Lexicographical Neighbors of Cumberers
Literary usage of Cumberers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Whole Works of the Late Reverend and Learned Mr. Thomas Boston, Minister by Thomas Boston (1852)
"In what respect are they cumberers of the ground ? 3. The import of cutting them
down, iii., 380—383. Ungodly men, a sentence passed in the court of heaven ..."
2. The pulpit commentary, ed. by H.D.M. Spence and J.S. Exell. nT= edited by Henry Donald M. Spence- Jones (1881)
"... were guilty of unnameable crimes, rejecters of Divine revelation, and cumberers
of the ground yet to be occupied by God's gracious purposes. III. ..."
3. Studies for Stories from Girls' Lives by Jean Ingelow (1866)
"THE cumberers. CHAPTER I.—THE MISSES PERKINS. years ago, while staying at the
sea-side, my parents renewed their acquaintance with some ladies, ..."
4. Macmillan's Magazine by David Masson, George Grove, John Morley, Mowbray Morris (1905)
"But these days were over and gone, and now she was one with the cumberers of the
beach, and sailed the seas no more. Yet it was never hers to play such a ..."
5. The English Illustrated Magazine (1890)
"... who would otherwise have been but cumberers of the ground. And very aggressive
cumberers, if the expression may be allowed—discontented, idle, ..."
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