10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «CUMBERER»
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cumberer in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
cumberer and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Cumberer of the Ground Volume 1
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923.
BiblioBazaar, Constance Isabella Stuart Smith, 2010
2
Lippincott's Monthly Magazine
The Cumberer straightened up in the saddle, the devil looking out of his torture-
weaved face. The devil's eyes were on Glawm. " You hear me," he said low and
viciously. " I 'm going back to Manila. I am going back to Manila now, alone, on
foot ...
3
Selected Speeches and Writings of Theodore Roosevelt
2. a cumberer of the earth's surface: A paraphrase of aline from Constance
Isabella Stuart Smith's novel A Cumberer of the Ground (1894), in which a
character remarks “Idon'tcare tofeel myselfa complete cumberer of the earth. No
one likes to ...
Theodore Roosevelt, Gordon Hutner, 2014
"And 0 ! how many will tread on me, To come and admire the beautiful tree,
Whose head is towering toward the sky, Above such a worthless thing as I !
Useless and vain, a cumberer here, I have been idling from year to year ; But
never, from ...
James William Searson, George Ellsworth Martin, 1911
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Mid-England: A Monthly Magazine of Literature, Science, Art, ...
I am a cumberer of the earth—a poor infirm cumberer! It is sinful, especially sinful
of you, Arthur, being a clergyman, and bound to show loving kindness.” Sydney
was so frightened during this speech that there is no telling what further mischief
...
6
Femininity, Crime and Self-Defence in Victorian Literature ...
... cumberer of the ground', a phrase which is used in such a context in Tenant of
Wildfell Hall and also in Robins's Convert, in which the unmarried Vida Levering
describes herself to her half-sister as 'a mere cumberer of the earth' (Convert, p.
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The Orthodox Presbyterian
Cut it down — why cumbereth it the ground." The fruitless professor of religion is
a cumberer of the ground. He is unprofitable to himself — to the church — and to
the world. Like a barren tree, he occupies the place which might probably have ...
It was this pleasant cumberer of the earth, then, who on the morning after Lily's
return, stopped his car before the Car- dew house and got out. Immediately
following his descent he turned, took a square white box from the car, ascended
the ...
Mary Roberts Rinehart, 2010
This morning as from my window I watched the army march at daybreak every
hope seemed crushed within me, “Useless cumberer of the ground,” I cried, “for
what were you born? Too feeble in body to strike one blow in defence of what is ...
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Middle English Dictionary
Also cumberer. [Cp. encSmbrer.] Tempter, seducer. al500 Play Sacr. 80l: To put
down that serpent, cumberer of man. combres — combrous. cSmbre-world n. [
From the phrase *combren the world.] (a) One who causes trouble or misfortune
to ...
NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «CUMBERER»
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Oh, Julia: From Birth to Death, Left and Right
By ninety, bent and crooked, she is homeless: “A useless cumberer / on the earth / From house to house / they send her forth.” A government ... «New Yorker, May 12»
