cumbrous

How To Use cumbrous In A Sentence

• The parry of prime which was effectual enough when a heavy cut was to be stopped was too slow and cumbrous to keep pace with the nimbler thrust.
• I am glad John Winthorp and John Carver did not bring cumbrous and cruel iron branks to America.
• This facilitates search, though it necessitates the cumbrous mode of reference adopted in the foot-notes to chapter, section, and placitum. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 69, July, 1863
• If that be so he will have a choice, which will often be a choice between the old, cumbrous, costly, on the one hand, the modern, rapid, cheap, on the other.
• Against such a view as his, it can be argued that touring something as cumbrous and labor-intensive as opera is an expensive business.
• [85] Their encounter was varied, and balanced by the contrast of arms and discipline; of the direct charge, and wheeling evolutions; of the couched lance, and the brandished javelin; of a weighty broadsword, and a crooked sabre; of cumbrous armor, and thin flowing robes; and of the long Tartar bow, and the arbalist or crossbow, a deadly weapon, yet unknown to the Orientals. History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 5
• In all Gray's odes," wrote Johnson, "there is a kind of cumbrous splendor which we wish away ... A History of English Romanticism in the Eighteenth Century
• Zola borrowed more, but mainly the unwholesome parts, truncating these further to suit his theory of the novel as a slice of life seen through a temperament, and travestying in the Rougon-Macquart scheme, with its burden of heredity and physiological blemish, Balzac's cumbrous and plausible doctrine of the _Comedy_. Balzac
• The shadows marched over the land, then straddled the freeway, cumbrous but determined. DEAD LINES
• Mr. Jensen describes how his sailors feel cumbrous and fumbling when on land, and the same is somewhat the case for the book. Going to Sea Once More