354 examples of humping in sentences

What did he say to you?' 'Oh, he wrote, frankly to me.' 'Bored, is he?' 'Miserable; enamoured of sorrow; got the hump; frightfully off colour; wants to come back to London.

Why, if a feller so much as doubts one of yore reg'lar fish stories you gotta crawl his hump.

You go and crawl Swing's hump, Bill.

For twelve long months I had to pace, Humping my swag with a cadging face, Sleeping in the bush, like the sable race, As in my song you’ll understand.

To see you humping bluey, I know, would never do, Twould mean good-bye to our new chum, Jimmy Sago, Jackaroo.

They say you’ve ten thousand per annum, Sam Holt, In England, a park and a drag; Perhaps you forget you were six months ago In Queensland a-humping your swag.

Perhaps never, I think, And it’s likely enough your old mate Will be humping his drum on the Hughenden-road To the end of the chapter of fate.

He readily agreed, however, to the purchase of a camel, and when he was safely helped up on its hump, he sorely wished the people of Tarascon could see him.

He reassured his fellow-citizens, patting the camel's hump.

I sorter like a gloomy day, Th' kind that jest won't smile; It makes a feller hump hisself T' make life seem wuth while.

Trouble standin' in th' road and frownin' at you, black, Makes you feel like takin' to the weeds along the way; Wish to goodness you could turn and hump yerself straight back; Know 'twill be awful when he gets you close at bay!

"That's his hump.

Anything come of it?" "Nothing fatal, I guess, since Patsy is still humping along.

Bearings: Lat. 77.55; Cape Armitage N. 64 W.; Camel's Hump of Blue Glacier left, extreme; Castle Rock N. 40 W. Called the camp at 7.30.

[Footnote 2: The Life of Æsop, ascribed to Planudes Maximus, a monk of Constantinople in the fourteenth century, and usually prefixed to the Fables, says that he was 'the most deformed of all men of his age, for he had a pointed head, flat nostrils, a short neck, thick lips, was black, pot-bellied, bow-legged, and hump-backed; perhaps even uglier than Homer's Thersites.']

That fellow,' he pointed to a black hump in a wreath of spray, 'would cut up a miracle.' 'If you go on like this you won't have any whales left,' I said.

The latter has a hump on its extreme, resembling a haycock, and by our observations* is in latitude 23 degrees 30 minutes 30 seconds South, which is two miles south of its position in the chart.

So, under cloud and sun, when the wind blew soft and when it raved over the shrinking land, when the cold rain drove men into their yellow slickers and set horses to humping backs and turning tail to the drive of it and one heard the cook muttering profanity because the wood was wet and the water ran down the stovepipe and hungry men must wait because the stove would not "draw," the Double-Crank raked the range.

"That phrase, my Lambkin, is paradoxical'Lady of Honour.'" "Janet, thou dost turn all sweets to bitterness!Then I will mottle my face and wear a hump and be spurned outright.

We will mottle thy face with leprous spots and cover thee with old woman's clothes, placing a hump upon thy shoulder.

A hump was fastened to her shoulder; her face was darkened skillfully and leprous blotches painted thereon.

"May I be so bold as to inquire of your Majesty if there has not come to thee a woman with swart marks upon her face and a hump on her back, preferring a petition for thy signature to some lands now held by the Catholics?"

I would give, Sire, half my life to have seen your Majesty compel her to wash the painted spots from her face and take from her shoulder the false hump, and she" "Ah! ah!" came from the thoroughly awaked King.

"He's under there, and he's humping himself!" "Sacking bottom!" cried the practical Genevieve "There isn't room enough for him!"

" "To say nothing of a club foot, an impediment in her speech, a voice like a raven's, and a hump like a dromedary's!

354 examples of  humping  in sentences