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The security locks were massive and complex, but a little cumbrous.

He dropped the cumbrous weapon Gregg had given him on the bed.

Then came the great cumbrous noise of the lid being fastened on above him.

Monopolies can, although in rather cumbrous fashion, be broken up by law suits.

There were also some rather cumbrous Victorian settees and cabinets.

The cumbrous door blocking their way was a thick wall of riveted iron.

Why, therefore, should he build a more cumbrous habitation than can readily be carried off with him?

The machinery of the ancient Forest courts was found at this time to be cumbrous and ineffective.

The stairs were cumbrous, more like a slope of solidified ripples.

These pretended journeys to France were rather cumbrous.

Cumbrous locutions, these; but through them he seemed to be getting nearer to what he wanted.

Lost races dredged here bit by bit from their cumbrous armour.

The matchlock, a cumbrous and probably ineffective weapon, was left mainly to the infantry.

He moved lightly despite the cumbrous suit he wore.

Rose glanced at her large, cumbrous figure and wondered anew about the passions of men and women.

By normal standards of good writing legal drafting is usually both cumbrous and uncouth.'

In 1899, in order to keep better control over its recording operations, the company abandoned this cumbrous cataloging system.

He made improvements to the astrolabe by introducing brass instruments in place of cumbrous wooden ones.

He would not hear of any radical reform of the cumbrous and obsolete Constitution of 1809.

The principal editor, Henry Petrie had died, and its form was cumbrous.

Not a mere cumbrous county gathering, nor yet a showy imported party from town, but a skillful blending of both.

When the cumbrous department came to be divided, he was appointed to head the Egyptian and Assyrian branch.

I stood indeed as little chance among them as a cumbrous whale attacked on all sides by a legion of swordfish.

Seconds of delay while the men at the sweeps worked out what was demanded, moved their cumbrous log-like oars into position.

The result is that Adam thinks death a deliverance from "this cumbrous charge," life, which he isn't so eager now to prolong.