1 I am but the incumbent of a poor country parish: my aid must be of the humblest sort.
2 For about three years I heard little of him; but on the decease of the incumbent of the living which had been designed for him, he applied to me again by letter for the presentation.
3 But before doing so, there were a few words that he felt it incumbent upon him to say.
4 With the prospect of spending at least two months at Uppercross, it was highly incumbent on her to clothe her imagination, her memory, and all her ideas in as much of Uppercross as possible.
5 I have felt it incumbent upon me, Master Copperfield,' said Uriah, 'to point out to Doctor Strong what you and me have already talked about.
6 Heyward felt it had now become incumbent on him to act.
7 Balashev, feeling it incumbent on him to reply, said that from the Russian side things did not appear in so gloomy a light.
8 The power, then, that parents have over their children, arises from that duty which is incumbent on them, to take care of their off-spring, during the imperfect state of childhood.