What is "unencumbered"

Usage examples of "unencumbered".

With Echo every sporting character was better known than his college tutor, and not a few kept an eye upon the boy, with hopes, no doubt, of hereafter benefiting by his inexperience, when, having got the whip-hand of his juvenile restrictions, he starts forth to the world a man of fashion and consequence, with an unencumbered property of fifteen thousand per annum, besides expectancies.

Maybe the fighting stayed cleaner too when you were unencumbered by ambition and eagerness for profit and all the other crazy compulsions that had pressed so hard on Pardee over the years.

Ladies with the airs of queens descended from their carriages at the entrance to the notions shop, unencumbered by nursemaids or servants, and as they pretended to buy Holland laces and passementerie trimmings, they pawned, between sobs, the last glittering ornaments of their lost paradise.

Rapid events required rapid responses: the needed consensus could only be reached in a free-form setting unencumbered by snail-paced bureaucracy, cabinet-level politicking, and endless second-guessing of timid analysts.

Timmy shrugged, an expansive gesture remarkably unencumbered by his healing sternal wound.

Perhaps because she was unencumbered by petticoat or buttoned bodice or long overskirt tied back at the sides or buckle shoes with light cotton stockings, in short because she was not dressed as I was, even in my unpreparedness for the street, she was at my side in a few jerky moves before I was even five steps closer to the door.

Yet I find I prefer knowing that I will make my way unencumbered by sorcerous aids or obstacles.

Other than his cloak, he was covered only by a breechclout, for he liked to travel unencumbered.

He had his shield, and Uwen carried his own, but his guards, who had had the banners, had their hands unencumbered, and Sergeant Gedd took the idea to snatch a stub of a candle from its holder and borrow fire from the torch-bearer.

Royal Army was two days in reorganizing, then immediately took up the pursuit of the shattered Scottish host, this time unencumbered by wagons or by any but the lightest of field guns, the necessities on pack animals, and the trains and the wounded well on the way to Durham.

On lead reins behind that coach, Thunder and the Pinzgauer ran unencumbered and easily.

Hector tried to grapple with the unencumbered one, a tall athletic-looking figure who with practiced ease caught him in a wristlock and twisted his arm up behind his back.

I not found a place within myself where naught but love abided, simple and unencumbered.

The dream was progressing quickly, which is something dreams are easily able to do, being unencumbered as they are by the constraints of reality.

Then she strode back to her sled for a second load, commandeering two more unencumbered handlers on the way.