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Mistress Yordas, as she was more correctly styled by usage of the period, was a maiden lady of fine presence, uncumbered as yet by weight of years, and only dignified thereby.

From Mary Anerley : a Yorkshire Tale by Blackmore, R. D. (Richard Doddridge)

Seen him I have, but in his happier hour Of social pleasure, ill exchanged for power; Seen him, uncumbered with the venal tribe, Smile without art, and win without a bribe.

From English Satires by Smeaton, William Henry Oliphant

Man's spirit will be flesh-bound when found at best, But uncumbered: meadow-down is not distressed    For a rainbow footing it nor he for his bónes rísen.

From Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins Now First Published by Bridges, Robert Seymour

Pope thus describes him:— 'Seen him, I have, but in his happier hour, Of social pleasure, ill exchanged for power; Seen him uncumbered with the venal tribe, Smile without art, and win without a bribe.'

From The Wits and Beaux of Society Volume 2 by Wharton, Philip

It was primitive man, riding between the highlands, uncumbered, free to grasp what was before him.

From Lazarre by Catherwood, Mary Hartwell