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Nature doesn't care a continental copper," he went on fiercely, "whether you're a king or a bankrupt cotton-planter, or any other cumberer of the earth.

From The Open Question a tale of two temperaments by Robins, Elizabeth

A more worthless cumberer of the earth did not exist.

From Idle Hour Stories by Potts, Eugenia Dunlap

I cannot forbear wondering that I have been spared so long,—that I have not been cut down as a cumberer of the ground.

From Canadian Wild Flowers by Johnson, Helen M. (Helen Mar)

At rare and long intervals, however, he sighs a sigh that is the eloquent expression of a secret confession, to wit "I am useless and a nuisance, a cumberer of the earth."

From Sketches New and Old, Part 2. by Twain, Mark

But everybody in this world, who is not a cumberer of the ground, is out at service.

From A New Atmosphere by Hamilton, Gail