How To Use Cumbrous In A Sentence
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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.
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I am glad John Winthorp and John Carver did not bring cumbrous and cruel iron branks to America.
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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
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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.
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Against such a view as his, it can be argued that touring something as cumbrous and labor-intensive as opera is an expensive business.
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[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
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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
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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
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The shadows marched over the land, then straddled the freeway, cumbrous but determined.
DEAD LINES
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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
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The exception was that the formal pronoun was never used in addressing God, and it would still be weird for anybody to use the formal pronoun in prayer, though the endings of it are sometimes unwittingly attached to verbs by people who still find the informal cumbrous and unfamiliar.
Fateful Realizations of the Unexamined Life « Unknowing
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[46] In all Gray's Odes, there is a kind of cumbrous splendour which we wish away ....
Life Of Johnson
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Since Latin enditing is "cumbrous," the translator of _The Blood at
Early Theories of Translation
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Under the cumbrous heading ‘Possible Engagements Are to be Regarded as Real Ones Because of their Consequences’, Clausewitz explained further what he meant by this ‘priority of engagements’.
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Early European settlers adopted the process, but found less cumbrous methods.
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It was anti-futuristic, so cumbrous and mechanical that even the acronym seemed dated.
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Without decimals, Europe would have remained trapped in the cumbrous Roman system of numeration.
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He replied that the proxy bill was not unconstitutional, though its mode of operation was ‘inconvenient, cumbrous and liable to fraud and abuse.’
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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
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These pretended journeys to France were rather cumbrous.
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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.
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His ribs must have been tearing at their cumbrous shell.
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He certainly loved his little illustrations in The Ceremonies of the Roman Rite more than all the lengthy accounts and necessarily cumbrous descriptions of ceremonies which in actuality sometimes go as smoothly as the waters of Shiloah.
On Adrian Fortescue
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Her treatise has the usual cumbrous apparatus of scholarly citation, though I did wonder about her methods of research.
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Moreover, the tide was ebbing and the cumbrous vessel was in danger of running aground and not getting off.
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In the Middle Ages the cumbrous but powerful crossbow was widely used in continental Europe.
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To overcome this difficulty (called chromatic aberration) telescope glasses were made small and of very long focus: some of them so long that they had no tube, all of them egregiously cumbrous.
Pioneers of Science
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He had been, though a much younger man, acquainted with the late Sir Hildebrand; and whenever Mrs Rayland and Lord Carloraine met, which they did in cumbrous state twice or thrice a year, their whole conversation consisted of eulogiums on the days that were passed, in expressing their dislike of all that was now acting in a degenerate world, and their contempt of the actors.
The Old Manor House
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hallowed fountains," and "solemn sound;" but in all Gray's odes there is a kind of cumbrous splendour which we wish away.
Johnson's Lives of the Poets — Volume 2
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The Service stretcher, while soundly built and serviceable, is for this very reason a somewhat cumbrous load even when empty.
War Story of the Canadian Army Medical Corps
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These will not be numbered among the devotees of Waugh, and probably struggle with pompousness, may be cumbrous or even clumsy from time to time.
If I Could Have a Conversation about It: Decline and Fall « Unknowing
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[23] The _hermandad_ of Castile had never been countenanced by legislative sanction; it was chiefly resorted to as a measure of police, and was directed more frequently against the disorders of the nobility, than of the sovereign; it was organized with difficulty, and, compared with the union of Aragon, was cumbrous and languid in its operations.
The History of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella the Catholic — Volume 1
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These will not be numbered among the devotees of Waugh, and probably struggle with pompousness, may be cumbrous or even clumsy from time to time.
If I Could Have a Conversation about It: Decline and Fall « Unknowing
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Take, for example, batrachia: they are slow, cumbrous and sluggish in their movements; they are unintelligent, and, at the same time, extremely tenacious of life; the reason of which is that, with a very small brain, their spine and nerves are very thick.
Religion
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Clearly, members were unhappy with the cumbrous nature of the rulemaking process.
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It was his role to give the villains their orders for the night, haggle over the prices and keep a candle burning in the dissecting room waiting for the cumbrous sacks to arrive.
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cumbrous protective clothing
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At the heart of this strange embedded narrative lies a cumbrous allegory.
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I can imagine even Charlemagne waving that cumbrous label impatiently aside, though Noyon mixed with Laon was his first capital.
Everyman's Land
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On the one hand, victims of crime could now bring their cases to the attention of the authorities through bills of indictment instead of through the cumbrous and difficult procedure of appeal.
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Without decimals, Europe would have remained trapped in the cumbrous Roman system of numeration.
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Then, by dint of pushing and tugging, the head was got into the "lunette," the upper part of which fell in such wise that the neck was fixed as in a ship's port-hole -- and all this was accomplished amidst such confusion and with such savagery that one might have thought that head some cumbrous thing which it was necessary to get rid of with the greatest speed.
The Three Cities Trilogy: Paris, Volume 5
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The subordinate forms in a period are often nested one within the other, like Chinese boxes; in its most complex forms it can be cumbrous and hard to follow.
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Turkish iron-clads and, amidst flying colours, fully-manned yards and swarming caiques and steam-boats the journey to the shore was made -- with some private speculation as to what would happen to the Life Guardsmen of the Prince's suite if they should be upset in the water with all their cumbrous "toggery" on.
The Life of King Edward VII with a sketch of the career of King George V
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Lo, if she walk in the West, so cumbrous her corpulence is The
The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume IV
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Without decimals, Europe would have remained trapped in the cumbrous Roman system of numeration.
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The clamors of the bar soon brought about … amendment … and left the code … a great cumbrous piece of machinery without driving-wheels, steam-chest or boiler, propelled along by the typical slow oxteam.9
A History of American Law
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I shall hope that a more rigorous, if more cumbrous, mode of expression will always be readily available.
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John Gielgud, playing Othello at Stratford in 1961, was less happy, complaining that Hall's costumes were "beautiful but cumbrous" and that the elaborate production stalled while Zeffirelli leafed through "his damned press cuttings".
Peter J Hall obituary
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Such an author will at one moment write in a dithyrambic vein, as though he were tipsy; at another, nay, on the very next page, he will be pompous, severe, profoundly learned and prolix, stumbling on in the most cumbrous way and chopping up everything very small; like the late Christian Wolf, only in a modern dress.
The Art of Literature
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Still, they will not be blocking intersections or chanting beneath cumbrous papier-mache puppets.
