Lo, as frogs that Winter cumbers Meet the Spring with stiffen'd yawn, We from our hard night of slumbers Marched into the bloody dawn.
"The Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith"
George Meredith
The oak case that I bought with it cumbers my desk as I write, and, shut, you would think that it had never contained anything more lethal than fruit-knives.
"Dead Men Tell No Tales"
E. W. Hornung
It cumbers your lap, and I want it for my head; it engages your eyes, and I want them for a book.
"Shirley"
Charlotte Brontë