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As an overladen Indiaman bearing down the Hindostan coast with a deck load of frightened horses, careens, buries, rolls, and wallows on her way; so did this old whale heave his aged bulk, and now and then partly turning over on his cumbrous rib-ends, expose the cause of his devious wake in the unnatural stump of his starboard fin.
- Melville, Moby-Dick, ch. 81
"...the system of tackles to the fore and main yardarms being so cumbrous..."
--Patrick O'Brian, The Truelove, 227
"Then, without warning, the tunnel ended.
The cumbrous door blocking their way was a thick wall of riveted iron."
- 'Angels and Demons', Dan Brown.