25 Verbs to Use for the Word bumps

He rudely and unceremoniously bumps away all sober reflection,(I wonder whether the phrenological Spurzheim ever felt the bumps of a blue-bottle!)

" "I can feel a head now," I told him, "and it's got a good bump on it.

This was hard and sandy, as are many of the roads through the forests in that part of the country, and it would have been a very good driving road, had it not been for the occasional protrusion of tree roots, which gave the wheels a little bump, and for the branches which, now and then, hung down somewhat too low for the comfort of a lady and gentleman, riding in a rather high spring-wagon without a cover.

He dozed off for some time, and, all of a sudden, he was awakened by hearing something going "thumpity-thump-bump-bump-bump!

She heard him humming in the next room, heard him moving about, heard the bump of his shoes on the floor.

Toward evening when there came a gentle bump upon Gadabout's guard and the rattle of a chain upon her cleat, we went out to see what the supply boat had brought.

" To which Kelly replied, fingering a bump on his forehead with a rueful grin, "All's well that ends well, my son, and sure it's a pleasure to serve you.

They flew off bumps and jolted around curves for five or six miles.

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

This is not altogether the most easy-looking dish to cut when it is put before a carver for the first time; there is not much real difficulty in the operation, however, when the head has been attentively examined, and, after the manner of a phrenologist, you get to know its bumps, good and bad.

It is true that the unfeeling man who reported the Torpid races for "Bell's Life" had the unkindness to state in cold print; "Worcester succeeded in making the bump at the Cherwell, in consequence of No. 3 of the Brazenface boat suffering from fatigue."

Just now Jetson was nursing a bump to his vanity.

A bullet struck the door a sounding thump and all but penetrated, raising a bump on the inner face of its thick oaken panels; and Victor shut the slide and turned back.

The bobsled seemed fairly to leap the series of gentle slopes that lay at the foot of the long hill, and for every rise Betty and Bob received a bump that would have jarred the bones of less enthusiastic sportsmen.

Then Riccon sat up and rubbed the bump on his crown.

Occasionally the car struck a bump and skidded dangerously.

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.

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

Your bump of ingenuity has for the moment absorbed your bump of veracity; but I say, my dear, I wonder if they'll speak?" "Speak?"

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

Indiscreet talk has upset many a politician's apple-carteven the legitimate bumps on the road are not such serious obstacles.

When the savage had got his features together, I said to him, "How you catch um bump, hey?"

Edi, too, wore a drawn face as though he lived on trouble and annoyance only, and his inner wrath goaded him to unpleasant speeches, for he hardly had taken his seat at table, when he looked across at Sally and said: "You can count to-morrow the blue bumps which your friend Erick will carry home with him, when he begins in the morning before church and serves under Churi.

It's a vonder dey did not cut your head off to cure de bump!"

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

25 Verbs to Use for the Word  bumps