Types Typographic Technical Series for Apprentices #49 It was one of the many curious developments of the mixed taste, at once cumbrous and bizarre, which prevailed in furniture during the Empire period in England. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 1 "Châtelet" to "Chicago" But no sooner had Mrs Aird told me this, than I felt the langour depart from me, as if a cumbrous cloak had been taken away, and I rose up a recruited and reanimated man. Ringan Gilhaize or The Covenanters The mule appeared impressed by this, and backed cumbrously into a corner, from which he regarded Horace with a mistrustful, but attentive, eye. The Brass Bottle Polemo’s speech, though cumbrous, did execution, at least the termination of it, upon minds constituted like the Grecian. Callista : a Tale of the Third Century In the rather cumbrous alphabet in use among the shades, the visitor spelled out in French: “Son nom.” The International Spy Being the Secret History of the Russo-Japanese War It is a piece of cumbrous magnificence, better assorting with the leisurely progress of other days than the notions of these progressive times. Dickens' London She was fairly lost in her furs and he in a burly overcoat, so that when in a kind of frenzy he thrust one cumbrous arm about her the insulation was complete. The Cup of Fury A Novel of Cities and Shipyards To appreciate fairly the strangely cumbrous form of his written speech, we must penetrate more deeply than may at first sight seem necessary beneath the outer rind of this literary Behemoth. Hours in a Library New Edition, with Additions. Vol. II (of 3) Hard at my feet ran down a crystall spring Which did the cumbrous pebbles hoarsly chide For standing in the way. Democritus Platonissans There are no forms, no cumbrous reality—only a vision woven of silver and violet ether, rising up from earth and floating out into infinity.... Farthest North Being the Record of a Voyage of Exploration of the Ship 'Fram' 1893-1896 Vol. I His apparatus was not cumbrous, and was gaudy with brightly polished copper, and a headlight that flared like that of a modern locomotive. Dickens' London But of the Book as first presented, it was possible to say that in no degree was it more cumbrous than that to which the people were already accustomed. A Short History of the Book of Common Prayer He did indeed demonstrate mathematically that no lifting power existed that would support the cumbrous steam-engine of that date, and tried to solve this dilemma by devising a gas engine, and an explosive engine. Aircraft and Submarines The Story of the Invention, Development, and Present-Day Uses of War's Newest Weapons The other was red with a similar border, so stiff and cumbrous that it did not seem made to walk upon. Rugs: Oriental and Occidental, Antique & Modern A Handbook for Ready Reference The English volunteers being the next to the Prince’s regiment of Guards, followed close upon the main body of the army, and behind them trailed the long, cumbrous baggage train. Graham of Claverhouse The early fathers of Christianity not only believed in them, but wrote cumbrous folios upon their nature and attributes. Graham's Magazine Vol XXXIII No. 2 August 1848 She never dropped a case of hers into that cumbrous relief machine and then let it slip out of her sight. The Harbor A rather cumbrous machine—the invention on which Henry Smitz had been working—stood as the murdered man had left it, all its levers, wheels, arms, and cogs intact. Philo Gubb, Correspondence-School Detective I have here literally translated the botanical name of the Virginia creeper—an appellation too cumbrous for verse. Poetical Works of William Cullen Bryant Household Edition Their pack mules were so cumbrously loaded as to suggest country wagons piled with hay. A Waif of the Mountains Some of these terraces show fine design, though in the solid, cumbrous style of the Georgian period. Hampstead and Marylebone The Fascination of London It is generally demanded that the law shall be less cumbrous and more summary. Prairie Farmer, Vol. 56: No. 4, January 26, 1884 A Weekly Journal for the Farm, Orchard and Fireside In short, for many reasons Miss Townshend's book provides a far brisker entertainment than its cumbrous title would indicate. Punch, Or The London Charivari, Vol 150, February 9, 1916 In physics, when this is attained, the memory disburthens itself of its cumbrous catalogues of particulars, and carries centuries of observation in a single formula. Nature I could observe that he walked at an even deliberate pace; and as he carried none of the cumbrous machinery distinctive of his craft, his step was steady and unimpeded. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 350, December 1844 In those far regions men are not particular how or what they eat; of necessity they abandon the refinements of civilisation as needless and cumbrous. Murder Point A Tale of Keewatin I brushed the snow from his shoulders and hair, and assisted his long neck from its cumbrous stock, and pinning on the crown-piece, the hat was quite wearable again. Graham's Magazine Vol XXXII No. 6 June 1848 In this hallway stands an iron chest to hold the family silver, the157 cumbrous old lock having fourteen tumblers. The Colonial Architecture of Philadelphia The two men made their advance as uncomfortable as possible, but they could do no accurate shooting at such difficult targets as crawling men, from within the cramped interiors of their cumbrous suits. The Affair of the Brains We were invited to inspect Hogarth's painting-room—a mere loft, of most limited dimensions, over the stable, which the imagination could easily furnish with the necessary easel, or still less cumbrous graver's implements. The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 2, May, 1851 Farewell those lips Of sapphire tincture, gums of crocus die Freed from th’ungrateful load of cumbrous teeth. Ebrietatis Encomium or, the Praise of Drunkenness The car was strongly built and cumbrous in itself, and the freight it carried was heavy, to say nothing of our additional weight. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 89, May, 1875 The ribs of a big uncouth Dutch boat, square, cumbrous, shell-fretted, and tilted up on the beach, would probably have bulked more in Lamb's narrative than the modern steam-trawlers that abound in these waters. Literary Tours in The Highlands and Islands of Scotland The natives attacked them with great ferocity, circling around the cumbrous brigantines, discharging upon them showers of arrows, and withdrawing at their pleasure. Ferdinand De Soto, The Discoverer of the Mississippi American Pioneers and Patriots Such indications of a westerly gale were not encouraging to those cumbrous vessels, with the treacherous quicksands of Flanders under their lee. The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. X (of X) - America - II, Index The cumbrous sack was hoisted into the cab. Ghetto Comedies That system, however, was vague and cumbrous, and it was impracticable to introduce it into the new province, which required far more rough and ready methods. The Life of Sir James Fitzjames Stephen, Bart., K.C.S.I. A Judge of the High Court of Justice Among much tedious rhetoric and cumbrous mythology there is enough imagination and pathos to make the poem interesting and even charming.’—Mackail. Helps to Latin Translation at Sight I stood indeed as little chance among them as a cumbrous whale attacked on all sides by a legion of sword-fish. Typee It took him half the morning, with his feeble, languid motions, and his cumbrous old scissors, to trim up his diminished darlings. The Grey Woman and other Tales As a description of a planet's motion it is not incorrect, though it is geometrically cumbrous. Pioneers of Science People seem to begin by making the most cumbrous and unreasonable hypotheses possible, and slowly and reluctantly wriggling out of them under actual compulsion. The Life of Sir James Fitzjames Stephen, Bart., K.C.S.I. A Judge of the High Court of Justice Things would happen to her, Allerton surmised, beyond anything she could experience in his cumbrous and antiquated house. The Dust Flower The substitution of the inking roller, instead of the cumbrous and inconvenient old balls, has much eased the labours of the pressman and facilitated the regularity of colour. Bibliomania; or Book-Madness A Bibliographical Romance Mercy Warren was a satirist quite in the strain of Juvenal, but in cumbrous, artificial fashion. The Wit of Women Fourth Edition Following them was a State Coach, a huge, cumbrous vehicle with unglazed windows; it seemed to be of pure gold, and was drawn by sixteen milk-white horses in blue trappings. In Brief Authority He denounces the cumbrous and perplexed state of the law in general so energetically, that the arguments have to be stated as those of certain reformers with whom the paper does not openly identify itself. The Life of Sir James Fitzjames Stephen, Bart., K.C.S.I. A Judge of the High Court of Justice At length the cumbrous helmet was lifted off and the face of the diver was revealed. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, October 28, 1914 Surely then the sight of a cumbrous ferry-boat beating down on an unwonted journey to the heads would draw their eyes and fill their speculations. Hurricane Island But the growing complexity and size of the mule made it too cumbrous for women and children, and spinning for a while became a male occupation in England. The Evolution of Modern Capitalism A Study of Machine Production The steel tubes in which the hydrogen was compressed were cumbrous and heavy to transport. The War in the Air; Vol. 1 The Part played in the Great War by the Royal Air Force This is the comment upon a passage where he has twisted his thoughts into a cumbrous and perfectly needless syllogism. The Life of Sir James Fitzjames Stephen, Bart., K.C.S.I. A Judge of the High Court of Justice The cumbrous old wooden loom is still doing a certain amount of work in nearly every country neighbourhood, and it is capable of a greatly enlarged and much more profitable practice. How to make rugs Then came Cromwell's own carriage, drawn by four strong black horses;—they had need of strength, dragging, as they did, a weight of plated iron, of which the cumbrous machine was composed. The Buccaneer A Tale Was the old Roman less a man in his cumbrous toga, than Washington in his tights? History of Woman Suffrage, Volume I Wireless telegraphy, which was destined to provide the solution of this problem, was then at an early stage of its development, and the apparatus was too cumbrous and heavy to be carried on the machines. The War in the Air; Vol. 1 The Part played in the Great War by the Royal Air Force With that requirement in view, the designer of such figures has but a limited choice of subject, since there are few living creatures whose forms possess dignity without being cumbrous. Handbook of The New York Public Library And a name can not, without being too cumbrous for use, give indication, by its etymology or mode of construction, of more than a very small number of these. A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive But it is certainly cumbrous for a title-page, and its owner—a modest man with a sense of humour—may perhaps have thought that it might be rather more ridiculous than sublime there. A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century Their writings, for some presumed on authorship, are quaint and cumbrous; but in those days, when few men published books, it required marked courage for women to appear in print at all. History of Woman Suffrage, Volume I That would be too cumbrous a method of writing history. The War in the Air; Vol. 1 The Part played in the Great War by the Royal Air Force “K.,” said I, as we removed our cumbrous headgear, “about how much do you suppose these things weigh?” Great Britain at War It was the last Diet held under the system of four Estates, sitting in separate houses, and the last remnant of this time-honoured, venerable, but certainly somewhat cumbrous Swedish system of representation disappeared. Through Finland in Carts After a great deal of labour, the cumbrous machine was got upon the road. Lives of the Engineers The Locomotive. George and Robert Stephenson The attack upon the 'Anarchical Fallacies' must be taken with the Book of Fallacies, and the Book of Fallacies is a sustained and vigorous, though a curiously cumbrous, assault upon the Conservative arguments. The English Utilitarians, Volume I. In the cumbrous continental fashion he was working up to the point of a proposal, and something seemed to herald his future success. The Twelfth Hour This results in a heavy and cumbrous style of furniture even in the best farmsteads. The Toilers of the Field Brunswick, delaying his cumbrous march for ten days, while Breteuil organised a new administration at Verdun, gave time for the French to strengthen their position. Lectures on the French Revolution But things moved slowly and cumbrously at this first assembling of the new government. The Critical Period of American History We may complain that there are too many words, and that the sentences are cumbrous; but the substance is always to the point. The English Utilitarians, Volume I. It seemed hardly possible to push telescopic research farther with instruments of this cumbrous type. The Story of the Heavens The labourer's dinner is taken at half-past six to seven in the evening, after he has got home, unlaced his heavy and cumbrous boots, combed his hair, and washed himself. The Toilers of the Field Both hands rested on the polished oak, and clutched in her small, wrinkled hands was a heavy, cumbrous revolver, pointed directly at the door. Shoe-Bar Stratton The functions of the new institution are sufficiently indicated by its cumbrous Parliamentary title, "The Department of Agriculture and other Industries and for Technical Instruction for Ireland." The Rural Life Problem of the United States Notes of an Irish Observer It is all out of Holbein's way; foreign to his nature, useless at the best, probably cumbrous. Ariadne Florentina Six Lectures on Wood and Metal Engraving There the strife was continued, when suddenly the cry of “Fire” arose, and the flames, which had caught a bed in the apartment, spread rapidly to the cumbrous and time-worn woodwork that supported the ceiling. Wagner, the Wehr-Wolf A cumbrous piece of furniture takes up almost half of one side—not known in modern manufactories. The Toilers of the Field He implied that this was a cumbrous machinery which had no relation to reality, and could define nothing. The Wonder The school system, instead of taking the usual form of a cumbrous machine, is a delicate mechanism adjusted to the wants of Cincinnati children. The New Education A Review of Progressive Educational Movements of the Day (1915) His cumbrous ships also were too much crowded with men, being fitter for transport than for action; the fighters were impeded by the press, and every effective shot from the enemy's guns found many victims. The Cornwall Coast The batteau was too cumbrous for use toward the head waters of the Missouri, and it was to be sent back to St. Louis. Lewis and Clark Meriwether Lewis and William Clark Before superstition ventured to raise its cumbrous monument on the heights of Olivet, may we not think of the scene of the Ascension, rather in connexion with three living Temples? Memories of Bethany The silver bars from Pasco are sent to Lima without any military guard, for they are suffered to pass unmolested, as the robbers find them heavy and cumbrous, and they cannot easily dispose of them. Travels in Peru, on the Coast, in the Sierra, Across the Cordilleras and the Andes, into the Primeval Forests The bill contained many other provisions designed to amend the practice of registration, the voting power of non-resident electors, and the cumbrously expensive machinery of elections. The Political History of England - Vol XI From Addington's Administration to the close of William IV.'s Reign (1801-1837) Seeing this disposition on the part of the enemy, Colonel Clive ordered some shot to be thrown among their cumbrous artillery trains. Athelstane Ford Thus Uncle Ebeneezer’s cumbrous bequest might be quickly transformed into comfort. At the Sign of the Jack O'Lantern However, this Saxon name, “the Hoar rock in the Wood” sounds decidedly like a translation, and is far too long and cumbrous for a current name. Chips From A German Workshop. Vol. III. Essays on Literature, Biography, and Antiquities Engineers do not need to be told that this cumbrous arrangement could not successfully replace the crank, even if such a replacement were desirable. Peter Cooper The Riverside Biographical Series, Number 4 We return to the Rue Bonaparte and faring still S. reach the huge fabric of St. Sulpice with its massive, gloomy towers and pretentious fa�ade of cumbrous splendour. The Story of Paris So gentle reader do not grin At sight of cumbrous crinoline. A Humorous History of England Images and sacred vessels of solid gold, in gold cloth, cumbrous with pearls and precious stones, attested the rank, the magnificence, and devotion of the occupants. The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 09 The tribunals complained of this cumbrous mode of administration, and declared that it hindered them from properly interrogating the accused. The Inquisition A Critical and Historical Study of the Coercive Power of the Church A well-known merchant of Baltimore, returning from England, described with enthusiasm the coal trains, drawn by the cumbrous ante-Stephenson engines, which he had seen there. Peter Cooper The Riverside Biographical Series, Number 4 These, too, were gorgeous in their brocades and taffetas, luxuriantly displayed over cumbrous hoops, tower-built hats, adorned with tall feathers, high wooden heels and fine satin petticoats. The Loyalist A Story of the American Revolution In advance of the troops came the armoured train, a pachydermatous monster which moved cumbrously in front of the column, and was saluted by the smoking wrath of big guns as soon as it appeared. South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. 2 (of 6) From the Commencement of the War to the Battle of Colenso, 15th Dec. 1899 Many years ago a beloved friend, returning from the East by the overland route, made the journey from Suez to Cairo in the cumbrous diligence then in use. Union And Communion or Thoughts on the Song of Solomon Mr. Charlecote had for many years been always the first parishioner to walk slowly up the matted aisle, and kneel beside the wall, under the cumbrous old tables of Commandments. Hopes and Fears or, scenes from the life of a spinster It is largely composed of cotton, is heavy and cumbrous in design, and after washing becomes thick and clumsy. Chats on Old Lace and Needlework Next came the Deluge Engine Company, No. 1, who ran a very cumbrous Hunneman tub, made in Boston, afterwards securing a Merryweather steam engine from England. Some Reminiscences of old Victoria I have here literally translated the botanical name of the Virginia creeper,—an appellation too cumbrous for verse. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 87, January, 1865 From the cumbrous machinery adopted by Copernicus, Kepler passed, at one step, to an elliptical orbit, with the sun in one of its foci, and from that moment astronomy became a demonstrative science. The Martyrs of Science, or, The lives of Galileo, Tycho Brahe, and Kepler Soon the party was once more comfortably settled and the cumbrous vehicle, after another violent lurch, was once more on its way. The Bronze Eagle A Story of the Hundred Days He smiled at his wife with cumbrous gallantry. Prescott of Saskatchewan William conceived the design of drawing this cumbrous and unmanageable body into an ambuscade. William the Conqueror Makers of History Their commercial inutility and political mischievousness had been so 'unanimously demonstrated,' that the French empire must soon be delivered from 'this cumbrous and destructive appendage.' The English Utilitarians, Volume II (of 3) James Mill That a country which makes a constant boast of its practical intelligence should delight in long, flat, cumbrous collections of syllables, such as "locate," "operate," "antagonize," "transportation," "commutation," and "proposition," is an irony of civilisation. American Sketches 1908 The shapes, both of men and animals, were awkward, cumbrous, and unnatural; every part was out of proportion, and the most solemn scenes acquired a ludicrous grotesqueness. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 62, No. 384, October 1847 One or two of these at the east end are very cumbrous, and many are heavily decorated, but none are worthy of note for any intrinsic beauty they possess. The Strand District The Fascination of London The furniture was cumbrous, and the fact that the ugly chairs were rosewood, and their cushions brocade, made them neither beautiful nor comfortable. Peggy The family room, with its two cumbrous bedsteads built against the wall, and indescribably dirty beds, was given up to us, the family betaking themselves to the stable. Northern Travel Summer and Winter Pictures of Sweden, Denmark and Lapland Mounted high upon their cumbrous carriages, with little pyramids of round iron balls that would never have any other use than that of ornament lying beside them, they made famous playthings. Bert Lloyd's Boyhood A Story from Nova Scotia All are ordered to put on our life belts, and even as we lie here many are going about with these cumbrous things on, but most are content to carry them under their arms. The Incomparable 29th and the "River Clyde" The drive was a long one in point of time, for not only were the carriages more cumbrous and heavy in those days, but the road continued ascending nearly the whole way. The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 1, April, 1851 As Stover completed the transfer of the last trunk-checks the stage for Lawrenceville plodded cumbrously up, and from the box Jimmy hailed him. The Varmint Among all this confusion, space was scarcely left, in the small chamber of the artist, for the pallet-bed and cumbrous press that formed his only furniture. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 347, September, 1844 The ear, too, is cumbrously ornamented with showy pendents, and the tuft of hair on the crown of the head is interwoven with feathers, the wings of birds, shells, and many fantastic ornaments. The Conquest of Canada (Vol. 1 of 2) After attempts on a considerable number of lines, and extending over a period of ten years, this service has been found inefficient, cumbrous, and more costly, and has been entirely abandoned. Ocean Steam Navigation and the Ocean Post It may seem to us indeed a somewhat cumbrous mode of sending a letter; but it had the advantage of being solid and less likely to be injured or destroyed than other writing materials. Babylonians and Assyrians, Life and Customs The great painter was destitute of literary style; his sentences are cumbrous and confused; his pages grow wearisome by wordy repetition. Overbeck First of all, we must divest you of this cumbrous frock.’ The Romany Rye A Sequel to 'Lavengro' A federation is cumbrous, and inferior to a legislative union, such as that of the British Isles. The Tribune of Nova Scotia A Chronicle of Joseph Howe The apparatus is too cumbrous,—you do not turn to it. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 85, November, 1864 The anchors were curious contrivances, made of some hard wood, very large and cumbrous, the flukes only being tipped with iron. The Three Midshipmen The sight of the flatboat assured me that it was not safe to run in the night, at least during high water, when the current was bearing off houses, vessels, and other cumbrous things. Up the River or, Yachting on the Mississippi Judged by later knowledge, this first machine would be considered cumbrous and defective in the extreme; but judged by the light of antecedent events, it marked a great step forward. Fragments of science, V. 1-2 The palankeen and dolie of the plains are by far too heavy and cumbrous for the hills. Life and Work in Benares and Kumaon, 1839-1877 To the one who charges, or is supposed to charge,—for the horse seemed to me mainly responsible,—the details are somewhat cumbrous. The Creed of the Old South 1865-1915 O Moon! far-spooming Ocean bows to thee,70 And Tellus feels his forehead's cumbrous load. Endymion A Poetic Romance The men flew to their posts; and whilst the cumbrous screw was descending slowly into the water, the stokers had roused the smouldering embers into life. Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 461 Volume 18, New Series, October 30, 1852 His career was almost wrecked at the outset by an unfortunate accident which so impaired his sight that he was unable to read or to write except with the assistance of a cumbrous machine. American Men of Mind He will be amazed at his own earlier readiness to resort to such a cumbrous and complicated system when a smaller transition would have ushered him into his kingdom. Mushrooms on the Moor I think they love me—in a way— As one does the old clock on the stair,— Any curious, cumbrous affair That one's used to having about, And would feel rather lonely without. The Book of Humorous Verse My soul is sailing through the sea, But the Past is heavy and hindereth me, The Past hath crusted cumbrous shells That hold the flesh of cold sea-mells About my soul. The Life Radiant Schools and colleges are cumbrous makeshifts, often forcing truth on pupils out of season, and thus making lessons grievous. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great, Volume 7 Little Journeys to the Homes of Eminent Orators The English name of this bird is very cumbrous. Birds of the Indian Hills At present the cumbrous stone and the slow-moving flat-bed press are being supplanted by the light and pliable aluminum plates and the fast-moving rotary presses. The Building of a Book A Series of Practical Articles Written by Experts in the Various Departments of Book Making and Distributing Their music was a cumbrous and complicated machinery, and the others were exercises of wit and pleasure and superstition. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 107, September, 1866 Its "cumbrous shells" cling like dead weights around man, and keep him from the larger, freer life. The Life Radiant Above all spread his neckcloth, spotless, enveloping, cumbrous, reverence-compelling, a cravat worthy of a Moderator. The Dew of Their Youth The quick emphatic sentences he substituted for the cumbrous periods of the day, his rapid argument, his vivacious and caustic allusions, his passionate appeals, his fearless invective, struck a new note in English eloquence. History of the English People, Volume V Puritan England, 1603-1660 Years pass on and you find that your movements are stiff and cumbrous,—that you can with difficulty climb a tree, as at fourteen. In Tune with the Infinite or, Fullness of Peace, Power, and Plenty It seemed also to know its danger, and flew along over the ground at a rapid rate; but still the cumbrous monster came as fast, trumpeting and shrieking with rage. In the Wilds of Africa The Present seeks to throw off these "cumbrous shells." The Life Radiant At the same time the cumbrous forecastles and aftercastles, which must have been equally inconvenient both in action and in a sea way, were removed. How Britannia Came to Rule the Waves Updated to 1900 If there be indeed A shore where Mind survives, 'twill be as Mind All unincorporate: or if there flits A shadow of this cumbrous clog of clay. The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 5 Poetry They poured down into the city, and fired from the streets; they dodged behind the buildings on the ramparts, and thence took aim with their cumbrous matchlocks. Our Soldiers Gallant Deeds of the British Army during Victoria's Reign The gold is buried in solid rock, and requires heavy crushing-mills and cumbrous machinery, which must be built and transported at immense expense by capitalists. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 106, August, 1866 Mr. Asquith, as he thundered in carefully-polished phrases against the "cumbrous, costly, unworkable scheme," earned many cheers from his followers, and the even greater tribute of interruptions from his opponents. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, 1920-04-07 These features greatly detracted from their seaworthiness, and made them unwieldy, cumbrous craft. How Britannia Came to Rule the Waves Updated to 1900 But it was also the irresistible intellectual and aesthetic need of the good taste, the harmony, the clear and exact expression of the Ancients, the dislike of what was cumbrous and involved. Erasmus and the Age of Reformation The old-fashioned method of expressing numerals by letters, instead of figures, is too cumbrous and time-consuming to be tolerated. A Book for All Readers An Aid to the Collection, Use, and Preservation of Books and the Formation of Public and Private Libraries I mounted, the others sprang to their cumbrous saddles, and at a word from the guide we set off. At the Point of the Sword We are making four versts an hour in spite of the hills and the cumbrous boots. The History of the American Expedition Fighting the Bolsheviki Campaigning in North Russia 1918-1919 Hampered by the shadowy boughs and his cumbrous spoil, Euryalus in his fright misses the line of way. The Aeneid of Virgil Sometimes the translator settled vexed questions by using marginal glosses, a method which might make for accuracy but was liable to become cumbrous and confusing. Early Theories of Translation On the gun-deck lay great piles of cumbrous cables, from the coiling of which the men had been summoned by the call to quarters. The Naval History of the United States Volume 1 Is it surviving physical excellence which reveals itself in this way, or is it a cumbrous atavistic relic like the appendix which the doctors remove? Personality in Literature The buildings represent utility, means fairly adapted to ends, but with no cumbrous decoration or ponderous display. Bulgaria The agnostic was no less certain that morality, which had outgrown the cumbrous garments manufactured by theology, would get on equally well in the handy raiment provided by science. Morality as a Religion An exposition of some first principles Throwing off the cumbrous robes of royalty, and descending from his car, he sprang upon his steed Orelia, grasped his lance and buckler, and endeavored to rally his retreating troops. The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, May 1844 Volume 23, Number 5 The other squadron was doing the same thing outside the straits, and the Spanish fleet was both too small in number and too cumbrous in build to attack them successfully. The Story of the Barbary Corsairs Such a system would be cumbrous, and altogether impracticable. The Story of the Upper Canada Rebellion But this cumbrous fiction was discarded after a couple of numbers. Pickwickian Manners and Customs Everything was done cumbrously, with an incredible amount of toil and consideration, and without any noticeable results. The Daughters of Danaus Besides, the Knights of Labor organization appears to be too unwieldy and cumbrous to be long successful, and internal dissension seems to have already brought it near its end. Monopolies and the People How ridiculous now looked their cumbrous preparations—all these soldiers, the swords and staves, the torches and lanterns, now burning pale in the clear moonlight. The Trial and Death of Jesus Christ A Devotional History of our Lord's Passion Notwithstanding their great size, the extreme lightness of their materials prevents them being cumbrous; and, after a little practice, a traveller forgets that he has them on, if the weather be good for such walking. Hudson Bay Their armour was easily donned, and not very cumbrous. The Norsemen in the West The money current in the interior of Africa is rather cumbrous, being neither more nor less than goods. Black Ivory It was not until many grievous disappointments and sad accidents had befallen him, that he unwillingly gave up wings in despair, and set to work to accomplish his ends by more cumbrous and complex machinery. Up in the Clouds Balloon Voyages Warfare in those regions was not the cumbrous and slow affair that it is in civilised places. Twice Bought While Leetle Cub was engaged in erecting this cumbrous machine, a young alligator, about a foot long, crawled out from under some leaves on the bank close to him. The Rover of the Andes A Tale of Adventure on South America He, like the others, had been tried at an old fire-escape which stood in a corner of the yard, and which was unusually large and cumbrous. Life in the Red Brigade London Fire Brigade The drum, at any rate, from its martial voice and notable physiological effect—nay, even from its cumbrous and comical shape,—stands alone among the instruments of noise. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 1 (of 25) The breed of all farm animals was small, carts were few and cumbrous, the harvesting of grain was done with a sickle, and the mowing of grass with a short, straight scythe. An Introduction to the Industrial and Social History of England The church is undoubtedly cumbrous, but has the merit of originality. Westminster The Fascination of London Surely it is not the weapon which should be worn by a secretary, Edward: it is too large, and cumbrous, and out of character.” The Children of the New Forest I at once set to work to gain the good opinion of the ladies, and for this object divided my somewhat cumbrous neckcloth among them, while I doctored them and their children on every opportunity. Mark Seaworth Everything valuable had, however, been carried away, the more cumbrous articles alone remaining. Salt Water The Sea Life and Adventures of Neil D'Arcy the Midshipman He played well what was natural to him: the gallant easy Gentleman—I thought his Charles Surface rather cumbrous: but he was no longer young. Letters of Edward FitzGerald to Fanny Kemble (1871-1883) It is a result of the youthfulness of our civilization, that as yet it is cumbrous and unwieldy. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 102, April, 1866 Then he seemed to see it walk in its heavy, cumbrous way slowly off, with its bright golden eyes glistening, till it sat down in a hollow, and watched him go. Quicksilver The Boy With No Skid To His Wheel Nearly twenty years after the poet's death, a huge, cumbrous, unsightly mausoleum was, by public subscription, erected at a little distance from his original resting-place. Robert Burns Not it,” said the old man, walking slowly round the cumbrous construction. King o' the Beach A Tropic Tale It consisted of a number of gentlemen on horseback, preceding one of the large cumbrous coaches then in common use, in which sat two ladies and a little girl. The Gold that Glitters The Mistakes of Jenny Lavender "The book, which contains a number of useful coloured diagrams, should prove invaluable to the student, and its handy form will enable it to become a companion more than some cumbrous work." The Dyeing of Cotton Fabrics A Practical Handbook for the Dyer and Student It is true that the tail feathers in many birds appear to be entirely,—even cumbrously, decorative; as in the peacock, and birds of paradise. Love's Meinie Three Lectures on Greek and English Birds Dictionary useful but ..." he flipped pages dexterously, "extremely cumbrous. Skylark Three It had been his original intention to use an electric rifle, but those he was shown were too cumbrous for use in the streets. Better Dead It was cumbrous, but flexible in some small degree. Fort Amity Looking through this tube he could get his level almost as accurately as with an engineer's instrument, though of course it was more cumbrous to use. Round About a Great Estate At first I was told there were only two—a cumbrous, Robinson Crusoe sort of affair, kept in the kitchen and used by the servant, and a smaller one, belonging to Benson's daughter. The Shrieking Pit In North America, cannon were generally too cumbrous for Indian fighting. Artillery Through the Ages A Short Illustrated History of Cannon, Emphasizing Types Used in America While the slow and toilsome course of this cumbrous column was proceeding, the troops were obliged to remain in the rear and fight the battles of Savage Station and White Oak Swamp for its protection. Continental Monthly , Vol. 6, No. 1, July, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy. I give here short notes on a few of the more interesting phrases and words which appear in the present volume, the explanations being too cumbrous for footnotes. Ballads of Romance and Chivalry Popular Ballads of the Olden Times - First Series The art of novel-writing, like the art of cooking pigs in Lamb's most philosophical as well as humorous apologue, first appeared in its most cumbrous shape. Hours in a Library, Volume I. (of III.) The latter, a cumbrous article of furniture, stood between the bed and the wall, against the side nearest to Mr. Glenthorpe's room. The Shrieking Pit Being cumbrous and inefficient, they played little part in battle, but were quite useful in a siege. Artillery Through the Ages A Short Illustrated History of Cannon, Emphasizing Types Used in America The cumbrous details, too, of sixty centuries piled upon one mind would crush it, unless human nature were a very different thing from that which we now behold. Continental Monthly , Vol. 6, No. 1, July, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy. Yet learning need not be so cumbrously carried after all! Joyous Gard But it must also be said that, considering the cumbrous nature of the process, the spirit with which it is applied is wonderful. Hours in a Library, Volume I. (of III.) If there is anything in this story that can affect the imagination, it is there unimpaired by anything foreign or cumbrous. Epic and Romance Essays on Medieval Literature The casting of trunnions on the gun made elevation and transportation easier, and the cumbrous beds of the early days gave way to crude artillery carriages with trails and wheels. Artillery Through the Ages A Short Illustrated History of Cannon, Emphasizing Types Used in America His style was formal, cumbrous, extremely verbose, without sparkle and without fire. Historical and Political Essays Of course our usual weapon, the long Colt 45° six-shooter could not be so used, being too cumbrous. Ranching, Sport and Travel I was surprised to see these little animals running away with our cumbrous machine, at the rate of six or seven miles an hour. The Stranger in France or, a Tour from Devonshire to Paris Illustrated by Engravings in Aqua Tint of Sketches Taken on the Spot. The old Frenchman's manner, indeed, aroused in me that which I must be allowed to call my conscience—a cumbrous machine, I admit, hard to set going and soon running down. Dross One objection to this was that the steam-engine was a cumbrous bit of apparatus to carry about with him to operations; and Lister all his life loved simplicity in his methods. Victorian Worthies Sixteen Biographies The Captain was delighted with the present and willingly added the extra five pounds weight to his cumbrous and heavy burdens. The Petticoat Commando Boer Women in Secret Service It was effective but an expensive and cumbrous method. Ranching, Sport and Travel The oldest rings known were very large and cumbrous, and they were adorned with stones, sometimes flattened to make seals on wax or clay. Chatterbox, 1905. In binding himself by such unsparing oaths to recognize and admit all the outward truth of society, he has, indeed, grappled with the whole problem, but also made its solution a little cumbrous and incomplete. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 96, October 1865 The Conservatoire des Arts, for instance, is full of beautiful and ingenious ploughs; while France is tilled with heavy, costly, and cumbrous implements of this nature. Recollections of Europe This is not so cumbrous as a periwig we have noticed. At the Sign of the Barber's Pole Studies In Hirsute History The chivalry of Spain was as enthusiastic in its admiration of Drake's feat of arms as it was disgusted at the cumbrous organization which condemned it to inactivity. The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 10 As a painter Sir Godfrey Kneller showed considerable talent in drawing, and a certain cumbrous dignity of design, but he had much more industry of a certain kind than artistic feeling or taste. The Old Masters and Their Pictures For the Use of Schools and Learners in Art The colonies were more cumbrous, and opinion when expressed was necessarily representative. Reminiscences of Sixty Years in Public Affairs, Vol. 1 Across both transepts, in the beginning of the century, there stood cumbrous two-storeyed structures containing pews not unlike boxes at a theatre, as shown in a drawing here reproduced. Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Norwich A Description of Its Fabric and A Brief History of the Episcopal See Sir Charles Wheatstone discovered its principle and applied it as early as 1838 to the construction of a cumbrous but effective instrument, in which the binocular pictures were made to combine by means of mirrors. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria" The ordinary sized volumes are preferred, for most purposes, to the cumbrous tomes of large folio editions. The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, February 1844 Volume 23, Number 2 Their stage management is perfect, and the cumbrous methods of effete civilizations might well take note of the speed, thoroughness, and efficiency with which a change of government is effected. The Stowaway Girl I have scanned the roll of teachers, Have noted the Aarons and Hurs Who have stayed education's Moses, And removed the cumbrous bars That environed its anxious spirit, And bowed down its life with cares. Our Profession and Other Poems The cumbrous stalls were also removed, and in part refixed in the nave. Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Norwich A Description of Its Fabric and A Brief History of the Episcopal See The only cumbrous thing about it is its title. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 159, October 13, 1920 They are of upright habit, and of a simple and definite outline, which throws into sharp relief the cumbrous and obscure cuneiform system of Babylonia. The Sea-Kings of Crete There was a cumbrous mantel in his chamber, funereal with griffins, and there were portraits with horribly profound eyes. Bohemian Days Three American Tales But none of them rowed less than twelve or fourteen paddles, and so cumbrous a boat as this would be overtaken in a very short time, should it be seen making out from shore. Under Drake's Flag A Tale of the Spanish Main Being not cumbrous for transport, it is of invaluable service to settlers and farmers in far remote districts. Scientific American, Volume XXIV., No. 12, March 18, 1871 A Weekly Journal of Practical Information, Art, Science, Mechanics, Chemistry, and Manufactures. And yet there are those who say that the system of money exchange in China is both cumbrous and exasperating. An Australian in China Being the Narrative of a Quiet Journey Across China to Burma Certain cumbrous machinery heretofore used in social and political action, now stands in the way of free and efficient efforts to reach the best results. The Continental Monthly, Vol III, Issue VI, June, 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy Being isolated, it had escaped the fire; as maybe it had proved too cumbrous for removal. Foe-Farrell Along the avenue I pass Huge piles of wood and stone, And glance at each amorphous mass, Whose cumbrous weight has crushed the grass, With half resentful groan. Poems Vol. IV In short, we found ourselves all drawn into the operations of a vast, cumbrous, slow-moving machine, with a great many more cogs than drivers, through which no regiment or any other body could pass rapidly. The Continental Monthly, Vol. III, No. V, May, 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy The cumbrous machine gave a leap forward, like a scared greyhound, as Ralph jerked the throttle open. The Border Boys Across the Frontier Silvery rays of electric light, reflected here and there upon some small spots of water, brought up luminous sparkles in the long wake of our cumbrous bark. A Journey to the Centre of the Earth And he remained on guard outside the stable while Paul went in, to reappear presently with a large and cumbrous burden—a sack bulging with the spoil of his little raid. The Belgians to the Front Leviathans but heave their cumbrous mail, It makes a tide, and wind-bound navies sail. The Poetical Works of Edward Young, Volume 2 And if more pleasing, why cling to the effete and cumbrous tyrannies of a soulless classicism? The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 4, April, 1864 The horsemen, clad in cumbrous armour, charged, the brushwood gave way, and most of them sank into the water. Bruges and West Flanders He steeped himself in the cumbrous learning of those writers of the Renaissance in whom congested Latin is found tottering into colloquial French. Some Diversions of a Man of Letters The use of such cumbrous adornments is confined to festal occasions except in the case of unmarried maidens, who nearly always wear them. The Manóbos of Mindanáo Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume XXIII, First Memoir I would not coin silver money, because the low intrinsic value of such currency would make it a cumbrous one. The President A novel The shadowy boughs, the cumbrous spoils delay Euryalus, and fear mistakes the way. The Æneid of Virgil Translated into English Verse by E. Fairfax Taylor But this procedure has some disadvantages: it is often cumbrous; and it may distract the reader's attention from the point to be explained by exciting his interest in the special fact of the illustration. Logic Deductive and Inductive Gently he raised her, and leading her gallantly to one of the cumbrous couches near them, placed her upon it, and sat down beside her. The Days of Bruce Vol 1 A Story from Scottish History Next comes a battalion of Tommies swinging down the road, loaded like Christmas trees with their cumbrous kits, sweating, singing, whistling, as they march by with dogged cheer toward the trenches. With Our Soldiers in France Before he could frame his modesty to fit reply, the cumbrous retreat of Senator Loot was overheard. The President A novel There is something in this scene of transcendent beauty, in these trees, and hills and waves, that for ever whisper to me, leave thy cumbrous flesh, and make a part of us. The Last Man If such names were given by mere caprice it would make no difference; and they could not be more cumbrous, ugly, or absurd than many of those that are given 'for reasons.' Logic Deductive and Inductive This was cumbrously loaded with lamps, glass lustres, and European furniture; on the walls hung some wretched pictures, framed and glazed. The Story of Ida Pfeiffer and Her Travels in Many Lands The garden-fence, that was so gigantic, is now only a simple paling; its gate that was such a cumbrous affair—reminding you of Gaza—you might easily lift from its hinges. Dream Life A Fable Of The Seasons Not with balloons and their cumbrous inflations, but with machines capable of carrying the load, and traveling by displacement of the air at high velocities. Scientific American Supplement, No. 312, December 24, 1881 It may be that the old form was such a cumbrous piece of hypocrisy that latter-day people have thrown it off in disgust. The Golden Censer The duties of to-day, the hopes of the future Consequently, the weight of form which in the former case it might, and even ought to, possess, would here be cumbrous, ugly, and improper; and accordingly we find it got rid of. The Poetry of Architecture Or, the Architecture of the Nations of Europe Considered in its Association with Natural Scenery and National Character A sound from behind made him turn his head, and fifty feet away he saw the big grizzly ambling cumbrously from the cabin. The Courage of Marge O'Doone It was a cumbrous weapon, and with a blunt edge; still, it had a point, and I was ready to thrust and parry against the world. Romance It has been thought by some folks, that there were easier methods of ascending into the air than by a cumbrous balloon, but their inventions never became popular. Round-about Rambles in Lands of Fact and Fancy As for the cannon with which all the galleys were armed, they were far too cumbrous and unmanageable to be worked in such weather. The Lion of Saint Mark A Story of Venice in the Fourteenth Century It is simple and substantial, without being cumbrous; it gives great variety to the wall from which it projects, terminates the roof agreeably, and dismisses its smoke with infinite propriety. The Poetry of Architecture Or, the Architecture of the Nations of Europe Considered in its Association with Natural Scenery and National Character On the other hand, any attempt to state the facts of the outer world on Berkeley's plan, or on any plan that avoids the self-contradiction, is most cumbrous and unmanageable. Practical Essays For ill-made arms, by pressing too much upon the shoulders, or hanging cumbrous on some other part, become almost insupportable, and greatly incommode the person that weareth them. The Memorable Thoughts of Socrates It was, as Dr. Peet remarks, a cumbrous and unwieldly vehicle, ready at every step to break down under the weight of its own machinery. Sign Language Among North American Indians Compared With That Among Other Peoples And Deaf-Mutes First Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1879-1880, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1881, pages 263-552 But there is still one important sphere of legislation in which drastic reform is necessary: the costly and cumbrous methods of dealing with private bills promoted by municipalities or by railways and other public companies. Essays in Liberalism Being the Lectures and Papers Which Were Delivered at the Liberal Summer School at Oxford, 1922 It prevails to a considerable extent among the villas of the south, being always broad and tall, and occasionally so frequent as to give the building, viewed laterally, a pyramidal and cumbrous effect. The Poetry of Architecture Or, the Architecture of the Nations of Europe Considered in its Association with Natural Scenery and National Character This is rather a cumbrous and costly remedy for the disadvantage, in debate, of having to reply to a speaker who has just sat down. Practical Essays There was a spirit of romance and grace about it, somewhat cumbrous and stately, but outwardly pure and refined, and quite a step out of the gross and open vice of the former reigns. History of France Colonel L'Isle, I have mastered already all the ordinary phrases of Portuguese salutation and compliment, which you know are much more various and cumbrous than in our direct, blunt English. The Actress in High Life An Episode in Winter Quarters So again if we want to see and to feel the splendour and vigour of a lion, or even to watch the cumbrous grace of a bear, we prefer that a cage should intervene. Ancient Art and Ritual But Simon had probably small faith in the cumbrous system of government which the Barons devised, and it was with reluctance that he was brought to swear to the Provisions of Oxford which embodied it. History of the English People, Volume II The Charter, 1216-1307; The Parliament, 1307-1400 To remember these rules with their exceptions would be a considerable mental task and to apply them would be cumbrous and time consuming. Division of Words Rules for the Division of Words at the Ends of Lines, with Remarks on Spelling, Syllabication and Pronunciation The cumbrous complicated Catechisms and Confessions are magnificent monuments, but they are worse than useless under such conditions. On the King's Service Inward Glimpses of Men at Arms Gradually the sunbeams grew hotter, the mountain breeze became a sultry breath, the ground steeper and more rugged, and their accumulating floral treasures more and more cumbrous. The Actress in High Life An Episode in Winter Quarters He was at hand to sanction what steps might be necessary, an advance on cumbrous despatch writing. The Romance of a Pro-Consul Being The Personal Life And Memoirs Of The Right Hon. Sir George Grey, K.C.B. Such a constitution was of a different order from the cumbrous and oligarchical committees of 1258. History of the English People, Volume II The Charter, 1216-1307; The Parliament, 1307-1400 Even into cathedrals cumbrous ladies' pews were often introduced. The English Church in the Eighteenth Century Numb with long sitting we dropped cumbrously to earth from the high footboard, and found ourselves face to face with the problem of how to spend the next three hours. All on the Irish Shore Irish Sketches Note.—To avoid repeating the cumbrous phrase "international auxiliary language," the word auxiliary is usually omitted. International Language Past, Present and Future: With Specimens of Esperanto and Grammar She thanked him with a new shyness, and taking the cumbrous emblem of her inferiority over her left arm, held out her strong hard little right hand to him. Secret Bread But the long bows of the English outshot the obsolete and cumbrous weapons of the Genoese, whose strings had been wetted by the recent storm. The History of England From the Accession of Henry III. to the Death of Edward III. (1216-1377) He was the colonel's henchman, although he never had brains enough to win a place on the regimental staff, and when Mrs. Maynard came he overwhelmed her with cumbrous compliments and incessant calls. From the Ranks |
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