| 单词 | stumpy |
| 例句 | ‘And a short stumpy tail grows out of your back just above your bottom. There is no cure for ratitis. I ought to know. I’m a doctor.’ Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z The only thing about her that was clear in his mind was her feet—stumpy, very soft and white with puffy toes. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z As the young officer entered and stepped aside, there emerged from behind him a short stumpy guard with enormous arms and shoulders. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z The infection did not spread into the bone and within three months, new skin healed over the stumpy finger. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z When he flew, his body, so long and graceful on the ground, took on the appearance of a thick, stumpy cylinder, from the front of which his red beak projected between his round black eyes. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z She flew past a valley of boulders and stumpy trees and found a stream flowing from the mouth of a cave. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z But as they plodded along the dirt road past wide stumpy fields, her last hopes died. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z Doli, short and stumpy, almost as broad as he was tall, wore a rust-colored leather jacket and stout, knee-high boots. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z They sent a different bus to get her, one that was stumpy and brown. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z It has a black-and-red-checked pattern and falls right above my knee, which is the perfect length for me, because anything longer makes me look stumpy. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z The first exit takes me to a bunch of stumpy office buildings with half-empty parking lots. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z “Okay, Todd,” he whimpers, yelping each time he wags his stumpy tail. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z Mister Brannon held out his white, stumpy hands and balanced them like they was on scales. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z It entered a cluster of gray sage that must have seemed like a tall forest to the stumpy little thing. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z There was no distinctive point about her on which he could fasten his attention, and his gaze glided from her pale brown hair to the stumpy outline of her feet beneath the cover. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z A stumpy, gnarled beast, alone in a wide area of open woods. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z She picked up the roll of toilet paper and placed the stumpy doll leg into the center of the cardboard tube. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z I have dark hair and a wide jaw and stumpy legs; Mom has loose blond curls, a narrow chin, and legs like a supermodel. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z Both topped six feet, and Idiptu was bloated like a blimp, waddling on his stumpy bowed legs. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z The stumpy arm is still an issue, but the faceplate was the main source of leaks. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z My left arm was pinned against my body, while the stumpy arm of the suit bounced freely. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Our teacher, balding, stumpy Mr. Warren, clears his throat. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z He sank down on a chair in a trembling stupor, his stumpy, lax hands quaking in his lap. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z On a camp cot in a corner was a boy without legs whose trousers were folded and pinned beneath his stumpy thighs. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z “He was the bravest of us all. Though my stumpy friend here can do surprising things with an axe.” The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z Of course, the famous woman poet at my college lived with another woman—a stumpy old Classical scholar with a cropped Dutch cut. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z I paint a girl in a circus freak show with wide, stumpy legs and a face shaped like a perfect circle. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z At each turn of the road there were great standing stones that had been carved in the likeness of men, huge and clumsy-limbed, squatting cross-legged with their stumpy arms folded on fat bellies. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z And what about the gaping hole on the stumpy arm? The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Instead the Bull took a giant step back, grinned evilly, and turned toward a stumpy circle of stones that Virgil had never noticed before. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z When Grant came to Washington to take overall command of the Union armies in early 1864, he struck one officer as “stumpy, unmilitary, slouchy.” Ulysses S. Grant: New Biography of ‘A Nobody From Nowhere’ 2016-10-19T04:00:00Z Her eye gleefully seeks the unsavory — the "glistening snail trail" of mucous, "horrible stumpy gnawed-off nails." Hilary Mantel's short-story collection long on controversy 2014-10-03T04:00:00Z It’s also, by far, the most unforgiving, despite a cartoon facade of stumpy characters, colorful environs and bouncy sound effects. ‘Spelunky’ Review: A Punishing Platformer That’s Always Changing 2012-07-05T17:37:40Z Really, they are big creatures with no wings at all, but which can controlledly defy gravity, scaly skin, a horn on their nose and two on their necks, short stumpy legs and they breathe wind. Your stories: Dragons are not what you expect them to be by Ellathebookworm 2013-01-11T09:00:00Z In Barcelona, somewhere along the tracks where my mom's train would be chugging along, I discovered a log creature with a face and four stumpy legs. Embracing my family's quirky holiday traditions from far away 2021-12-25T05:00:00Z I fell to my knees, wiped my face with the stuff, pushed back up and reached the top of the slide looking like a stumpy bog monster. In Nova Scotia, tidal-bore rafting offers a uniquely muddy adventure 2017-01-26T05:00:00Z In person, Shaver is gracious, posing for pictures, even stopping in a parking lot to playfully show a fan’s children his stumpy fingers. Billy Joe Shaver invented outlaw country music. Why is he still rambling around Texas in a van? 2017-05-25T04:00:00Z Rutherfurd does provide good glimpses of Paris as it was, like the old Knights Templar fortress and a stumpy Eiffel Tower halfway finished. Novel traces fates Paris families over centuries 2013-04-30T11:32:14Z Along the rocks are baobabs, those, fat, stumpy trees, and fig and palm trees. Q&A: The Drama of Namibia’s Dunes 2012-09-07T15:47:41Z Which also fails, and the patient – bleeding, stumpy and stinking – dies in agony. TV review: World Without End; Blandings 2013-01-12T22:55:01Z The concert and special-events venue sits on a wide block of stumpy converted spaces, across from an Apple support store. Standing Up for Bernie Sanders 2015-11-30T05:00:00Z An herbivore that was loosely related to horses, the statue looked something like a horse with stumpy snout. A Victorian Dinosaur Park Finds Its Way in the 21st Century 2023-07-14T04:00:00Z He reached into Hideg’s stash of percussion instruments and kept rhythm on cowbell and a set of stumpy sticks called claves. A 91-year-old drummer meets John Densmore of the Doors, and the music soars 2023-01-29T05:00:00Z And I navigated my new reality with some self-deprecation, describing myself with words like one-legged, stumpy and wobbly to circle around the truth: I was disabled. How I Came Out About My Disability 2020-07-13T04:00:00Z While the White House is frantically pointing stumpy fingers at China as the real killers, the Trump Organization continues to do billions in business with China. Racism meets warmongering: Far-right GOP senators push xenophobic bill to bar Chinese students 2020-05-30T04:00:00Z While the White House is frantically its pointing stumpy fingers at China as the real killers, the Trump Organization continues to do billions in business with China. Donald Trump's scapegoat hunt: Blame China, blame Fauci, blame the governors 2020-04-14T04:00:00Z We went through a security gate, down a winding road lined with stumpy palm trees—remnants of a bygone Fellowship experiment—then past a field of idle, sloe-eyed camels. How Natural Wine Became a Symbol of Virtuous Consumption 2019-11-18T05:00:00Z And it’s a name that sounds infinitely better in French, as it translates, roughly, as “short-stalked and stumpy”. Forget granny smiths – here are 10 great apples you need to try 2019-10-09T04:00:00Z When the price of transporting the originals from Venice turned out to be prohibitive, she remade them instead, taking the opportunity to finesse their proportions: “The neck was too stumpy.” Woman of Steel 2019-09-10T04:00:00Z While this tower leans in one direction, its stumpier partner tilts in another, forming what the developer optimistically calls “a dance of sleek giants”. Horror on the Hudson: New York's $25bn architectural fiasco 2019-04-09T04:00:00Z The sooner we accept that Trump is planning to block the report, the more prepared we’ll be for the fight to pry it from his sweaty, stumpy fingers. How far will Trump go to suppress the Mueller report? Probably all the way 2019-04-03T04:00:00Z It’s not the greyness, though I have realised that 90% of my wardrobe is grey and unless I dress carefully, I look like a stumpy column of house dust. Glad to be grey: Is it time to embrace the real me? 2019-03-31T04:00:00Z He could have been a character from a fairy tale, Chore Boy, innocent and archetypal, his stumpy arm beckoning the consumer toward some enchanted land. “Audition” 2018-09-03T04:00:00Z That river was appropriately named, says Jeff Clark, who hopes to never again bump his way across the stumpy stream. Mitchell’s River Riders close in on 30th year 2018-05-05T04:00:00Z It’s a stumpy and extremely maneuverable little thing, which happens to be just perfectly designed for my style of grip and use. Verge Editor’s Choice: Roccat Kone Pure 2018-01-30T05:00:00Z Within the course, holes lie among what have been described as "stumpy dunes." Ranking: World's 100 Greatest Golf Courses - Golf Digest 2018-01-11T05:00:00Z Now standpipes — the ubiquitous stumpy structures that firefighters use to get water to the upper floors of tall buildings — are finally getting their due. 'Standpipes of New York' 2017-05-18T04:00:00Z He delivered a launch angle/exit velocity dissertation last week while sipping yellow fluid from stumpy jars in order to maximize hydration. Ryan Zimmerman fielding advice from all circles 2017-02-20T05:00:00Z This is the president-elect of the United States jabbing a stumpy thumb into the eye of civil rights activists, voting rights activists, and minority voters writ large. Donald Trump’s atrocious attorney general pick: Jeff Sessions will roll back voting rights and civil rights 2016-11-18T05:00:00Z A guide is necessary to scale the Sugarloaf itself, but its stumpier twin, the Morro da Urca, is doable without help. Guide to visiting Rio for the Olympics, from safety to samba 2016-07-06T04:00:00Z The dog-sized rodent – native to South America and resembling a large, tailless beaver with stumpy legs – was lured into a metal cage on Sunday evening in one corner of a 400-acre park in the city. Fugitive capybara captured in Toronto park 19 days after zoo escape 2016-06-13T04:00:00Z Every so often, hundreds of corgis will gather on a beach for a day full of surf, sun, stumpy legs and fluffy butts. Upcoming Corgi Beach Meetup Causes Lots of Drama on Facebook 2015-09-09T04:00:00Z The tusk of Odobenus is a modified, elongated canine, but the canine of A. akamatsui is quite wide and stumpy in comparison. Tuskless 10 Million Year-Old Walrus Ancestor Discovered In Japan 2015-08-06T04:00:00Z And maneuvers its stumpy, webbed limbs like this: Meet the adorable tiny octopus that may soon be known as “Opisthoteuthis adorabilis” 2015-06-16T04:00:00Z Not even two storeys tall, the concourse has a low-hung roof, held up by stumpy, inelegant columns and dotted with air conditioning ducts, fluorescent lights and security cameras enclosed in smoke-glass half-domes. How Penn Station saved New York's architectural history - BBC News 2015-05-27T04:00:00Z The pavement follows the shoreline of Stumpy Point Bay to a spot that is sort of blunt, or stumpy. Stumpy Point seeking solution to recurring flooding problem 2015-02-14T05:00:00Z Its legs were short and stumpy, but its feet were very large with hooves, which would have prevented it from sinking into the boggy wetlands where it lived. Mystery of giant arm dinosaur solved 2014-10-22T04:00:00Z The gator’s stumpy front legs support a wooden beverage tray. SC facility processes alligator for area hunters 2014-10-12T04:00:00Z One woman is described as "rather stumpy" and "businesslike looking", while another is told: "And you're as fit as you ever were. That's the way it goes." When did 'fit' start to mean attractive? 2014-06-11T04:00:00Z Libeskind's own jagged spear of a tower, meanwhile, has become a stumpy obelisk by the global giant SOM. 9/11 Memorial Museum: an emotional underworld beneath Ground Zero 2014-05-14T04:00:00Z Shortly afterwards, it becomes clear that this corgi is a formidable foe, stumpy legs and all. Heroic Corgi Defends Grass Against Menacing Goats 2014-04-22T20:06:12Z Pete Rose hobbles around on his aging stumpy body, paying for being a knucklehead when baseball caught him betting on his team’s games, as a manager. Sports of The Times: Bedeviled by Life’s Curveballs, Rodriguez Misses the Guideposts 2013-08-04T20:06:24Z Sure, the ruins of both include some of the stumpy columns and knee-high suggestions of what once were walls. King Herod Is Ready For His Close-Up 2013-02-21T06:35:00Z Looks like old stumpy is not only a murdering liar but also has jealousy and self entitlement issues. Oscar Pistorius Recounts Timeline of Girlfriend Shooting 2013-02-19T22:50:22Z Their short, stumpy tails and bad countenances came near drawing the fire of one of the pieces. A Breeze from the Woods, 2nd Ed. 2012-04-23T02:00:29.820Z They appear even more powerful than they are, since all lie low in the water and have enormous, stumpy funnels from which the black smoke rolls in clouds. Submarine U93 2012-04-07T02:00:34.693Z The first chapel on the right, which is low and vaulted, with stumpy pillars, is covered with frescoes relating to S. Onofrio. Walks in Rome 2012-03-31T02:00:36.010Z Orlean's brother-in-law had come to Chicago several years previous from a stumpy farm in the backwoods of Tennessee. The Conquest The Story of a Negro Pioneer 2012-03-26T02:00:32.910Z That's why Bruin goes about with a stumpy tail to this day. The Ice Queen 2012-03-22T02:00:40.843Z I can see them; little stumpy blackish legs sticking out from their soft white body! Insect Stories 2012-03-21T02:00:36.600Z The tower was square and stumpy, and had served as a haven of refuge more than once. A Safety Match 2012-03-19T02:00:23.817Z Though just able to grasp a paddle with his stumpy fingers, he was an expert kayaker and threw his javelin with the left hand. True Tales of Arctic Heroism in the New World 2012-03-13T02:00:24.640Z The Vizier, as usual, concluded his speech with a weary smile, drew back his mocking lips, and exposed his black, stumpy teeth. The Slaves of the Padishah 2012-03-06T03:00:24.060Z "An easy way to lose forty-three cents," I thought, feeling a little sore at the stumpy man, and going out through the door slowly. Steel The Diary of a Furnace Worker 2012-02-21T03:00:18.360Z After the fallen growth has sufficiently dried out it is burned off and the stumpy field usually planted to corn. Prowling about Panama 2012-02-11T03:04:04.040Z His face turned from red to purple, his wig came half off, and his whole stumpy figure looked so ridiculous that the lady in the bed burst out laughing. A Russian Gentleman 2012-02-08T03:00:18.800Z Billy was a small boy of ten; he was thin and wiry, had a freckled face, and a good deal of short, rather stumpy red hair. The Little Princess of Tower Hill 2012-02-06T03:00:11.547Z Her iron deck was level, the stumpy pole masts ran upright into the drifting mist, and a column of black smoke floated sluggishly from her rusty funnel. For Jacinta 2012-01-27T03:00:20.840Z A stumpy man in a chair looked up and said: "What number?" Steel The Diary of a Furnace Worker 2012-02-21T03:00:18.360Z “My hands were very full,” said the baron, displaying his stumpy fingers. Checkmate 2012-01-03T03:00:10.887Z Joe wagged a stumpy tail in acknowledgment of the advice, but dashed out, snarling, as Clay opened the door and gained the deck. The River Motor Boat Boys on the St. Lawrence The Lost Channel 2012-01-02T03:00:21.167Z The best way to commence is to knead up a double handful of soft clay until thoroughly mixed, ball it, and then form a stumpy cylinder, gradually elongating by rolling out on the bat. Pottery, for Artists Craftsmen & Teachers 2011-12-10T03:00:15.097Z He had a short stumpy figure and a short stumpy face. Out of the Air 2011-11-21T03:00:14.460Z The latter are, generally speaking, short, fat, stumpy guns, as compared with the long, slender field guns. Marvels of Scientific Invention An Interesting Account in Non-technical Language of the Invention of Guns, Torpedoes, Submarine Mines, Up-to-date Smelting, Freezing, Colour Photography, and many other recent Discoveries of Science 2011-11-19T03:00:24.517Z He was pointing out each object, on which he descanted, with his stumpy finger, his hands being, I am bound to admit, by no means clean. Checkmate 2012-01-03T03:00:10.887Z Some of these are long and narrow; others are short and stumpy. Alone with the Hairy Ainu or, 3,800 miles on a pack saddle in Yezo and a cruise to the Kurile Islands. 2011-10-30T02:00:10.270Z Louie was glad she had looked insolently at those stumpy hands.... The Story of Louie 2011-10-26T02:00:27.053Z The ship was of about 7000 tons, single funnelled, and with two stumpy masts with telescopic topmasts and a sheaf of derricks to each. The Wireless Officer 2011-10-24T02:00:17.560Z Felix kept his eyes fixed on the top of that stumpy chimney, and his gunstock was already fast against his shoulder. Rocky Mountain Boys Camping in the Big Game Country 2011-10-21T02:00:18.430Z One of them entered the tower, and presently hoisted a signal from the stumpy flagstaff. The Fight for Constantinople A Story of the Gallipoli Peninsula 2011-10-04T02:00:17.837Z The nose is short and stumpy, they have very heavy eyebrows, and the eyes are almost lost under the shadow of their projecting forehead. Alone with the Hairy Ainu or, 3,800 miles on a pack saddle in Yezo and a cruise to the Kurile Islands. 2011-10-30T02:00:10.270Z Mrs. Lovenant-Smith's face was wrinkled like a dried apple, and the hand, though beautifully kept, was wrinkled too, and had, moreover, rather stumpy nails. The Story of Louie 2011-10-26T02:00:27.053Z But the dog stood momentarily still and wagged his stumpy tail, then galloped after the car again, to make up for lost time. Natalie: A Garden Scout 2011-09-18T02:00:30.203Z Mr. Pottle tried to ignore Pershing, to pretend that there was no connection between them, but Pershing reared up on stumpy hind legs and sought to embrace Mr. Meacham. The Sin of Monsieur Pettipon and other humorous tales 2011-09-17T02:00:25.067Z The little un, however, did not think of the consequences, and quickly seizing Turk’s stumpy tail between his teeth, he soon pulled the old dog out of his dreams. The Young Dragoon Every Day Life of a Soldier 2011-08-31T02:01:26.737Z His nose, with its large nostrils, was stumpy and covered with hair, while his enormous projecting eyes were restless and fierce. Alone with the Hairy Ainu or, 3,800 miles on a pack saddle in Yezo and a cruise to the Kurile Islands. 2011-10-30T02:00:10.270Z Away on the other side rose a blue mountain, a steep but stumpy cone. Sea and Sardinia 2011-08-28T02:00:30.857Z Then she buttoned down her stumpy tail, and waddled off truffle-hunting. Lives of the Fur Folk 2011-08-20T02:00:13.820Z They are stumpy plants, growing from a foot to three feet or so in height, and a foot or more in diameter, like a thickset post. Hunting in Many Lands The Book of the Boone and Crockett Club 2011-08-20T02:00:11.973Z It may be that of a broad stumpy hand, or of a long thin one; it may be large or small; it may even show lines corresponding to the principal creases of the palm. Finger Prints 2011-08-07T02:00:07.827Z The relic stands seven feet high, and now it held a vanishing patch of snow on each stumpy arm. A West Country Pilgrimage 2011-08-05T02:00:48.947Z And away on the south, on the sea-level, numerous short windmills are turning their sails briskly, windmill after windmill, rather stumpy, spinning gaily in the blue, silent afternoon, among the salt-lagoons stretching away towards Marsala. Sea and Sardinia 2011-08-28T02:00:30.857Z She might stamp as much as she pleased at the stumpy tail protruding from her nursery—nothing would turn Stubbs aside from his purpose. Lives of the Fur Folk 2011-08-20T02:00:13.820Z He finished it all and looked round briskly at me, licking his lips and twiddling his stumpy tail. Jock of the Bushveld 2011-08-04T02:00:24.987Z He saw a stumpy, stout-looking little girl standing on the path, and Pilot barring her way. A Very Naughty Girl 2011-07-27T02:00:30.947Z Our New England fathers had as kindly a feeling for this blithe comer to their stumpy meadows, though they gave him the uncouth and malodorous name of skunk blackbird. In New England Fields and Woods 2011-07-27T02:00:26.953Z He was a stumpy, red-headed man, and very "percussion" in his decisions—gave very short or no reasons for them—and like Longbow, didn't know a technicality from a sign-post. The Puddleford Papers, Or Humors of the West 2011-07-12T02:00:33.027Z She ran up the hedge as fast as her stumpy legs could carry her, stubbing her nose against hemlock stalks, and tripping over bramble trailers. Lives of the Fur Folk 2011-08-20T02:00:13.820Z He took no notice when I called his name, but at the touch of my hand his ears moved up and the stumpy tail scraped feebly in the dead leaves. Jock of the Bushveld 2011-08-04T02:00:24.987Z The feet are plum-coloured, and the stumpy tail, which is almost hidden by the wings, is snow-white. In the Andamans and Nicobars The Narrative of a Cruise in the Schooner "Terrapin" 2011-06-30T02:00:24.487Z Perched above the junction of the tripods was a large square structure whence the fire-control arrangements were conducted, while a stumpy topmast completed the incongruity. Rounding up the Raider A Naval Story of the Great War 2011-06-24T02:00:25.163Z With the end of a bough, used as a maul, he was driving four stumpy stakes at right angles into the pine-needle strewn floor of the hut. The Disturbing Charm 2011-06-17T02:00:21.077Z It was his turn, but what I had failed in, it was not likely his little, fat, stumpy paws would achieve. The Palace in the Garden 2011-06-17T02:00:20.540Z There were also some golden hairs sticking on the stumpy end of a broken branch, which may have had something to do with Jock’s scraped sides. Jock of the Bushveld 2011-08-04T02:00:24.987Z Early in our visit, we one morning met with a mishap when landing in our stumpy dinghy through some more than usually heavy surf. In the Andamans and Nicobars The Narrative of a Cruise in the Schooner "Terrapin" 2011-06-30T02:00:24.487Z His person was generally unclean; his coarse, stumpy hands were sickening to look upon. Lodges in the Wilderness 2011-06-15T02:00:17.057Z He put out his stumpy hand, tapping her shoulder. The Salamander 2011-06-10T02:00:22.890Z He had seen some one disappear into the summer-house, and he thought he recognised the stumpy figure. Old Kensington 2011-05-29T02:00:09.797Z On shore they are just as ferocious, and the way they hurry their stumpy little legs over the ground would astonish you. Sawdust & Spangles Stories & Secrets of the Circus 2011-05-27T02:00:18.113Z And as Major Seymour poured himself out a glass of port, a face came into his mind—the face of a stumpy, uncouth man with deep-set eyes. Men, Women and Guns 2011-05-27T02:00:17.367Z One study looked at the games of Belding’s ground squirrels, stumpy little rodents that frolic in the alpine meadows of western USA. So you think you know why animals play... 2011-05-17T16:15:00.220Z His right hand was rather broad, he had cheek-bones like the men in the street, and he looked quite stumpy by Dagobert's side. Royal Highness 2011-05-05T02:00:22.363Z The girl watched him for an instant—a hasty, stumpy figure going up and down, and up and down again. Old Kensington 2011-05-29T02:00:09.797Z She was short and stumpy, with scrambled red hair and a freckled face and the very keenest sense of humor I had ever known. At Boarding School with the Tucker Twins 2011-05-04T02:00:13.920Z The question seemed superfluous—almost foolish; but something in the eyes of the man facing him, something in his short, stumpy, uncouth figure interested him. Men, Women and Guns 2011-05-27T02:00:17.367Z Anthony pointed a stumpy finger to indicate the direction. For the School Colours 2011-04-28T02:00:12.693Z Her light blue eyes and little stumpy nose were quite charming in their way, while the plait of long, fair hair over the shoulders gave her an air of childish innocence. Dry Fish and Wet Tales from a Norwegian Seaport 2011-04-24T02:00:08.440Z Two more stumpy leather-gaiters, greeting each other, looked up as he drove by, and grinned. Old Kensington 2011-05-29T02:00:09.797Z It is built in the usual Hispano-American style, with a big dome, and two stumpy towers on either side of the centre. Cuba Past and Present 2011-04-16T02:00:18.193Z The road for two or three miles kept up from the river and led us by three or four rough, stumpy farms. Wake-Robin 2011-04-01T02:00:36.187Z You must make up your mind to get stout this summer—indeed I have an idea we shall both be corpulent old folks with triple chins and stumpy thumbs. Letters of John Keats to His Family and Friends 2011-03-30T02:00:14.620Z Beyond the pool was our high field, over which the stumpy spire of the church could be seen, at about a mile and a half distant, cutting the silver line of the sea. Story of My Life, volumes 1-3 2011-03-20T02:00:26.607Z Here a vision of a stumpy young man flourishing a tankard rose before him. Old Kensington 2011-05-29T02:00:09.797Z A dark slab of muck tuck, or blubber, was dangling from her stumpy jib boom. The Ice Pilot 2011-03-09T03:00:48.433Z His body was long and his legs were short, stumpy, and out of proportion. Settling Day 2011-03-08T03:00:36.623Z Old Matt smiled feebly, and drew forth his old memorandum-book, and slowly opening it, showed the worn stumpy piece of pencil inside. Mad A Story of Dust and Ashes 2011-02-25T03:01:05.303Z Bang killed a rat in the steading just before we left, and he wagged his stumpy tail and tried to raise his tattered ear all the way home. Betty Grier 2011-02-24T03:01:04.507Z I get it in position and, in a miracle of dexterity, screw it in despite the small space, stumpy screws and chunky fingers. Geek sports 2011-02-03T12:11:34Z Men with excessively slim, long bodies and limbs can find beauty in a body which is even beyond measure stumpy and short…. Boon, The Mind of the Race, The Wild Asses of the Devil, and The Last Trump; Being a First Selection from the Literary Remains of George Boon, Appropriate to the Times 2011-01-16T03:00:20.530Z In overtime, the stumpy Zuccarello emerged from behind the net and whipped a shot under the eaves of the goal to win the game. Sports of The Times: Pond or Rink, Rangers Create Their Own Winter Classic 2011-01-07T01:55:26Z A stream of sweat would be falling from us before we stopped—hairful little lassies and stumpy little fellows. The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries 2011-01-06T03:00:47.543Z Guys hospital, the Shard's next-door neighbour, for a long time the tallest building in the area, now looks a bit stumpy. In the shadow of the Shard 2010-10-27T15:01:00Z The S400's electronic transmission is operated by a stumpy lever on the steering column. Review: 2010 Mercedes-Benz S400 Hybrid 2010-07-20T20:24:00Z Among the birds, there are flightless cormorants, which have stumpy little wings; and, famously, there are several unique species of finch. 2010-02-02T23:33:00Z She started, and then crouched down behind a stumpy bush. The Undying Past This time the batsman, a stumpy person, not possessed of the Scrabbler's reach, played back, and succeeded in returning the ball to the bowler. "Pip" A Romance of Youth Our progress with our short, stumpy sledges was nothing very great, and of water suitable for paddling in we found less and less. Farthest North Being the Record of a Voyage of Exploration of the Ship 'Fram' 1893-1896 The tail is about ten inches in length, exclusive of the long hair and is very stumpy and bushy. Science of Trapping Describes the Fur Bearing Animals, Their Nature, Habits And Distribution, With Practical Methods For Their Capture Then, before the young lady could realize it, one of the stumpy arms had stolen round her waist. A Poached Peerage "Yes——" "A small, rather stumpy young lady," I pursued. Miss Million's Maid A Romance of Love and Fortune He was almost the last man in the charge, but not to his shame, rather to his stumpy legs. Last Words He was a short, stumpy, queer-looking man, past the middle age, with a head as bald as an egg, and ears that stood out in bold relief behind his temples. Father Brighthopes An Old Clergyman's Vacation Looks like a gunboat with rows of cannon all around her—queer, stumpy little cannon, that have wheels above their mouths. Careers of Danger and Daring He was very short and shaggy and stumpy. The Duchess of Wrexe Her Decline and Death; A Romantic Commentary Curious fingers he had, stumpy and thick and clumsy as if covered with ragged gloves, wholly unequal to the delicate task. Where the Pavement Ends “I should like to be a bird,” said Fin, placing one foot on an excrescence of a stumpy pollard oak, and, making a jump, she caught hold of a low bough. Thereby Hangs a Tale Volume One Around the table were seats as miscellaneous in quality as was the service; there were three-legged stools, stumpy logs of wood set on end, one very large stone, and one elegant piano chair. Tried for Her Life A Sequel to "Cruel As the Grave" The Mongol is of middle height, but his great leathern boots and large sheep-skin robe, seem to take away from his height, and make him appear diminutive and stumpy. Travels in Tartary, Thibet, and China During the years 1844-5-6. Volume 1 [of 2] As for the old bald-headed gentlemen, some of them very short and stumpy, they looked painfully like a collection of 'senators' in some opera bouffe. The Galaxy, April, 1877 Vol. XXIII.—April, 1877.—No. 4. Nightmare colossi strode bellowing through the murk, and amorphous gray things like giant slugs walked upright on stumpy legs. The Secret of Kralitz ‘And the dicky-bird sang in the tree,’” she trilled out, as step by step she drew herself up into the crown of the stumpy, gnarled pollard. Thereby Hangs a Tale Volume One And young Robinson's nose looked more turned-up, and more stumpy than she had noticed before. The New Warden He patted the stock of the stumpy little gun he held. Sinister Paradise But why has that been omitted which followed of course, and by the omission of which the above extract is made to conclude with abruptness—to read, as it were, broken off, stumpy? Punch - Volume 25 (Jul-Dec 1853) For a little way the river was bordered with stumpy clearings; then the dark hemlock and jack-pine woods closed down on the shores. Northern Diamonds Everywhere could be seen tall women and stumpy men, lively-faced girls, and youths whose expressions never changed from sunrise to sunset. Library of the World's Best literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 12 You are a pretty fellow, tall and slim, with a neck like a swan, hands like a queen, and a stumpy nose that can not be equalled for beauty. Tales of the Caravan, Inn, and Palace He was scarcely more than half a head taller than Felix; but he was stumpy and thick-set, and his little weasened legs formed an astonishing contrast with his body, which was stout and powerful. The Serapion Brethren, Vol. I. A skinned bear looks like a great big-bodied man with long arms and stumpy legs.” Our Southern Highlanders It was black, with short stumpy fingers, the nails almost worn down into the flesh. Ditte: Girl Alive! A stumpy black shape, it was, with a short barrel of cold blue steel, and it looked as much out of place in that chamber as did the fur-clad man who stared half-unbelievingly at it. Astounding Stories, July, 1931 A warrant was issued, and Dave McLendon, the sheriff of the county, a stumpy little man, whose boldness and prudence made him the terror of criminals, was sent to serve it. Free Joe and Other Georgian Sketches "Babe," a direct contrast to his brother, being thick-necked, stumpy and dark, had not failed to garner his share of the rich harvest. The Plow-Woman All were of small size, with small doors and windows, and huge, stumpy chimneys. The Lily and the Cross A Tale of Acadia The idlers speculated concerning those bells, and a dozen pair of eyes witnessed the emergence of the vehicle into the little stumpy street. Cedar Creek From the Shanty to the Settlement It was broad and red, and the fingers were thick and stumpy, with very coarse deep wrinkles at every joint. Ten Thousand a-Year. Volume 1. It stood about five feet tall, and it walked upon its hind legs in human fashion, but the legs were short and stumpy, ending in feet with five toes of equal length. The People of the Crater He tottered weakly on his stumpy legs using all four of his arms to support himself against the bulkhead. Before Egypt They are small stumpy little rooms,—"but mine own." The Landleaguers But, alas! the little stumpy street was dull and empty as usual; not even the embryo of a mob; no flaring post-bills soliciting votes; the majesty of the people and of the law wholly unrepresented. Cedar Creek From the Shanty to the Settlement A pair of huge spectacles, mounted on a somewhat stumpy nose, peered absently from side to side as he approached. Unfinished Portraits Stories of Musicians and Artists But every now and then he would turn to look at Moggy, and put out his tongue and waggle his stumpy tail from side to side on the carpet. The Bountiful Lady or, How Mary was changed from a very Miserable Little Girl to a very Happy One It has no redeeming feature, but is short, and square, and fat, with stumpy fingers and hideous, spatulate nails, the very sight of which makes me shudder. Byways of Ghost-Land A shrill yell had run along the double line of houses, and out into the stumpy street now swarmed men armed with hastily seized weapons. The Pathless Trail Two big birds with stumpy legs and top-heavy beaks, solemnly prancing and manœuvring before one another with an accompaniment of valiant gobbles and a punctuation of occasional pecks—a gleesome spectacle. The Strand Magazine, Volume V, Issue 27, March 1893 An Illustrated Monthly "What business have you here, ye son of a horse-couper?" was the encouraging salutation offered by a solicitor's son to the stumpy little figure bereft of its father and left to fight its battles alone. Young Barbarians Hannah, on the contrary, was the reverse of graceful; stumpy and heavy-footed, she gave an impression of abrupt terminations. Jan and Her Job Why had his own fingers been made so stumpy and square-tipped? Dreamers of the Ghetto This was a massive masonry structure with extremely short, stumpy columns, and strong mouldings, but presenting the main features of the Doric style, as we know it, in its earliest and rudest form. Architecture Classic and Early Christian Even the light breeze of sunset had died away, leaving an unruffled calm, and the sails and stumpy funnels of the little fishing craft appeared like "painted ships on a painted ocean." Submarine Warfare of To-day How the Submarine Menace was Met and Vanquished, With Descriptions of the Inventions and Devices Used, Fast Boats, Mystery Ships She was stumpy, high bowed, low waisted, with a short black funnel. The Island Mystery As a matter of fact, the body in a comparatively short time grows a new tail, which, however, is much shorter and stumpier than the old one. Boy Scouts Handbook The First Edition, 1911 He is a snake that averages from three to four feet long, and is very thick, with a big head and a stumpy tail. The Soul of a People One curious feature is the parapet of the central aisle, which is like a row of small classical pedestals, each bearing a stumpy obelisk. Portuguese Architecture The beautiful woods have given place to a charred, stumpy, muddy waste, on which stand the gaunt, new frame-houses. Brighter Britain! (Volume 1 of 2) or Settler and Maori in Northern New Zealand He was wagging his stumpy tail, anyway; but one can always give a dog the benefit of a doubt, and she believed that it began to wag more happily. Sunlight Patch Thick cables sagged between stumpy poles like clusters of black snakes, all converging at the mine's entrance. Peter the Brazen A Mystery Story of Modern China Since die he must, Probos Five would meet his end stoically, and five pairs of stumpy arms folded over five chests in a coordinated gesture of resignation. Solar Stiff This utensil would be troublesome to use in an orchard, or on stumpy ground. The Peanut Plant Its Cultivation And Uses It was getting well along in the afternoon when Timmins and Lone Wolf emerged from the thick woods into the stumpy pastures and rough burnt lands that spread back irregularly 263 from the outlying farms. Kings in Exile Its body resembles a huge hogshead perched on four short, stumpy legs. Harper's Young People, March 16, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly The carriage from Trois-Feuilles was also there, a stumpy Alsatian peasant on the box. The Maids of Paradise It was not a place anyone need grieve over losing, an observer might say—a few acres of stumpy, cleared land, an indefinite piece of forest, and an old log cabin. 'Lizbeth of the Dale She walked to it and stood under a stumpy portico, looking out. The Invader A Novel On the left stood the stumpy spire of Bayencourt Church just left by us. Attack An Infantry Subaltern's Impression of July 1st, 1916 The same may be said of the different Cryptocephali, who all have stumpy limbs. The Glow-Worm and Other Beetles Again Esther noticed those stumpy, abbreviated fingers, so oddly at variance with the rest of their owner. Juggernaut My father was sitting at his desk working on the plan of a bungalow with Gothic windows and a stumpy tower like the lookout of a fire-station—an immensely stiff and inartistic design. The House with the Mezzanine and Other Stories He was an old lion with stumpy teeth, but very silent and very cool; he knew of fires before; these were not the first of mankind that had ministered to his old age. Tales of Space and Time Others later made, and always more and more stumpy and square, need a strong pressure of utilitarian conviction to restrain us from pronouncing that they are downright ugly. The Voyage Alone in the Yawl "Rob Roy" This feat is easier to describe than to accomplish, for Tibetan sheep have very short, stumpy tails. An Explorer's Adventures in Tibet The soft cushioned palms spelled love of luxury, the stumpy, curving fingers and talon-like nails indicated acquisitive greed. Juggernaut The floor of the bothy was strewed with heather, somewhat coarse and stumpy, on which we lay down and slept. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, No. 382, October 1847 From his shining snout to his stumpy tail he was a lion and a half, the length of two tall men. Tales of Space and Time We used to change works, as we called it, so as to be together as much as we could; for it was rather lonesome, planting and hoeing off in the stumpy, sprouted clearings. When Life Was Young At the Old Farm in Maine All who masticate coca have a very bad breath, pale lips and gums, greenish and stumpy teeth, and an ugly black mark at the angles of the mouth. Travels in Peru, on the Coast, in the Sierra, Across the Cordilleras and the Andes, into the Primeval Forests They found a few vegetables growing that they had never seen before, and so, collecting twigs from the short, stumpy bushes, they made a fire to cook them. Jewish Fairy Tales and Legends The pup fixed its large brown eyes upon Vernon's face, and attempted to wag its stumpy tail. The Submarine Hunters A Story of the Naval Patrol Work in the Great War Suddenly I noticed a tall man, wearing a tweed cap and a long covert-coat, his hands in his pockets, a stumpy cigar stuck in the corner of his mouth. The Mystery of the Green Ray He was almost sure he could lay his hands on the rabbit’s stumpy white tail. The Later Cave-Men Branches forked and peculiarly stumpy at the ends. The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines What! you little stinted, stunted, stumpy, bile-faced animal, whose nose is for ever running crimson with spite! The Old Man of the Mountain, The Lovecharm and Pietro of Abano Tales from the German of Tieck She had a single funnel painted black, with two broad red bands; two stumpy masts, with derricks, and a lofty bridge and chart-house abaft the funnel. The Submarine Hunters A Story of the Naval Patrol Work in the Great War "See, Hoodie," cried Duke in delight, holding up his stumpy little forefinger, on which birdie was contentedly perched. Hoodie Ugly realistic bowpots with stumpy trees decorated the picture in regular order. Chats on Old Lace and Needlework As the stumpy youths straggled apart, the perspiration on their faces caused them to shine like burnished copper. Camp-fire and Wigwam The other dogs raised sleepy eyes, but seeing Tiger and the girl together, took no notice whatever, except by a thwack or two of their stumpy tails. A World of Girls The Story of a School In place of masts she had four stumpy poles supporting derricks. The Submarine Hunters A Story of the Naval Patrol Work in the Great War Mike noticed that a collar with projecting spikes encircled the stumpy neck, and never was one of his breed more eager to bury his teeth in a victim’s anatomy. The Launch Boys' Adventures in Northern Waters Short, stumpy, with a fringe like the thatch of a newly evicted cottage, such was my appearance at twenty, and such it remains. He Little six-penny dolls, dressed like servant girls, stretch out their arms, little stumpy arms so flimsy that the least breath of air sets them a-tremble. Marguerite His dangling arms resembled the stumpy wings of a penguin. The Goose Man Newhaven! oh, I remember the chap at the House—ploughed twice in Smalls—stumpy fellow, isn't he? Comedies of Courtship A series of short staccato yelps of joy too great to be controlled; a stumpy tail wagging so fast that the eye could scarcely follow it; a dog. Mufti There was no mistaking the stumpy form and the big head of the Herr Professor, whose appearance in Oliva Cresswell's room had so terrified that young lady. The Green Rust Maria was a short, stumpy woman with a slight moustache and a wart on her chin, and was dressed in green satin, cut low to disclose her generous figure. The Book of All-Power Soldiers do wear their hair pretty close, but his head looked quite indecent; and, as for his starshers, they’re like a bit o’ black toothbrush worn stumpy.” The Queen's Scarlet The Adventures and Misadventures of Sir Richard Frayne It was a pity, for she was the stumpier of the two. The Arbiter A Novel "It's a beautiful night, Mr. McGaw," he said to the mate, a stumpy little man with bowed legs, who was pacing to and fro, measuring strides with the regularity of a pendulum. Blow The Man Down A Romance Of The Coast - 1916 The lad produced one and a stumpy pencil. The Opal Serpent They have little stumpy tails, which, when excited, they constantly jerk up and twist about in a curious fashion. The Western World Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North and South America From it one learns that the Dukes, Duchesses, and turf persons generally, frequenting the Heath, are a set of blob-headed stumpy dwarfs.... The Gentle Art of Making Enemies "No, don't sign, please," said a clear voice, and a short, stumpy girl with red hair and freckled face calmly entered the room and stood smilingly before them. Mary Louise Solves a Mystery No, it’s a jolly old stumpy thistle, like the top of a young pineapple. The Crystal Hunters A Boy's Adventures in the Higher Alps She and an exercise book, or a few scraps of paper and a stumpy bit of pencil were to be seen sometimes in very close companionship. An Australian Lassie Their webbed feet are placed very far back, close to the stumpy tail, and so the long body has to stand very straight up in order to balance itself. Chatterbox, 1906 The branches, too, are very odd-looking; they have blunt, stumpy ends, that give the tree a clumsy appearance. The Desert Home The Adventures of a Lost Family in the Wilderness And children now come in the world With half a tail or less; Too stumpy to convey a thought, And meaningless. The Book of Humorous Verse A young lout with a stumpy nose, which had evidently been broken some time or other, a bare breast, and a shock of ragged hair covering his face, answered the question. The Day of Wrath It was a short, stumpy bowl or jar, upon which curious protuberances of all kinds clustered. The Best Short Stories of 1919 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story Not only because of its dense blackness, but its coat was as glossy and thick as that of a little mole, and its shape unusually stumpy and attractive. Black, White and Gray A Story of Three Homes The stumpy grey terrier sitting erect at his post of duty was full of significance and individuality. Doctor Luttrell's First Patient The great leader lay on his side upon the snow, and a full seven feet he stretched from the tip of his nose to the root of his stumpy tail. The Last of the Chiefs A Story of the Great Sioux War The palms of their hands were almost without lines, the finger-nails flat, and their thumbs stumpy with the last phalange curiously short. In the Forbidden Land These are stumpy columns from fourteen to twenty-four inches high. The Journal of Negro History, Volume 6, 1921 They were stumpy in stature, and ragged in form for want of cultivation, or perhaps of congenial soil. Byeways in Palestine The straggling growth of cedars and stumpy evergreens loomed up ahead of them, and they crashed through. Kid Wolf of Texas "But look at its stumpy front legs!" called Jack, who had forgotten his empty stomach in the excitement about this little creature, which looked like a cricket and yet was so different. Little Busybodies The Life of Crickets, Ants, Bees, Beetles, and Other Busybodies At the foot he lost his balance, and the last that Tom saw of him was a flourish of his stumpy tail as he went heels over head to the bottom of the hill. Hunting the Lions Ned’s powers of endurance were tested in this way by the chief of the tribe, an elderly man with a beard so sparse that each stumpy hair might have been easily counted. The Golden Dream Adventures in the Far West The valley became narrower as we went on, and the cliffs at the side were full of long caverns, with great stumpy stalactites and stalagmites, looking like teeth in gigantic mouths. Southern Arabia There on Norah's own particular seat—a mossy stone shaped very like a stumpy armchair—sat the foreign little girl reading a book. The Gap in the Fence The stumpy mast of the Jungle Queen had already gone overboard—he had sawn it off with great labour the day after they had left Cap Martin. The Angel of Terror While I was speaking, the square-headed sails of the lugger were run up on her short, stumpy masts. Will Weatherhelm The Yarn of an Old Sailor They were long, low vessels, entirely decked over, and fitted to pull some twenty oars; they had thick stumpy masts, and long tapering yards, for lateen sails, now stowed fore and aft in the boats. The Pirate of the Mediterranean A Tale of the Sea Nursery games in stumpy green boats were not consonant with his dignity. Priscilla's Spies It had a stiff mane, and a very short stumpy tail, while its body appeared destitute of hair. On the Banks of the Amazon There was lying in Monaco harbour a long white boat with a stumpy mast, which delighted in the name of Jungle Queen. The Angel of Terror I uttered an exclamation of delight as I drew forth and laid gently in my hand a short stumpy bird that must in life have been about as big as a very thick-set pigeon. Nat the Naturalist A Boy's Adventures in the Eastern Seas Several times over little stumpy red mullet were seen—brilliant little fish, and then grey mullet—large-scaled silvery fish with tiny mouths and something the aspect, on a large scale, of a river dace. Menhardoc The oar was short and stumpy with a very narrow blade. Priscilla's Spies The upper windows were stumpy, almost square, some dirty and some clean and curtained, with prominent sills and architraves. Clayhanger Failing in this, he suddenly sprang forward with such force that he managed to seize hold of the short, stumpy tail of the dog in front of him. Winter Adventures of Three Boys The craft in which they carry on their nefarious calling are large junk-like vessels termed “praus,” with short, stumpy masts and huge square sails of woven matting stuff. The Castaways He had taken out of his pocket a stumpy, and very shabby little brown volume of Thomas à Kempis, which was very familiar to her. Thistle and Rose A Story for Girls Not only his leather apron, but the ends of his stumpy fingers, which were discoloured and brown, showed that he was a cobbler by trade. White Lilac; or the Queen of the May A little stumpy black one—about so long?” Etheldreda the Ready A School Story One of the men, short and stumpy, but with shoulders like an ape, was standing on a table boasting about his strength. On the Trail of the Space Pirates It lay among and upon the sharp, low, stumpy pine ridges in haphazard fashion, like a Swiss village. Other Main-Travelled Roads I look around the table here at which I am invited to seat myself, and I perceive nothing but a few stumpy pens and unappetising blotting-paper. Mr. Grex of Monte Carlo Round this central, but, in the poppy, very stumpy, pillar, you find a cluster of dark threads, with dusty pendants or cups at their ends. Proserpina, Volume 1 Studies Of Wayside Flowers He went to a cupboard, and produced a stumpy, but capacious bottle, and three glasses. Jack Harkaway's Boy Tinker Among The Turks Book Number Fifteen in the Jack Harkaway Series The Baron Giraud emerged from the satin-lined recesses of the dainty carriage like a stout caterpillar from a rose, a stumpy little man with no neck and a red face. Dross "I congratulate you, Norton," Montague remarked between pulls at a stumpy briar that was consoling him for muscular fowl and curried leather. The Great Amulet The Deacon is of that large and austere order of persons who "like dogs, in their place"; S.A.B.B. wears his stumpy, little tail at half mast whenever the head of the house is near. Jane Journeys On Then he pulled it out with a strong pull, and it snapped short off, and that's why Bruin goes about with a stumpy tail to this day! Childhood's Favorites and Fairy Stories The Young Folks Treasury, Volume 1 On our way we passed a little stumpy clearing where there was a small, new, very tidy house, neatly shingled and clapboarded, with plots of bright asters and marigolds about the door. A Busy Year at the Old Squire's He was a stumpy boy, who had stopped off short; and you couldn't guess his age, because his face was so much older than his body. Queer Stories for Boys and Girls The Canada porcupine has more hairs than the American, and a shorter and stumpier tail. The Human Side of Animals At the same time the boys saw a man quickly climb up the stumpy mast of the lighter and cling there with one hand while he waved his cap at them with the other. Frank and Andy Afloat The Cave on the Island DESCRIPTION.—Head large and whiskered; form robust; tail stumpy and clad; general colour of the animal brown; whiskers greyish; face nude and flesh-coloured, with a deep crimson flush round the eyes. Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon Coke, who had lighted another black and stumpy cigar, removed it in order to speak with due emphasis. The Stowaway Girl George put his hand upon his purse, and acknowledged to himself that he had been afraid to come down with the stumpy. Can You Forgive Her? It was what we call a tread-snail, because it moves on a double row of pads like stumpy feet and leaves a trail like a tractor. Four-Day Planet One morning, when his mother's back was turned, he was surprised to see that she had only a short and stumpy tail. Among the Farmyard People It was very absurd for one so young and—stumpy—to seem majestic, yet there he stood, truly so. Gideon's Band A Tale of the Mississippi I do not understand these things, not knowing the manner of working in marble; but I can very well tell you that those fingers look to me very stumpy. Michael Angelo Buonarroti He was so enormously wide, almost as wide as he was long, that he would have been funny to Ken but for the reputation that went with the great shoulders and stumpy legs. The Young Pitcher After passing Victoria they wended their way slowly through great plains covered with a stumpy herbage. The Story of Paul Boyton Voyages on All the Great Rivers of the World There were the short stumpy ones, with the small bowls for the brief whiff when one did not choose to keep company with himself for long, but was willing to be sociable for a moment. Joyce of the North Woods The fruit, which hangs on a short thick stalk, may be anything in shape from a melon to a stumpy, irregular cucumber, according to the botanic variety. Cocoa and Chocolate Their History from Plantation to Consumer He came to the step, his tongue hanging out, his stumpy tail wagging. At Home with the Jardines The other was the mighty Plesiosaurus, a serpent with a cylindrical trunk, with a short stumpy tail, with fins like a bank of oars in a Roman galley. A Journey to the Centre of the Earth Their necks are short surmounted by a bird shaped head with a powerful but stumpy bill, the lower part is V shaped into which the upper snugly fits. The Story of Paul Boyton Voyages on All the Great Rivers of the World We jolt across the bumpy field, strike into the back wood-road, and turn off upon an old stumpy track over which cordwood was carted years ago. The Hills of Hingham His face is broad and red, his shiny fat cheeks almost as prominent as his stumpy nose, likewise red and shiny. Nature Near London Suddenly a stumpy little man mounted the tribune. A Mummer's Tale Added to which, she inherits her father's short and somewhat stumpy figure. Vera Nevill Or, Poor Wisdom's Chance Nothing happening, I was about to desist, when suddenly I heard a pattering on the gravel, and turning round I beheld an ugly little black-and-tan mongrel running towards me, wagging its stumpy tail. Animal Ghosts Or, Animal Hauntings and the Hereafter Cuff denied this by a vigorous whack of his stumpy tail. The Shield of Silence The figures are rather stumpy sometimes, and the draperies rather heavy and lacking in delicate grace, but the works are far more numerous than those of other districts, and vary enormously in merit. Arts and Crafts in the Middle Ages A Description of Mediaeval Workmanship in Several of the Departments of Applied Art, Together with Some Account of Special Artisans in the Early Renaissance Its proportions would then appear less stumpy, and we would then be captivated by the beauty of the face. Donatello, by Lord Balcarres "My Claire," I replied with dignity, "is neither stumpy nor stupendous." Dead Man's Rock A cigar smouldered in his stumpy red fingers. Romance Never bite the nails; it not only is a most disagreeable habit, but tends to make the nails jagged, deformed and difficult to clean, besides gives a red and stumpy appearance to the finger-tips. Our Deportment Or the Manners, Conduct and Dress of the Most Refined Society Just as the party prepared to constitute the coroner's court, a stumpy figure on a high stepping horse came riding along. Two Knapsacks A Novel of Canadian Summer Life Four little angels, rather stumpy and ill-drawn, are sitting on the lower plinth. Donatello, by Lord Balcarres Some of the poor devils one meets carry tattered little scraps of paper, and fumble conscientiously with stumpy pencils. Certain Personal Matters With the coming of spring, he helped his father to plow the stumpy ground. Abe Lincoln Gets His Chance There was the ichthyosaurus, a fishlike marine lizard, familiar to us all from a thousand reconstructions, with his long thin body, his strong flippers, his stumpy neck, and his huge pair of staring goggle eyes. Falling in Love With Other Essays on More Exact Branches of Science Killed a green snake with black spots along its back, about four feet long, four to five inches in girt, and with a thick stumpy tail. The History of Sumatra Containing An Account Of The Government, Laws, Customs And Manners Of The Native Inhabitants The one with the very long bill, and the stiff, stumpy tail that he uses for a cane, is the Redpecker. The Garden of the Plynck After a proper quill commend me to a stumpy BB pencil; you get less polish and broader effects, but you are still doing good literature. Certain Personal Matters He sat down on his stumpy tail and howled, Then he laid his jaws on his paws and growled. Verses for Children and Songs for Music His eyes turned with smoldering fire to the stumpy figure on the tip of Point Old. Poor Man's Rock Her tête-à-tête companion was a short, thick, squat, stumpy, dumpy, dumpling of a man, in a round jacket, and very tight striped trousers. Records of a Girlhood All parts of the plant alike are stumpy, green, and cylindrical. Science in Arcady In stature, he was short and stumpy; in person, corpulent; and in countenance, sleek, snub-nosed, and demure. Jack Sheppard A Romance Will thought them stumpy and heavy-looking; and he did not admire the red sails with crooked gaffs, and smiled at the blue pennants, stretched out on stiff frames that turned with the wind. St. Nicholas Magazine for Boys and Girls, Vol. 5, Nov 1877-Nov 1878 Scribner's Illustrated The Rock and the outer nib of the Point are haunted by quarreling flocks of gulls and coots and the black Siwash duck with his stumpy wings and brilliant yellow bill. Poor Man's Rock Now they shook themselves, and rubbed against each other, growling in a warlike manner through their teeth, and wagging peaceably with their little stumpy tails. The Brownies and Other Tales Even while running, the short, stumpy wings were used to aid its flight and steady its body, which rocked, and rolled, and swayed to and fro like a ship in a head sea. The Gold Hunters' Adventures Or, Life in Australia With some difficulty Hannah sought and found an old inkstand, a stumpy pen, and a scrap of paper. Ishmael Or, In the Depths Philip wagged his stumpy tail and frisked about, trying his best to tell the children that he had come out to look for them. Four Little Blossoms and Their Winter Fun He appeared next moving, with the stumpy, ungraceful stride peculiar to the short and thick-bodied, down the walk to a float. Poor Man's Rock If he is also doing any common work, a stumpy brush of bristles and a soft leather will also be requisite, together with a file or two. Handbook on Japanning: 2nd Edition For Ironware, Tinware, Wood, Etc. With Sections on Tinplating and Galvanizing Not even the departure of interfering relatives could bring freedom, for the baby's stumpy arms bound Mary to the house as inexorably as bolts and bars could have done. New Faces He took a stumpy lead-pencil from his pocket, tore a leaf out of his pocket-book, and wrote these words: MY LADY,—You knew the picture, and I know your secret. The Baronet's Bride Then the water came up to his little short, stumpy tail. Uncle Wiggily's Adventures Racquet continued to supplicate her with bowed head, but he gave one surreptitious flick of his stumpy tail, that to me had the irresistible suggestion of a wink. The Jervaise Comedy Her stumpy little pencil—and that, too, seemed always the same—had to do the transfering. Idle Hour Stories A buzzard flapped his heavy wings and flew from a dead tree; a yelping dog ran after the train; a horse, turned out to die, stumbled along a stumpy road. The Colossus A Novel The little woman's stumpy white fingers were very motherly, touching Grey's forehead. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 69, July, 1863 Jonathan loved him,—loved his weepy, smeary eyes, and his rough, black hair, and his fat round body, short stumpy legs, and shorter stumpy tail,—especially the tail. A Gentleman Vagabond and Some Others It was the Rector, a stumpy little man with the purple stock of a monseigneur, who showed the stranger round his church and ended by inviting him to lunch. The Altar Steps Moreover, Julius, the eldest brother, declared that the baby's little stumpy nose made him look like a Hun, and so the name was very appropriate. Uncle Titus and His Visit to the Country The geta is a flat piece of hard wood, about the length of the foot but a little wider, with two stumpy pieces fastened transversely below it. The Foundations of Japan Notes Made During Journeys Of 6,000 Miles In The Rural Districts As A Basis For A Sounder Knowledge Of The Japanese People And he indicated, with stumpy finger, the black band upon his left arm. Flames But, then, she was not really a big girl; her figure was short and stumpy, her features plain and pale with the pallor of her first Indian year. The Golden Scarecrow One day a man was out in a stumpy pasture-field beside a woods in Canada, and he saw a mother caribou and her little calf feeding quietly down in a valley nearby. Fifty-Two Story Talks to Boys and Girls I went out back of the cow barn and looked away down across the stumpy flats. The Light in the Clearing How thankful I was to see his familiar stumpy figure again I need not say. The Pilots of Pomona No. One can get along in that stumpy little boat fine, while with two it is a clumsy affair. The Outdoor Chums on the Gulf There were so many bold children—so many bolder nurses; even the birds on the trees seemed to deride him, and a stumpy fox-terrier puppy stood with its four legs planted wide barking at him. The Golden Scarecrow The end of his stumpy moustache and a little roll of flesh stood out at the side of his hand, and made him somehow twice as pitiful. Mr. Britling Sees It Through Fox wagged his stumpy tail and looked up with knowing eyes. The Mysterious Rider Rowdy's stumpy tail wagged ecstatically as Arnold lavished affection upon him. Boy Scouts in Southern Waters A squadron of corvettes and sloops o' war put their glasses on us lazily as we neared Momba; but with our Dutch bow and stern, our stumpy spars, no self-respecting war-ship was bothering the Triton. Wide Courses Let's see, p'r'aps it don't mean me, after all—'One eye gone, broken nose, scar on right cheek, powder-marks on left, stumpy beard, sallow complexion, hangdog look.' Romance of California Life But according to his grandfather's account, the murdered gamekeeper, on the contrary, was a broadly-built, stumpy man. Harvest His companion nudged him, and by a stab of a stumpy, inky forefinger indicated the verse which he himself was singing in an aggressive treble. The Dark House Again—you will not take it ill— You are, my dear, distinctly dumpy: A flowing cape it's certain will Well—not become one short and stumpy. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, August 15, 1891 The sole outward sign of it was the dirty and stumpy brown-brick shop-front of Mr. Timmis, squeezed in between those massive luxurious façades of stone which Ezra Brunt soon afterwards erected. Tales of the Five Towns He has been riding about all day on his stumpy little Argentine, radiant and beaming, with his eternal pipe in his mouth! In the Ranks of the C.I.V. Douglas was short and stumpy, a regular roly-poly man. The Abolitionists Together With Personal Memories Of The Struggle For Human Rights The red-bearded man's stumpy legs described a half-circle in the air, and he came down on the stone pavement with a sounding crash which shook every particle of breath from his enormous body. The Firm of Girdlestone They vary much in shape, and also in the depth of their ground-tint; some are regular ovals, others are stumpy at the small end, while now and then very spherical eggs are laid. The Nests and Eggs of Indian Birds, Volume 1 She looked at me so one day in church, 'cause I laughed right out at a funny little dog with a stumpy tail running in and right up to Mr. Goldthwaite. Thankful Rest The leader thereof is a stumpy but enormously important-looking private. The First Hundred Thousand He shook his head at the six-pound culprit who stood before him, waggling his stumpy tail in smug satisfaction over the success of his undertaking. Phebe, Her Profession A Sequel to Teddy: Her Book How wise of these small women to wear the kimono which drapes so gracefully their stumpy figures. Kimono Did not, of course, retire, but went into the drawing-room with a gentle rush, a dart between the stumpy pillars. Deadham Hard Cutty means anything short, stumpy, and not of full growth; frequently applied to a short-handled horn spoon. Reminiscences of Scottish Life and Character Beyond there was a narrow clearing, stumpy and rank with briers, on the up-side of the way. D'Ri and I These I discovered to be long, flat, shallow dogs with stumpy legs—a dog which an American has described as "looking as if he was always coming out from under a bureau." As Seen By Me He felt, somehow, as if he were a great, coarse behemoth; his arms seemed to him awkward appendages; his hands suddenly appeared to him rough, and his fingers swelled and stumpy. Pink and White Tyranny A Society Novel As Felicia Verity passed out into the hall, at one end of the avenue of stumpy pillars, Carteret came in at the other end through the garden door. Deadham Hard Here was a lady, very well dressed, twirling a white parasol on her shoulder as she walked, in a curious 'stumpy' way, beside a gentleman in light clothes, such as are worn in India. The Making of Religion They took up lands, built cabins, and forced a subsistence from the newly-cleared, stumpy virgin soil. Bart Ridgeley A Story of Northern Ohio It led them into woods and by stumpy fields and pine-odoured hamlets. Darrel of the Blessed Isles The outer walls rest upon the pillars of open colonnades, which have a more stumpy appearance than was intended, owing to the raising of the pavement in the piazza. Composition-Rhetoric And there are more black birds, very big ones too, going over to the water, and more yet coming out of those stumpy little pines, and there are some yellow pigeons down in the grass! Citizen Bird Scenes from Bird-Life in Plain English for Beginners The Hill-Wedderburn quarrel, for in his unostentatious way Wedderburn reciprocated Hill's ill-veiled rivalry, became a tribute to her indefinable charm; she was the Queen of Beauty in a tournament of scalpels and stumpy pencils. The Country of the Blind, and Other Stories He appreciated that there is a better way from the wrong road into the right than a mad dash straight across the stumpy fields and rocky gullies between. The Second Generation "A very close shave, my crimes!" vouchsafed the stumpy gentleman who kept the books at the bank. The Man from Brodney's "God-Begot House" is Tudor and the old "Pent House" over its stumpy Tuscan pillars is very picturesque. Wanderings in Wessex An Exploration of the Southern Realm from Itchen to Otter Joe turned and met Oscar Heming, delicatessen man, stumpy, bull-necked, with fierce bristling mustache, and clothes much too big for him. The Nine-Tenths We soon came in sight of the black stumpy monuments of one of the most disastrous conflagrations which ever victimized a forest. Lands of the Slave and the Free Cuba, the United States, and Canada Her son, Blaize, was a stout, stumpy fellow, about four feet ten, with a head somewhat too large for his body, and extremely long arms. Old Saint Paul's A Tale of the Plague and the Fire At each point of vantage I can see a Cross, often a relic of the early Christians, stumpy and corroded. Ballads of a Bohemian Sometimes we crashed through bracken; anon, where the blackberries grew rankest, we found a lonely little cemetery, the wooden rails all awry and the pitiful, stumpy head-stones nodding drunkenly at the soft green mullions. American Notes Why, he is twisted and stumpy, and his head is completely out of proportion with his legs. A House of Pomegranates Why, it's exactly like every other baby—bald head, red face, big mouth, and stumpy nose. Dreams Everywhere could be seen tall women and stumpy men, lively-faced girls, and youths whose expression never changed from sunrise to sunset. Hans Brinker; or, the Silver Skates When he peeped round the corner, he saw, under his own window, a group of stumpy creatures, whom he at once recognized by their shape. The Princess and the Goblin His eye twinkled, and his red-stained big lips, parted by an expressionless grin, uncovered a stumpy row of black teeth filed evenly to the gums. An Outcast of the Islands Fancy an old, stumpy, short, vulgar, and very dirty man, in old clothes and shabby old gaiters, who smokes a horrid pipe, and cooks his own horrid supper in a saucepan. Vanity Fair "Ho, ho!" laughed the small black figure, nowise impressed and cramming her stumpy fingers up to her mouth to keep the laugh in as she saw her young mistress' displeasure. Twilight Stories They were so heavy and stumpy, so like the queer craft that he had seen about Rotterdam. Hans Brinker; or, the Silver Skates There I balanced myself, as we lurched into the twilight, hanging on with one hand to a rope which descended from the stumpy mast. Mr. Standfast He sat silent, drumming noiselessly on the table with his stumpy, hairy, fat fingers. The Fortune Hunter Oh, I remember the chap at the House—plowed twice in Smalls—stumpy fellow, isn't he? Frivolous Cupid Before either could make sufficient sense of it even to answer, Father Brown had politely excused himself and gone stumping up the road with his stumpy old umbrella. The Wisdom of Father Brown It was his friend of the Harwich train, the stumpy little cure of Essex whom he had warned about his brown paper parcels. The Innocence of Father Brown He had long since lost speech and active movement, and the lank hair of the little brute grew thicker every day and his stumpy claws more askew. The Island of Doctor Moreau He seated himself upon his desk, his short, stumpy legs swinging in front of him. The Poison Belt His stumpy legs looked ridiculous in his baggy golf knickers of rough tweed, which he wore with gaiters extending half-way up his short, stout calves. The Yellow Streak At one of the central tables a very stumpy little priest sat in complete solitude, and applied himself to a pile of whitebait with the gravest sort of enjoyment. The Wisdom of Father Brown We had learned that buckwheat would catch and grow very stout on new and stumpy ground. The Bark Covered House His head was bent down, his bright eyes were fixed upon me, his stumpy hands clenched and held close by his side. The Island of Doctor Moreau "You may be equal to a forty-mile walk, but I'm not so sure about Challenger, with his stumpy legs, and I am perfectly sure about myself." The Poison Belt Then he hears them fumbling all over the hull with their stumpy fingers, trying to find 'way in, talking about him. The False Faces Further Adventures from the History of the Lone Wolf Etched against the horizon lay a stumpy masted vessel that seemed as still and dead as ocean that rotted around it. The Cruise of the Dry Dock From his capacious pockets he produced quantities of luscious sweets, and popped them into the children's mouths with his stumpy fingers. Casanova's Homecoming She is plump enough still, in all conscience, but not quite so stumpy as she was last summer. The Golden Calf Thus Reynard plays him a trick which condemns him for ever to a stumpy tail in No. xxiii. Popular Tales from the Norse Alexey Sergeitch himself was a stumpy, paunchy little old man, with a chubby face of one uniform tint, yet pleasant, with drawn-in lips, and very lively little eyes under high eyebrows. A Desperate Character and Other Stories Some of those which stood lowest were surrounded by a few stumpy fruit trees in the gardens, but the majority stood bleak and bare. Through the Fray A Tale of the Luddite Riots Gilbert took an account-book, a leaden inkstand, and a stumpy pen from a drawer under the window, and calculated silently and somewhat laboriously. The Story of Kennett That's why Bruin goes about with a stumpy tail to this very day. East O' the Sun and West O' the Moon There were long-haired and spectacled doctrinaires from New England, spliced by short-haired and stumpy emissaries from New York--mostly friends of Horace Greeley, as it turned out. Marse Henry, Complete An Autobiography There were long-haired and spectacled doctrinaires from New England, spliced by short-haired and stumpy emissaries from New York—mostly friends of Horace Greeley, as it turned out. Marse Henry (Volume 1) An Autobiography Along the country-roads, the farmhouses stood snowed in, with black window-shutters, which showed dark against the walls and shut in the light, and stumpy chimneys, with thick smoke curling from them. The Path of Life The maid, now satisfied there was nothing to fear, whether from ghost, goblin, or white face, retired and brought her mistress, a short stumpy old dame, who had seen at least some sixty summers. What Led to the Discovery of the Source of the Nile "Aint he just green?—Down with the stumpy—a tizzy for a pot of half-and-half." Alton Locke, Tailor and Poet An Autobiography The stumpy trees on either side with the bright new green of the spring seemed to be concealing lamps within their branches. The Cathedral But, climbing a rude, rough, rocky, stumpy, ferny height yesterday, one or two of them stood and stared at me with great earnestness. Passages from the American Notebooks, Volume 1 When his mother was fired at, on a timbered hillside facing Chilkat River, he and his brother ran away as fast as their stumpy little legs could carry them. The Junior Classics — Volume 8 Animal and Nature Stories Underneath came an explanation of what the red letters referred to, occupying no less than three paragraphs of stumpy small print, every word of which Valentine eagerly devoured. Hide and Seek The plunging thrust of his stumpy horns perhaps rips open the steed, sending the rider flying over the back of the furious bison, who may turn upon him and slay him before he can escape. The Life of Kit Carson Hunter, Trapper, Guide, Indian Agent and Colonel U.S.A. She had her charms, nevertheless, which consisted of a somewhat stumpy dumpy comeliness. The Three Clerks There was a stumpy clearing beyond the bridge, where some men were building a house. Passages from the American Notebooks, Volume 1 The rain, bitterly cold and driven by a stormy wind, thrashed us well while we floundered in the stumpy bog trying to make a fire and supper. Travels in Alaska Navvies of every nation; tall, brawny Scotchmen; jolly-looking Irishmen, their faces a mixture of pity for our misfortune and enjoyment of the "fun;" stumpy little French Canadians; solemn, stupid-looking Icelanders and Mennonites. A Trip to Manitoba His short, thick body and unfinished tail, more like a punch or the neck of a stumpy bottle, was turned in a loop, the head nearly touching the tail, like a pair of sugar-tongs. Field and Hedgerow Being the Last Essays of Richard Jefferies But just now you said—" "Just now I said that the police were determined to find the Prince and his secretary guilty; they did not look further than their own stumpy noses. The Old Man in the Corner The interstitial types have small irregular upper teeth, with turned, stumpy or missing lateral incisors. The Glands Regulating Personality "Oh, the short stumpy one it was who turned back to Inkston?" The Secret of the Tower The sparrow feeds especially on hard grains, difficult to break; accordingly its beak is stumpy, short, and thick, and is arched on the upper side for still further solidity. The History of a Mouthful of Bread And its effect on the organization of men and animals "Yes," answered Toby, by means of his expressive eyes, and wagging his stumpy tail, "I wish He would." The Children's Pilgrimage At first the line was fairly straight and smooth, but then the country became wonderfully wild, with rocky hills covered with stumpy trees and undergrowth of brilliant colouring, and wooded lakes without end. The British Association's Visit to Montreal, 1884 : letters Students of hands naturally have grouped them as the long slender and the short, broad, the bony and the well-filled out, the tapering fingers and the stumpy. The Glands Regulating Personality And possibly those two fellows outside—one of them short and stumpy—had their suspicions too, though these might be directed to another point. The Secret of the Tower The proud and splendid chief, with arms folded across his breast, and head slightly bowed, looked singularly out of place arraigned before the stumpy judge.—E. Annette, the Metis Spy The straight tails he ascribes to hydrogen because the hydrogen atom is the lightest known; the sword-shaped tails to hydro-carbons; and the stumpy tails to vaporized iron. Curiosities of the Sky Everywhere could be seen tall women, and stumpy men, lively-faced girls, and youths whose expression never changed from sunrise to sunset. The Junior Classics — Volume 6 Old-Fashioned Tales With this he went away, and I stood looking after his stumpy figure. Hugh Wynne, Free Quaker One looked tall and thin, the other short and stumpy. The Secret of the Tower All our family have short, or stumpy tails. Umboo, the Elephant So, moving his huge body, and his short, stumpy legs, he prepared to look around and find his supper. Rataplan, a rogue elephant; and other stories Dominey drank deep of his hock and seltzer and leaned back, watching the fireflies rise above the tall-bladed grass, above the stumpy clumps of shrub, and hang like miniature stars in the clear, violet air. The Great Impersonation The negroes of Loanda struck me as unusually ill-favoured; short, "stumpy," and very dark, or tinged with unclean yellow. Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo Volume 2 Then he suddenly recalled Alec Naylor's story of the two men, one tall and slight, one short and stumpy, who had reconnoitered Tower Cottage. The Secret of the Tower I saw the infantry working party with their stumpy clay pipes, in my dream, a long way on from where that shell had lit, which stopped the road for a day. Tales of War She described the animal as resembling a wolf, but as being shorter and stouter; its hair was red, its tail stumpy, and the head smaller than that of a genuine wolf. The Book of Were-Wolves Back of them again lay the town, its stumpy, half-graded streets terminating in the forest like the warty feelers of a stranded octopus. The Iron Trail Beyond the woodpile a rail fence inclosed a corn-field, and beyond the barns and sheds a similar fence defined the bounds of a stumpy pasture-lot. The Prodigal Judge It looked like a man, only it was a very big and broad man, and also a very low and stumpy one, as I said. The Voyage of the Hoppergrass Down the stumpy, muddy trail went the pursuit, and every command to halt spurred the fleeing man to swifter flight. The Winds of Chance He was an ill-made, ugly, stumpy man, about fifty; with a blotched face, straggling sandy hair, and grey shaggy whiskers. The Kellys and the O'Kellys "How is your mother, Bob?" he then said, approaching the stumpy urchin, who stood respectfully watching him and awaiting his pleasure. God's Good Man He was a short, stumpy man, with red cheeks and a round face; who was usually to be seen till dinner-time dressed in a very old shooting coat, with breeches, gaiters, and very thick shoes. The Small House at Allington He beheld a stumpy and pompous-looking personage, flushed in the face, with a moth-eaten grey beard and shifty grey eyes, clothed in a flannel shirt, tweed knickerbockers, brown stockings, white spats and shoes. South Wind And after dinner, when Miss Winwood had left them together, he lighted a long Corona instead of his usual stumpy Bock, and discussed with Paul electioneering ways and means. The Fortunate Youth Mavis stared at the plainly clad, stumpy little figure in astonishment. Sparrows: the story of an unprotected girl He placed himself straight across the narrow path, blocking it up with his short and stumpy figure. The British Barbarians Bravely he bore his stumpy body forward on spatted feet, squaring his shoulders. Ulysses I was always afraid she'd be short and stumpy, but she's now as tall and slender as any one need be. Wives and Daughters The stumpy fragment of tower at the west end is said once to have been five hundred and thirty feet high! Beautiful Europe: Belgium This flow was composed of every variety of girl: tall, stumpy, medium, dark, fair, auburn, with dispositions as varied as their appearances. Sparrows: the story of an unprotected girl And sure enough, right across the narrow path in front of them stood a short, fat, stumpy, unimpressive little man, with a very red face, and a Norfolk jacket, boiling over with anger. The British Barbarians The people who moved about seemed stumpy and sordid, the air seemed to smell rather dirty, there was a sense of many mean streets ramifying off into warrens of meanness. Women in Love The hideous reptile is very thick and stumpy in proportion to its length, which rarely exceeds two feet, whilst its circumference may be put down at one-fifth of its total measurement. Australian Search Party A man addressing a small gang of colliers from the foot of a stumpy memorial obelisk. Touch and Go In one of the stumpy fields I saw an old favorite in the grass finch or vesper swallow. Wake-Robin Glory be to God, it's bold talk you have for a stumpy runt of a man! Anna Christie I have taken you in, old stumpy wings. Australian Legendary Tales: folklore of the Noongahburrahs as told to the Piccaninnies The ousting of the splendid full-rigged ships by stumpy, unlovely tramp-steamers in the Hooghly River, to which I have already referred, is only one example of the universal disappearance of the picturesque. The Days Before Yesterday He is a stumpy, short, podgy man; but then so also was my Arab friend at Suez. George Walker at Suez Schemes of conquest which they at first seemed bent upon are abandoned, and the settle down very quietly in their old quarters in remote stumpy fields. Wake-Robin His arms with their big, hairy, freckled hands, and his stumpy legs terminating in large flat feet, are awkwardly short and muscular. Anna Christie But Barney, in trying to imitate a stumpy man with an umbrella, as the song demanded, tripped and lay where he fell, too fatigued to rise. Jonah Then you are in the "Midi," and any black-bearded, olive-complexioned, stumpy little men in the carriage will give a sigh of relief, for now, at last, the sun will begin to shine. The Days Before Yesterday They looked curiously stumpy with their legs buried in the snow. The Girl from Keller's The road for two or three miles kept up from the river and led us by three or four rough stumpy farms. Wake-Robin Yes, she must be with that stumpy body, those thick legs and arms, that short nose and large mouth. The Captives Those who had commissions from buyers marked the chosen lots in their catalogue with a stumpy pencil. Jonah His beard afforded him the air of an ambassador, and his grave, melancholy eyes the absorbed introspection of a Spanish hidalgo; his tail, however, in its upright, stumpy jocularity, betrayed his dignity. Jeremy They are of medium stature, with long backs and short, muscular, well-rounded limbs; a little stumpy in build, but of graceful and vigorous bearing. The Pagan Tribes of Borneo The speed and activity of a man, although considerable upon a smooth surface, is as nothing upon rough, stumpy grass wilds, where even walking is laborious. The Rifle and the Hound in Ceylon After a pause, he rubbed a short, thick, stumpy beard, that bore a general resemblance to a badly-worn blacking-brush, with the palm of his hand, and went on, "You had a good time, Jinny?" Tales of the Argonauts The stumpy little lizard known as the horned frog is harmless. Sixes and Sevens For'ard, there are peasants and soldiers: stumpy, placid-looking little warriors for the most part, smoking feeble cigars and looking quite harmless under their enormous helmets. The Christmas Books of Mr. M.A. Titmarsh "It's much as iver," said the stumpy Hibernian, to herself, as she watched the twinkling retreat of those slim, but vigorous little members. Oldport Days |
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