incumbering

I fancy he will never think of incumbering himself with one of a sex, that has made him pay so dear for the general distinction he has met with from it.

Sir Charles Grandison 2006

From the dead incumbering camel brought to life the dying man.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 27, January, 1860 Various

Whereupon one or another of the occupants of the restricted apartment, silent and recumbent upon the cane divan, which served now as bed and extended all ground the room between the walls and the row of posts that upheld the roof, would reach out a long stick, furnished for the purpose to each sleeper, and touch off the incumbering ash from the glow of the embers.

The Frontiersmen Mary Noailles Murfree 1886

Indeed, it was recorded in Blazing Star that a fortunate early riser had once picked up on the highway a solid chunk of gold quartz which the rain had freed from its incumbering soil, and washed into immediate and glittering popularity.

Found at Blazing Star Bret Harte 1869

Canada -- must have had some special reason for incumbering myself in my travels with an intrinsically worthless piece of common Columbia marble.

The Gerrard Street Mystery and Other Weird Tales John Charles Dent 1864

But, without waiting for their comparatively slow movements, he placed himself at the head of three thousand Polish horsemen, and, without incumbering himself with luggage, like the sweep of the whirlwind traversed Silesia and Moravia, and reached Tulen, on the banks of the Danube, about twenty miles above Vienna.

The Empire of Austria; Its Rise and Present Power 1841

But there would be nothing gained by incumbering ourselves, especially in this place, with a generalization which may be looked upon as strained.

A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive John Stuart Mill 1839

These masses, moving off in succession with an interval of two hours between the departure of their several army-corps, may file off without incumbering the road, at least in ordinary countries.

The Art of War Henri Jomini 1824

The employment of this method being chiefly to avoid incumbering the road, the interval between the departure of the several corps is sufficiently great when the artillery may readily file off.

The Art of War Henri Jomini 1824

It has tended to furnish matter of distinction and vanity; and by incumbering the individual with new subjects of personal care, to substitute the anxiety he entertains for a separate fortune, instead of the confidence and the affection with which he should unite with his fellow creatures, for their joint preservation.

An Essay on the History of Civil Society, Eighth Edition Adam Ferguson 1769