cumberground

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The church and a profession are the best of places for the upright; but the worst in the world for the cumberground.

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  • The day will surely come, when I must quit this frail tabernacle, and it may be soon—I certainly know, I am not of importance eno' in this world, for any one to wish my stay—rather am I, and so I consider myself as a cumberground. —  The Project Gutenberg eBook of Diary of Anna Green Winslow, by Anna Green Winslow
  • The church and a profession are the best of places for the upright; but the worst in the world for the cumberground. —  The Riches of Bunyan
  • The day will surely come, when I must quit this frail tabernacle, and it may be soon -- I certainly know, I am not of importance eno 'in this world, for any one to wish my stay -- rather am I, and so I consider myself as a cumberground. —  Diary of Anna Green Winslow A Boston School Girl of 1771
 

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