encumbrance

On the other hand, it has sometimes been an encumbrance.

Soon she would be able to do it without any encumbrance.

I was just an encumbrance to him after you came into his life.

But it would be nice if he saw her, just once, as a girl and not an encumbrance.

However the school made no such encumbrances on either faculty or students.

She will surely find so many foreign children an encumbrance?

The bag, though, was another problem, an encumbrance she could do without.

Or would they take the easy way out of dealing with an encumbrance?

The police were after me at the time, they have been for most of my life, and the girl was a grave encumbrance.

They were nothing but encumbrances and no concern of mine.

Yet he wanted help, an ally and a friend, not an encumbrance.

And how could anyone possibly dance in such an encumbrance?

One of my father's first objects was to prevent him from being any encumbrance to you.

They were under orders not to kill her; she had no such encumbrance.

This encumbrance means that no one has clear title to the property.

He'd strike out for the open road, live his life as he pleased, without any encumbrances.

What's great about these small places is that they're not encumbrances."

How open to every gratification would that mind be which was clear of these encumbrances!

He has few close friends and seems to want few encumbrances.

A child would be an encumbrance, a burden, not a blessing.

For these public school students, computer sessions are treats, not encumbrances.

An interest is a legal encumbrance that affects a title.

To the young the past was always an encumbrance.

But that's more expense, bother and physical encumbrance than most people will put up with.

Most directors would like to keep the company's business premises free from further encumbrances if at all possible.