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  • The progression of material is combersome and, from a sequence of learning perspective, organized in an almost haphazzard fashion.

    Extinguish the Rumors: No New Amazon Kindle This Year - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com 2008

  • Just keep em small and un-combersome, easier to trasport when the shop gets compromised you know.

    EXTRALIFE – By Scott Johnson - Everyone thinks I am a wife killer. 2005

  • I will say I did have tons of issues registering with the IPledge website...all too confusing all to combersome!

    Accutane and Testosterone Steve Sailer 2005

  • Nay truly it hath that praise that it wants not Grammar; for Grammer it might have, but it needs it not, being so easie in it selfe, and so voyd of those combersome differences of Cases, Genders, Moods, & Tenses, which I thinke was a peece of the Tower of Babilons curse {175}, that a man should be put to schoole to learn his mother tongue.

    Defence of Poesie 1992

  • The Britains in those daies (as Cesar writeth) called that a towne or hold, which they had fortified with anie thicke combersome wood, with trench and rampire, into the which they vsed to get themselues for the auoiding of inuasion.

    Chronicles (1 of 6): The Historie of England (3 of 8) Raphael Holinshed

  • Cassibellane not minding to trie the matter anie more by battell, sent awaie the most part of his people, but yet kept with him about a foure thousand charretmen or wagoners, and still watched what waie the Romans tooke, coasting them euer as they marched, and kept somewhat aside within the couert of woods, and other combersome places.

    Chronicles (1 of 6): The Historie of England (3 of 8) Raphael Holinshed

  • It was besides combersome to them hauing many businesse to attende, in some seruices there might no maner of filth be falling from their heads.

    The Arte of English Poesie George Puttenham

  • On the other part the Romans were sore troubled with the rough mounteins and craggie rocks, by the which they were constreined to passe beside the dangerous riuers, lakes, woods, streicts, and other combersome waies and passages.

    Chronicles (1 of 6): The Historie of England (4 of 8) The Fovrth Booke Of The Historie Of England Raphael Holinshed

  • Frontinus, who vanquished and brought to the Romane subiection by force of armes the people called Silures, striuing not onelie against the stout resistance of the men, but also with the hardnesse & combersome troubles of the places.

    Chronicles (1 of 6): The Historie of England (4 of 8) The Fovrth Booke Of The Historie Of England Raphael Holinshed

  • Pretty much everyone agreed that the commenting system, and the need to do quite a bit of clicking, email checking and registration was a bit combersome when you first log in.

    Coolsmartphone News 2010

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