1 Again, not a very difficult condition with which to encumber such a rise in fortune; but if you have any objection to it, this is the time to mention it.
2 The casket would encumber you.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In 21 THE COUNTESS DE WINTER 3 This quarter of an acre, so poorly planted, so encumbered with mean buildings and sheds, was dear to him, and satisfied his wants.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XIII—WHAT HE BELIEVED 4 A dizzy multitude fills the roads, the paths, the bridges, the plains, the hills, the valleys, the woods, encumbered by this invasion of forty thousand men.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XIII—THE CATASTROPHE 5 The edges of the hollow road were encumbered with horses and riders, inextricably heaped up.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XIX—THE BATTLE-FIELD AT NIGHT 6 The building was a sort of ruin, where dismantled chambers were distinguishable, one of which, much encumbered, seemed to serve as a shed.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER VI—THE BEGINNING OF AN ENIGMA 7 The grave-digger's dwelling was, like all such wretched habitations, an unfurnished and encumbered garret.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 8: CHAPTER VII—IN WHICH WILL BE FOUND THE ORIGIN OF THE SAYI... 8 By nine o'clock, more than eight hundred persons had been arrested, the Prefecture of Police was encumbered with them, so was the Conciergerie, so was La Force.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 10: CHAPTER V—ORIGINALITY OF PARIS 9 The hall on the first floor, where "the restaurant" was situated, was a large and long apartment encumbered with stools, chairs, benches, and tables, and with a crippled, lame, old billiard-table.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 12: CHAPTER I—HISTORY OF CORINTHE FROM ITS FOUNDATION 10 In the neighborhood, the spaces beneath the portes cocheres were encumbered with wounded.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER I—THE CHARYBDIS OF THE FAUBOURG SAINT ANTOINE AND... 11 He introduced him into the drawing-room, still encumbered and topsy-turvy, and which bore the air of a field of battle after the joys of the preceding evening.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 7: CHAPTER I—THE SEVENTH CIRCLE AND THE EIGHTH HEAVEN 12 She doubted Mrs. Van Osburgh's reluctance, but was aware of Miss Farish's habit of ascribing her own delicacies of feeling to the persons least likely to be encumbered by them.
13 In the red glow from the fire-box, a group of people stood huddled together on the platform, encumbered by bundles and boxes.
14 They went together, picking their way across muddy streets and sidewalks encumbered with the cheap display of small tradesmen.
15 But the impetuous young men were rewarded by finding that, encumbered with Cora, the Hurons were losing ground in the race.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 32