| 1. | But all women are rakes in their hearts, and numbers never encumber them. - from The Romance of Lust by Anonymous |
| 2. | 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. - from Great Expectations by Charles Dickens |
| 3. | Firm, faithful, and devoted, full of energy, and zeal, and truth, he labours for his race he clears their painful way to improvement he hews down like a giant the prejudices of creed and caste that encumber it. - from Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte |
| 4. | I actually love no one, sir you know it, do you not I do not then see why, without real necessity, I should encumber my life with a perpetual companion. - from The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas, Pere |
| 5. | Why was that fore-carriage of a truck in that place in the street In the first place, to encumber the street next, in order that it might finish the process of rusting. - from Les Miserables by Victor Hugo |
| 6. | Men fire in a square, in a passage, in a blind alley they take and re-take the barricade blood flows, the grape-shot riddles the fronts of the houses, the balls kill people in their beds, corpses encumber the streets. - from Les Miserables by Victor Hugo |
| 7. | A child encumbers a fugitive perhaps, on perceiving it was still alive, he had thrown it into the river.. - from The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas, Pere |
| 8. | It is a clog which, for the supposed benefit of some particular countries, embarrasses the pleasures and encumbers the industry of all other countries, but of the colonies more than of any other. - from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith |