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story as "rather middling—not as bad as the worst, but full of cheap and cumbrous touches". Weird Tales editor Farnsworth Wright first rejected the story...

to as an oakley. For probably a hundred years, such pieces, massive and cumbrous in form, but often with well-carved fronts, were produced in moderate numbers;...

Budgerows were 'large and commodious, but generally cumbrous and sluggish keelless boats, used for journeys on the Ganges'. The term is thought to be an...

of plants] is still nameless, and we can only describe our pursuit by cumbrous and often misleading periphrasis. To meet this difficulty I suggest for...

found in medial or final positions in a word. The language was said to be "cumbrous and unlovely" to the elves; Tolkien described it as having a cacophonous...

It was one of the many curious developments of the mixed taste, at once cumbrous and bizarre, which prevailed in furniture during the Empire period in England...

pair of rolls could be driven independently without the intervention of cumbrous shafting. Austrian Mint – established in 1397 and produces the Vienna Philharmonic...

like Lord Brougham, was the amelioration of the law by the abolition of cumbrous technicalities rather than the assertion of new principles. To this end...

and settlement of questions of international importance, which, though cumbrous and inefficient for constructive work, contributed much to the preservation...

of the mountains, From the terror of the nations, As he lay asleep and cumbrous On the summit of the mountains, Like a rock with mosses on it, Spotted...

identical to the aberration measured with an air-filled telescope. A "cumbrous" attempt to explain these results used the hypothesis of partial aether-drag...

which the bayonet was awkward and too tender a weapon, and the machete too cumbrous." Carter, Rila, Carter's Cutlery Commentaries No. 3: The Little Machetes...

multiplication they effected in many ways, ours among them, but division they did cumbrously. These place value decimal arithmetic algorithms were introduced to Arab...

Thomas Rawlinson some time in the 1720s. He felt that the belted plaid was "cumbrous and unwieldy", and his solution was to separate the skirt and convert it...

1842 At Florence—From M. Angelo (XXII) 1837 "Eternal Lord! eased of a cumbrous load," Memorials of a Tour in Italy, 1837 1842 Among the Ruins of a Convent...

English visitor noted the small, sturdy Norman horses "running away with our cumbrous machine, at the rate of six or seven miles an hour". At this speed stagecoaches...

wisdom that ramify amidst this worthless debris, lie utterly neglected. Cumbrous volumes of rubbish are greedily accumulated, while those masses of rich...

the roaring of the flaming furnaces, the reverberations of the falling cumbrous hammers, and the fiery pieces of metal flying in all directions, are truly...

indispensable, since otherwise the notation rapidly becomes intolerably cumbrous. Thus ' x ε α' will mean ' x is a member of the class α'". (PM 1962:188)...

used by the rebels during the Indian rebellion of 1857. The matchlock, a cumbrous and no doubt ineffective weapon, was left mainly to the infantry while...