“Scotland, advancing in civilization with rapid stride, was little likely to cumber her progress with an institution which the sister realm had left behind.”

“Now it is good for nothing, but to cumber the ground, and furnish fuel for Tophet.”

“Why should I cumber myself with regrets that the receiver is not capacious?”

“The oak case that I bought with it cumbers my desk as I write, and, shut, you would think that it had never contained anything more lethal than fruit-knives.”

“Is not a patron, my Lord, one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water, and when he has reached the ground cumbers him with help?”

“Think of no man, woman or child of all that silly crowd cumbering the ground.”