He swung the heavy and cumbrous canvas into position as if it were a dust cloth.
The notation is cumbrous, but scarcely more so than that of the Romans.
As the usual preterite was heryed (hr-y-ed-e being too cumbrous and almost unpronounceable), there is no error.
The process of gathering a royal army in Samoa is cumbrous and dilatory in the extreme.
Being isolated, it had escaped the fire; as maybe it had proved too cumbrous for removal.
