Bumps have a great deal to answer for.

Of course we refer to phrenological bumps, from which, possibly, the powerful adjective "bumptious" is derived, it being applicable to a person whose conflicting bumps keep him continually on the rampage.

Of course we refer to phrenological bumps, from which, possibly, the powerful adjective "bumptious" is derived, it being applicable to a person whose conflicting bumps keep him continually on the rampage.

Of all such persons, the one with microscopes in his bumps for eyes is the most bumptious.

Of course, the small Jonah of the flock tumbles up the stairs, bumps his nose, and breaks his treasure....

Peter, carrying many small things too valuable to trust to others, jumped, as suggested, and gave his new friend an unexpected shower of bumps from hard substances concealed about his person.

With the shutters up the place was almost in darkness, and in spite of his utmost care apples and potatoes rolled on to the floor and travelled across it in a succession of bumps.

Sure you examined the ground ahead, and saw to it we'd hit no bumps that might give us trouble?"

He never knew whether he jumped purposely or lost his grip of that upright after the shock of the collision; but the next thing he realized he was straining himself with might and main to hold back the monoplane, already gliding along with sundry violent bumps, on the three bicycle wheels.

But when one group's absolute truth bumps up against another group's absolute truth, only conflict can result.

The older people say that the cocoanuts grow so closely together high up in the branches that the wind, when it shakes the tree, bumps them together.

Two days before one of Josie's public appearances her mother would twist the child's hair into innumerable rag curlers that stood out in grotesque, Topsy-like bumps all over her fair head.

PUNCH: "They've given you a fine new machine, Mr. Premier, and you've got plenty of spirit, but look out for bumps."] February, a month of comparative anti-climax, witnessed the reassembling of Parliament, fuller than ever of members if not of wisdom.

He baptized his four guns by absurd nicknames, and had a particular affection for old "Bumps," which had been scarred by several shells.

Ten minutes later the lieutenant came back laughing gaily and, after shaking some straw out of his muddy uniform, gave a caressing touch to old "Bumps," who had got the enemy's range to perfection.

When my breasts began to grow (adolescence) I didn't want those bumps on me, and tied them down with wide rags.

The native canoe is so long and heavy that it is difficult to navigate without some bumps on the rocks.

Mr. Bumps and his monkey.

Mr. Bumps and his monkey.

Mr. Bumps and his monkey.

TERHUNE, ALBERT PAYSON. Bumps.

A lad of his years, however, rarely suffers from hard knocks and bumps, and he was on his feet the next moment.

She had a large head, with great bumps of caution and order, her eyes were large and soft and far apart.

I's educated by de licks an' bumps I got.

The Turners made furniture wid knobs an' bumps on just like that stand and bed.