He was far from being in good health, and although he worked from morning to night, had a constant pain in his back, which was rather crooked, having indeed a little hump on it.

They said that they would require about twelve buffaloes per day; that would be twenty-four hams, as we took only the hind-quarters and hump of each buffalo.

If you should wheeze and limp in an old man's part, with back humped in mimicry, would you not fear that it bordered on the truth?

Mr. Saltoun, slouching comfortably back against his cantle, looked doubtfully down at Racey where he stood humped over, the horse's hoof between his knees, tapping with a knife handle at the lodged stone.

Behind them came Doña Victorina with Juanito Pelaez, who was talking in a loud voice, busily gesticulating, and appearing to have a larger hump than ever.

As her lithe, supple limbs carried her from one moss hump to another, she was busy with the problem of escape.

There were wigs of all sorts and descriptions on blocks, pads of every possible order and for every part of the body, humps for hunchbacks, wooden legs, boots ranging from the patent leather of the dandy to the toeless foot-covering of the beggar.

There were exchanged the exhalations of the two worlds; and, converted into clouds, the water of the southern hemispherethe hemisphere of the great seas with no other points of relief than the triangular extremities of Africa and America, and the humps of the oceanic archipelagoeswas always reinforcing the rills and rivers of the northern hemisphere with its inhabited lands.

Flat ones are ugly compared with those which hump along the centre, but they are also lighter.

He clubbed him on the humps with a tent stake.

[Later] This is a mistakeon closer inspection it is quite clear that the berg has tilted and that a great part of the upper strata, probably 20 feet deep, has slipped off, leaving the humps as islands on top.

The horned cattle are rather small, with humps between the shoulder-blades; these humps consist of flesh and are considered a great dainty.

"Their humps are fat," they all agreed; and, as a camel draws upon his hump for food as he draws upon the sacs surrounding his stomach for water, the condition of the caravan was declared to be mleh, which is the Arabic equivalent for "fit.

In the thickest spruce the partridges were humped into round balls of feathers.

" "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!