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  • Which meant that Lawford could now look for a government post, something unburdensome but with a welcome salary.

    Sharpe's Regiment Cornwell, Bernard 1986

  • Lord North was then on the outlook for fresh and comparatively unburdensome means of increasing the revenue, and obtained valuable assistance from the Wealth of Nations.

    Life of Adam Smith Rae, John, 1845-1915 1895

  • Then she made inquiry, and found that our innocent little rascals had established a Fly Trust, and had hired all the children in the neighborhood to collect flies on a cheap and unburdensome commission.

    Chapters from My Autobiography Mark Twain 1872

  • If this proves a financial success, as seems quite certain, they propose to establish a banking-house in Greenville, and lend money at an unburdensome rate of interest -- 6 per cent. is spoken of.

    Life on the Mississippi Mark Twain 1872

  • If this proves a financial success, as seems quite certain, they propose to establish a banking-house in Greenville, and lend money at an unburdensome rate of interest -- 6 per cent. is spoken of.

    Life on the Mississippi, Part 7. Mark Twain 1872

  • If this proves a financial success, as seems quite certain, they propose to establish a banking-house in Greenville, and lend money at an unburdensome rate of interest -- 6 per cent. is spoken of.

    Life on the Mississippi 1870

  • At all events, considered relatively to the encouragement of learning and genius, the establishment presents a patronage at once so effective and unburdensome, that it would be impossible to afford the like or equal in any but a Christian and Protestant country.

    Biographia Literaria Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1803

  • (He also took a few whacks at the EPA in the interview, fed up with their "unburdensome regulations.")

    Swing State Project 2010

  • Hightower knows how to present police procedure in unburdensome detail, and she is flawless at rendering the banter of working cops. "—

    The Debt Collector Hightower, Lynn 2000

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