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• On the one hand, victims of crime could now bring their cases to the attention of the authorities through bills of indictment instead of through the cumbrous and difficult procedure of appeal.
• He had been, though a much younger man, acquainted with the late Sir Hildebrand; and whenever Mrs Rayland and Lord Carloraine met, which they did in cumbrous state twice or thrice a year, their whole conversation consisted of eulogiums on the days that were passed, in expressing their dislike of all that was now acting in a degenerate world, and their contempt of the actors. The Old Manor House
• hallowed fountains," and "solemn sound;" but in all Gray's odes there is a kind of cumbrous splendour which we wish away. Johnson's Lives of the Poets — Volume 2
• The Service stretcher, while soundly built and serviceable, is for this very reason a somewhat cumbrous load even when empty. War Story of the Canadian Army Medical Corps
• These will not be numbered among the devotees of Waugh, and probably struggle with pompousness, may be cumbrous or even clumsy from time to time. If I Could Have a Conversation about It: Decline and Fall « Unknowing
• [23] The _hermandad_ of Castile had never been countenanced by legislative sanction; it was chiefly resorted to as a measure of police, and was directed more frequently against the disorders of the nobility, than of the sovereign; it was organized with difficulty, and, compared with the union of Aragon, was cumbrous and languid in its operations. The History of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella the Catholic — Volume 1
• These will not be numbered among the devotees of Waugh, and probably struggle with pompousness, may be cumbrous or even clumsy from time to time. If I Could Have a Conversation about It: Decline and Fall « Unknowing
• Take, for example, batrachia: they are slow, cumbrous and sluggish in their movements; they are unintelligent, and, at the same time, extremely tenacious of life; the reason of which is that, with a very small brain, their spine and nerves are very thick. Religion
• Clearly, members were unhappy with the cumbrous nature of the rulemaking process.
• It was his role to give the villains their orders for the night, haggle over the prices and keep a candle burning in the dissecting room waiting for the cumbrous sacks to arrive.