Cumbrous Quotes
- English orthography satisfies all the requirements of the canons of reputability under the law of conspicuous waste. It is archaic, cumbrous, and ineffective; its acquisition… — Thorstein Veblen
- Religious discord has lost her sting; the cumbrous weapons of theological warfare are antiquated: the field of politics supplies the alchymists of our times with… — John Quincy Adams
- The animal merely makes a bed, which he warms with his body in a sheltered place; but man, having discovered fire, boxes up some air… — Henry David Thoreau
- The former measured six feet and an inch in his stockings, and, without a single pound of cumbrous flesh about him, weighed a hundred and… — Augustus Baldwin Longstreet