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Perhaps Leiberman has forgotten that it is in cumbent upon senators to reflect the wants and needs of the American people.

Lieberman: I'll back health care bill without Medicare expansion 2009

When Dyer wrote blank verse he slipped into the Thomsonian diction, "cumbent sheep" and "purple groves pomaceous."

A History of English Romanticism in the Eighteenth Century 1886

[33] "Stems numerous from the crown of the root-stock, de-cumbent."

Proserpina, Volume 2 Studies Of Wayside Flowers John Ruskin 1859

Altar-tombs with cumbent effigies were painted so as to correspond in tone with the colours displayed on the walls; the pavement of encaustic tiles, of different devices, was interspersed with sepulchral slabs and inlaid brasses; and screen-work, niches for statuary, mouldings, and sculpture of different degrees of excellence, abounded.

The Principles of Gothic Ecclesiastical Architecture, Elucidated by Question and Answer, 4th ed. Matthew Holbeche Bloxam 1846

In the south aisle of Westminster-abbey, joining to Dr. Busby's, is erected a very noble marble monument to the memory of Dr. South, with his effigies in a cumbent posture, containing the following inscription:

Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. I. 1634-1716 1823

I am sorry you are discontent with there being no standing figure of Alphonso, and that I acquiesced in its being cumbent.

The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 4 Horace Walpole 1757

The steeple of the church, lately rebuilt handsomely, stands some paces from the body; in the latter are three tombs of the old Berkeleys;, with cumbent figures.

The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 4 Horace Walpole 1757

Blackleach, a great curiosity; for, though the figures of him and his wife are cumbent, they are very graceful, designed by

The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 2 Horace Walpole 1757

In the First Congressional District in the eastern part of the state, the more conservative of the state's two congressional districts, two-term Democratic in cumbent Carol Shea-Porter, whose favorability ratings have plunged since last fall, appears to be in the most peril.

BrothersJudd Blog 2010

In the First Congressional District in the eastern part of the state, the more conservative of the state's two congressional districts, two-term Democratic in cumbent Carol Shea-Porter, whose favorability ratings have plunged since last fall, appears to be in the most peril.

BrothersJudd Blog 2010