...The vindictive bitterness, the marked caution, the studied reverse, and the cumbrous ambiguity, practiced by our white folks, when alluding to this subject, was now fully explained...
Frederick Douglass 「My Bondage and My Freedom」
...We were not tired out; we had had more than six days' rest atthe lead; and when it closed we pushed on across the pressure-ridges onto the heavy and cumbrous ice of the circumpolar sea...
Matthew A. Henson 「A Negro Explorer at the North Pole」
...My invention, in both cases alike, is a cumbrous tackle of which the Bee tries to rid herself at once by every possible means...
J. Henri Fabre Alexander Teixeira de Mattos 「The Mason-bees」
...This persistence on her part to retain her hold on the cumbrous burden tells us pretty plainly that the game would go straight to the cells if the Philanthus had her liberty...
J. Henri Fabre 「More Hunting Wasps」
...Itprevails to a considerable extent among the villas of the south, beingalways broad and tall, and occasionally so frequent as to give thebuilding, viewed laterally, a pyramidal and cumbrous effect...
John Ruskin 「The Poetry of Architecture」
...The cumbrous system advocated by Ptolemy answered its purpose, enabling him topredict astronomical events approximately...
George Forbes 「History of Astronomy」
...To overcome this difficulty (called chromatic aberration)telescope glasses were made small and of very long focus: some of themso long that they had no tube, all of them egregiously cumbrous...
Oliver Lodge 「Pioneers of Science」
...They frequent retired and inaccessible parts of the interior; have been seen to run remarkably fast, but their tails are so cumbrous that they cannot fly in a direct line...
David Collins 「An Account of the English Colony in New South Wales, Vol. 2」
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