Thus instead of lumping all boys together it begins to distinguish them as big boys, little boys, middle-sized boys, boys in long trousers, boys in short trousers, barefoot boys, schoolboys, poor boys, rich boys, sick boys, well boys, friends, enemies, bullies, and what not.

The minister that divides the Word there must give lumping pennyworths.

The guards prodded them savagely with the butts of their musketoons, thus making scant room for us to shuffle through, out upon the far end of the wharf, where we were finally halted abreast of a lumping brig, apparently nearly ready for sea.

She was larger than I had thought, a lumping craft for those days, bark rigged, with lower spars the heaviest I had ever seen.

Lumping the phenomena of amnesia, somnambulism, hypnotism, anesthesia, obsession and hysteria into the grand group of mental dissociations and disintegrations, he achieved a unification never considered possible before him.

How fare these lords that, lumping, pouting, proud, Imagine now to quell me with their looks? Now welcome, sirs, is Marius thought so base?

"You're lumping a lot of big stuff altogether, Fullaway," he remarked drily.

You will certainly come to grief, if you pursue a vague ideal of lumping all results together, and regarding a profit somewhere as a sufficient excuse or a positive reason for making a loss elsewhere.

Sedbergh is embosomed among lumping hills.

The minister that divides the word there, must give lumping penny-worths.

She need not fear, no one would ever think she was married, she looks like a lumping German governess.

There are eight or nine million of us, and it will take a great deal of learning of all kinds to leaven that lump.

We go on launching these lumping great Dreadnoughts, and I cannot bring myself to believe in them.

The few sparks that flew out were thrown upon a kind of white down, found on the willows, under which was placed a lump of dried moss.

Upon this flat stone a lump of snow was placed, and below it was kindled a small fire of moss and blubber.

This method of lumping together several different parts of speech under the notion of one, and calling the whole an "adverbial phrase," a "substantive phrase," or an "interjectional phrase," is but a forced put, by which some grammarians would dodge certain difficulties which they know not how to meet.

She had not seen us at first, the bushes partially screening us; but when, having secured the clay, she turned her face in our direction and caught sight of us watching her, she hid the lump of clay in her pocket with a shamefaced look, and hurried away by the road she had come.

" "Ugh!" said my wife with a grimace, "you don't mean she's going to eat that great lump of clay?

He look 'cross de crick, an' seed dis yer clay-bank, an' he waded ober an' got all he could eat, an' den tuk a lump wid 'im, an' hid in de woods ag'in 'til he could study de matter ober some.

The worst feature of unionism is the lumping of all together, for where one man is hardly worth his salt, another is a good workman.

That's why I was wishing you'd bought that way, instead uh lumping the price and taking chances.

He did not know that the lump of blackness almost beneath his hand was a breathing woman; and if he had known, he would have disregarded her then.

Stir these briskly till flour is all dissolved, then pour it gradually in the saucepan with the mushrooms and cream, stirring the whole constantly to keep it from lumping.

Pour the liquid over the flour and butter, stirring constantly to avoid "lumping."

There seemed to be a smudge there at the left, a black, lumping shadow, shapeless against the background of sea; yet he could not be sure.