| 单词 | lumpish |
| 例句 | The two young lieutenants nodded lumpishly and gaped at each other in stunned and flaccid reluctance, each waiting for the other to initiate the procedure of taking Major Danby outside and shooting him. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z The stones lay lumpish and cold under my bare feet. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z A lumpish man charges Liberty with a pocketknife, repeating his words like a war cry. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z It was dark out there, but you could see the lumpish shapes of the Cowgill boys hanging around the milk wagon, waiting for their paw. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z My personality was numb, reduced to a lumpish, loose, dissolved state. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z The trouble started when Marshall Fine, the thoroughly unremarkable critic who runs Hollywood & Fine, declared the film “nonsensical,” “lumpish” and “tedious.” Jerks defend “Dark Knight” 2012-07-18T15:55:00Z Meanwhile, her rapacious brother-in-law, Stanley Kowalski, was all muscle, lumpish sensuality and crude energy, and his mentality provided "the soil for fascism, viewed not as a political movement but as a state of being". Tennessee Williams at 100: funnier than ever 2011-03-28T14:22:40Z They were enormous, 10-feet long and terrifically ugly, great lumpish loaves that transformed the beach into a war zone. Sandy recovery: Walls won’t stop superstorms 2012-11-06T19:20:00Z As for Seb, he does talk—and how and when he talks is yet another mark of Chazelle’s lumpish taste. The Empty Exertions of “La La Land” 2016-12-08T05:00:00Z The weaker poems are similarly lumpish and trivial. One Last Book From an Outback Poet Who Was Part Hero, Part Pariah 2022-04-15T04:00:00Z Photograph: Jason Mandella/See caption - free image The lumpish, irregular totems crafted by this American sculptor were outfitted here with that most contemporary and most loathsome of accessories: the selfie stick. The best American art shows of 2015 2015-12-16T05:00:00Z Can she truly like the strange partner that fate Apportions her, lumpish, unlovely, and late? Punch, or the London Charivari, October 21st 1893 2012-04-04T02:01:00.747Z The Chancellor's lumpish but singularly mobile features underwent a change. Chippinge Borough 2012-02-15T03:00:32.210Z It was lit by one paraffin lamp, supported by a bracket attached to the wall, and such light as existed brought out from the shadows the vague lumpish shape of a mattress on the floor. Lord John in New York 2012-01-04T03:00:30.077Z Viewed from behind, half-hitched trousers and bulging shirt, he had a lumpish appearance, and it was the more inelegant for the contortions of his arms and shoulders, characteristic of a clumsy shaver. The Happy Warrior 2011-12-18T03:00:18.863Z His body sagged lumpishly to the roll of the ship. Atlantic Narratives Modern Short Stories 2011-12-01T03:00:20.193Z There was the rich forest scenery to the north, behind it were the rocks, and behind the rocks rose the wonderful conical hill impaling heaven; confronting it to the south-east was a huge lumpish hill. Wild Wales The People, Laguage & Scenery 2011-10-09T02:00:29.740Z But some memories, you know, are like those lumpish or pointed things you can’t get into your trunk—they won’t pack anyway; and he keeps coming back to them. Lady Barbarina The Siege of London, An International Episode and Other Tales 2011-10-06T02:00:37.063Z Strolling along the sidewalk appeared three men, all evidently Italians; but two, in their rough clothes, lumpish sailors. "Persons Unknown" 2011-09-28T02:00:23.683Z Of course he could have wished, they all would have preferred, some one less lumpish than that great, grim Crittenden to complete their quartet. Rough-Hewn 2011-09-20T02:00:15.147Z Juliet, at the same time, heard something fall, or thrown down, from within, weighty, and bearing a lumpish sound that made her start with horrour. The Wanderer (Volume 4 of 5) or, Female Difficulties 2011-09-17T02:00:32.663Z But, at the description of the sack, the lumpish sound, and the subsequent appearance of a clot of blood, the poor woman turned pale; and, blessing herself, said, 'The La be good unto me! The Wanderer (Volume 5 of 5) or, Female Difficulties 2011-09-17T02:00:29.433Z It seemed like some lumpish berg guarding an arctic, locked-up bay where ships lay dead. Sea and Sardinia 2011-08-28T02:00:30.857Z Doubtlessly he sat somewhere close to her, lumpishly content. The Return of the Soldier 2011-08-26T02:00:23.937Z Let our sons come to manhood, and they shall drive from thy walls these lumpish fellows who dare to talk of Germanizing you! The Pl?biscite or, A Miller's Story of the War 2011-07-27T02:00:38.240Z Yet the only servant he saw was the lumpish girl who had admitted him. Jessamine A Novel 2011-06-15T02:00:24.413Z Finally she made out a moving, lumpish sort of procession coming from the road. The Old Blood 2011-06-13T02:00:22.897Z I wonder, has he such a lumpish, leaden, Aching thing, in place of a heart? Browning and the Dramatic Monologue 2011-04-30T02:00:14.330Z You whom I have sheltered and fed, lumpish mooncalf, unlettered bumpkin! The MS. in a Red Box 2011-04-07T02:00:20.313Z Such plays were of too thin contexture to satisfy the somewhat gross and lumpish taste of a Roman audience. History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume I 2011-04-03T02:00:22.843Z The Barbarian elders admired Roman civilization, but were "stiff and lumpish in body and mind." A Short History of Italy (476-1900) 2011-02-24T03:01:00.630Z Curtis, looking upon the livid old man, inert and lumpish, yet venerable because of his white hairs—and because he was the sire of his love—experienced a sudden melting of his own resolution. The Captain of the Gray-Horse Troop They were a pair of slow coaches, heavy lumpish men, who would as soon have attempted a ride to the moon on a broomstick, as have ventured two yards up the mast. Flora Lyndsay or, Passages in an Eventful Life Vol. II. The baby was a nice chubby little thing, about seven months old, but he was what the nurse called “lumpish, and had no spring,” so that he was very heavy to carry. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, No. 22, March, 1852, Volume 4. On her soft couch uneasily she lay: The lumpish husband snored away the night,420 Till coughs awaked him near the morning light. The Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 1 New Edition You hear no strains of country drollery, and no characters of curious or eccentric humor; all is dull, plodding, and lumpish. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 4, September, 1850 But why does Van Loon envy us this lumpish invention? why does the Dutchman quarrel with his own cheese? Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 3 The only amusement such lumpish creatures could have was to meet in some inn or tavern, and swill themselves into a debauched joy of life. Robert Burns Famous Scots Series The girls have a rich blood color in their swarthy cheeks, and some of them are really pretty, though always in a lumpish, domestic-animal style. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 90, April, 1865 They are dear lumpish souls who like things “straightforward” as they say—all or nothing. New Worlds For Old A Plain Account of Modern Socialism His inert, lumpish form was at the moment hideously repulsive to her, and physical contact with him a dreaded thing. Money Magic A Novel Was he a lumpish log, or was he a man all nerves and electricity? The Strand Magazine, Volume V, Issue 25, January 1893 An Illustrated Monthly His lumpish face was deeply seamed and wrinkled. The Martian Cabal Conceive of this short, squat, chunky, lumpish figure in the costume described,—grease ad libitum being added. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 90, April, 1865 The most degraded does not get so lumpish as the English workman, whose brains have become sodden in the public-houses by long trains of pots of beer. A Tramp's Wallet stored by an English goldsmith during his wanderings in Germany and France I passed a couple of timber and plaster churches, which looked very old, black and crooked, and had lumpish wooden porches and galleries encircling the base. A Little Tour of France In the morning Will Challice partly solved the question, because he called and showed clearly that he was an insensible log and a lumpish log. The Strand Magazine, Volume V, Issue 25, January 1893 An Illustrated Monthly Once he lay for some time in the edge of a dark forest of water-weeds, only an inch from a lumpish, stupid-looking creature, half covered with mud, that was clinging to one of the stems. Forest Neighbors Life Stories of Wild Animals And, because she was lonely, with only Lady Rochford, who was foolish, and this girl to talk to, it had grieved the Queen to find this girl growing so lumpish and dull. The Fifth Queen Crowned The first are the sentimentalists; their brains are flaccid, lumpish like dough, and without grip on reality. The Jessica Letters: An Editor's Romance They were heavy, lumpish fellows, and they made but an ungracious return to the attempted civilities of the stranger, to whom the offer of their mother to show him his room was a decided relief. A Stable for Nightmares or Weird Tales It is after the mother you take it, that was too soft and too lumpish, having too much of the English in her blood. The Unicorn from the Stars and Other Plays We had not a good hall, and they were a very lumpish audience indeed. The Letters of Charles Dickens Vol. 2, 1857-1870 When spoken to, don’t lumpishly look at the ground. Early English Meals and Manners You see the more matter and bodily substance is in any thing, it is the more lumpish, heavy, and void of all action. The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning There is Daddy, a lumpish person with some gift for playing Indian games when he is in the mood. Danger! and Other Stories In desperate desire for haste I could only lumpishly wait. A Daughter of the Middle Border He was frozen as hard as stone and fell like stone, and I looked to see him break, as a statue might that falls lumpishly. The Frozen Pirate The lumpish lad shut his mouth, reduced his eyes, and, going shyly forward, held out his hand. The Hot Swamp Your bodies are earthly and lumpish, and the way is all upward to the holy hill. The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning In the triumphal entry the Batavian Mordecai was mounted on a genuine Flanders mare, that, fortunately, quietly received her applause with a lumpish majesty resembling her rider. Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1 She regarded the waxy-looking, lumpish, partially translucent forms with some distaste. Legacy He was called a good fellow,—only a little lumpish,—and as he was brave and faithful, he rose in time to be a shipmaster. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 2, No. 14, December 1858 “Help me down!” she cried, looking full in the face of a lumpish lad, who stood gazing at her with open eyes and mouth. The Hot Swamp On the other hand, the way of life, after the Spirit, is an ascent upward, and it is very difficult to our earthly and lumpish flesh. The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning And if, as is always possible, the Germans do make some lumpish onslaught upon Dutch neutrality, then I am convinced that at once that sturdy little country will up and fight like the very devil. The New York Times Current History, A Monthly Magazine The European War, March 1915 This caused both Darling and myself to interpose, and I turned door-keeper while Allen retreated to the other side of the room with rather a higher color than usual on his lumpish face. The New Penelope and Other Stories and Poems I wonder, has he such a lumpish, leaden, Aching thing in place of a heart? The Dog's Book of Verse I read your letter—I literally jumped for joy—How could such a mercurial creature as a poet lumpishly keep his seat on the receipt of the best news from his best friend. The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham Our French friend Lucien has, at fifteen, the air and conversation of a finished gentleman; and our English friend C—— is at eighteen, the veriest log of a lumpish school-boy that ever entered a room. The Diary of an Ennuyée A lumpish mass, like Africa and Australia, the ocean has nowhere pierced it with those deep bays and gulfs in which commerce delights to find a shelter and a home. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 110, December, 1866 A Magazine of Literature, Science, Art, and Politics It happened that an Eton boy was staying in the house, of the blundering lumpish type; he had had more than his share of luck in breaking windows and articles of furniture. Memoirs of Arthur Hamilton, B. A. Of Trinity College, Cambridge Extracted From His Letters And Diaries, With Reminiscences Of His Conversation By His Friend Christopher Carr Of The Same College We find no more lumpish harmonies and basses of leaden immovability: the basses stalk about with arrogant independence, and the harmonic progressions, even when most daring and perilous, are superbly poised. Richard Wagner Composer of Operas For some time Dotty danced the lumpish baby up and down, sustained in her tedious task by remembering the honeyed compliments its mother had given her. Dotty Dimple Out West He sank into a chair at the table, lumpishly, as if his limbs had grown thick and lithic, while she poured out a cup of tea and cut some ham. The Judge The greatest number have a sort of an heavy, lumpish acquiescence in government, without much respect or esteem for those that compose it. The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 06 (of 12) Hates also, with their sharpest bristles rubbed down, were modified to bluntness, and left a mere lumpish aversion of mind. The Spinners After he had finished, I lay across the sloping cellar door, lumpish and still, inwardly a shaking jelly of horror. Tramping on Life An Autobiographical Narrative They are lumpish and short-winged on the street; they labor and lumber off with a sidewise twist to their bodies that reminds one of a rheumatic old dog upon the trot. Roof and Meadow At Blames College of blessed memory, the best I could hope for was to reach and influence a handful of lumpish boys. Queed Thought is lumpish, Thought is slow, Weighing long 'tween yes and no; When dear Love is dead and gone, Thought comes creeping in anon, And, in his deserted nest, Sits to hold the crowner's quest. The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell One of a broad, full, fat face is, by the rules of physiognomy, of a dull, lumpish, heavy constitution, and that for one virtue has three vices. The Works of Aristotle the Famous Philosopher Containing his Complete Masterpiece and Family Physician; his Experienced Midwife, his Book of Problems and his Remarks on Physiognomy William Wilberforce did not more fervently desire the conversion to God of his infant Samuel than apparently did Lord Chesterfield the transformation of his lumpish offspring into 'the all-accomplished man' he wished to have him. In the Name of the Bodleian and Other Essays Dodo is most probably the name given at first to the bird by the Portuguese; Doudo, in that language, being a fool or lumpish stupid person. Notes and Queries, Number 22, March 30, 1850 Thus did I begin lumpishly enough to comfort her. Red Axe A solid fellow, heavy to lift in his present lumpish condition of dead-weight! The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 09, No. 52, February, 1862 And a string of big lumpish amber beads. Mary Wollaston Press the spikes into the lumpish and uncouth monster of thy flesh. Essays in Rebellion The Dod-aers of the Dutch is most probably a vulgar epithet of the Dutch sailors, expressive of its lumpish conformation and inactivity. Notes and Queries, Number 22, March 30, 1850 A number of peasants, men and women, in shiny blouses and lumpish footwear, stood regarding him, arrested on their way to work. The War in the Air Now, when there needs little more than to signify your acceptance, why do you sit so lumpishly in your great-great-grandfather's oaken chair, as if preferring it to the gubernatorial one? House of the Seven Gables The lumpish hill pony with its deer-saddle had gone up the Correi in a gillie's charge while we followed at leisure, picking our way among the loose granite rocks and the patches of wet bogland. The Moon Endureth: Tales and Fancies There was the rich forest scenery to the north, behind it were the rocks and behind the rocks rose the wonderful conical hill impaling heaven; confronting it to the south-east, was a huge lumpish hill. Wild Wales: Its People, Language and Scenery We cleared the house of all the servants but one, who was kept for domestic purposes, and whose lumpish stupidity we could trust to make no embarrassing discoveries. The Woman in White Bert was excited, Tom kept calm and lumpish, but neither of them realised how their own lives were to be invaded by the fruits of that beginning. The War in the Air She made lumpish and inadequate interruptions rather than replies. Ann Veronica, a modern love story Thus, also, you pass from the lumpish grub in the earth to the airy and fluttering butterfly. Walden He bends forward, and his great, lumpish hands are joined to muscular arms. The Dramatic Works of Gerhart Hauptmann Volume II I knocked, and the door was opened by the same heavy, overgrown housemaid whose lumpish insensibility had tried my patience so severely on the day when I found the wounded dog. The Woman in White At forty-nine the lumpish promise of his youth was quite gone. Black Jack How could such a mercurial creature as a poet lumpishly keep his seat on the receipt of the best news from his best friend. The Letters of Robert Burns On her soft couch uneasily she lay: 420 The lumpish husband snored away the night, Till coughs awaked him near the morning light. The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 2 He was a rough, lumpish young man, with good but dull features—only his blue eye was clear. The Vicar's Daughter In Dryden the solid part too often refused to mix kindly with the leaven, either remaining lumpish or rising to a hasty puffiness. Among My Books First Series Still he was no less stout, lumpish, and pink-faced than before. The History of David Grieve The head particularly, which, in the Scottish pony, is often lumpish and heavy, was small and well placed in the neck of this animal, with thin jaws, full sparkling eyes, and expanded nostrils. Quentin Durward "Well, the way you DO turn up," she said, smiling and holding out her left hand to him: in the other hand, or the hollow of her slim right arm, she had a lumpish parcel. The Reverberator A brood of owls were clucking and cluttering about under the hovel, and there, too, leaning against the rear wheel of the wain, were a lumpish wagoner and our surly host. The Yeoman Adventurer Shrink together as they might they couldn't help, Maisie felt, being a very large lumpish image of what Mrs. Wix required of his slim fineness. What Maisie Knew He used a lover's language, but his letter was as cold and lumpish as a golden ingot. Hidden Creek They are a lazy, lumpish, torpid set; and when going ashore after a long cruise, come out into the day like terrapins from their caves, or bears in the spring, from tree-trunks. White Jacket or, the World on a Man-of-War Adj. weighty; weighing &c. v.; heavy as lead; ponderous, ponderable; lumpish†, lumpy, cumbersome, burdensome; cumbrous, unwieldy, massive. incumbent, superincumbent†. Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases And I turned, instant, and lookt; and behold! there did be upon us an Humpt Man, very lumpish and mighty; and he stretched out his hands, and ran at me. The Night Land But I cannot imagine how any one, least of all the brilliant Froissart, should have conceived that lumpish soldier to be capable of the finesse needful for the Secret Service. The Lost Naval Papers Although Spenser's use of certain words appears quaint and lumpish, the language is superficially modern enough to enable the reader to "get by". The Faerie Queene — Volume 01 There are no lumpish solidities, no billowy protuberances here. Mosaics of Grecian History Laurent no longer resisted, he became lumpish, abandoning himself to the nothingness that was already gaining possession of his being. Theresa Raquin A slow, lumpish fellow you seem to be. Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 01 Why is the country so flat, so foggy, so desolate; and why are the peasants so lumpish and miserable? Definitions: Essays in Contemporary Criticism Queen Elizabeth would have found nothing lumpish about the language: her only impatience might have been with Spenser's weakness for archaisms. The Faerie Queene — Volume 01 He would scarcely have heeded a Burgundian cannon shot; he had drifted into a lumpish doze. If I Were King But there is no relation between them; they stand isolated on his paper, mere lumpish shapes. Concerning the Spiritual in Art The figures are heavy and lumpish, and are enveloped, men and women alike, in draperies, which leave only the heads, the fore-arms, and the toes exposed. A History of Greek Art But most of them were in excellent condition -- fine, rounded bodies, not lumpish. The South Pole; an account of the Norwegian Antarctic expedition in the "Fram," 1910-12 — Volume 1 and Volume 2 Upton 1 After them went Displeasure and Pleasance, Pleasance > Pleasure 2 He looking lumpish and full sullen sad, lumpish > sluggish; low-spirited full > very sullen > baleful, malignant; sullen; and adv. The Faerie Queene — Volume 01 The heavy lumpish phrase sank slowly out of hearing like a stone through a quagmire. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man The whole sex are generally quick and sharp; I believe I may be allowed to say generally so; for you rarely see them lumpish and heavy when they are children, as boys will often be. An Essay Upon Projects We got two forces of toy soldiers, set out a lumpish Encyclopaedic land upon the carpet, and began to play. Little Wars; a game for boys from twelve years of age to one hundred and fifty and for that more intelligent sort of girl who likes boys' games and books. No sound broke the silence but the lumpish snoring of Schwartz. Jezebel's Daughter Was that white beard a rag for obscene hands To tear? a weed for lumpish clowns to pluck? The Poems of Emma Lazarus, Volume 2 Jewish poems: Translations But most of them were in excellent condition — fine, rounded bodies, not lumpish. The South Pole; an account of the Norwegian antarctic expedition in the "Fram," 1910-1912 — Volume 1 Yet "all these things will be seen to by one above us," whose daily working hours are lengthened and whose labours are considerably increased by this lumpish, yet unbridled, perversity. Letters of the Younger Pliny, First Series — Volume 1 At last I put my project in execution, and on a nearer approach, instead of glimmering air woven into fantastic shapes, found them huge lumpish heaps of discoloured earth. Table Talk Essays on Men and Manners She was startled by a touch, and a lumpish voice, attempted to be softened into an insinuating tone. The Pigeon Pie A marvellous repose—that rare merit in statuary, except it be the lumpish repose native to the block of stone—was diffused throughout the figure. The Marble Faun - Volume 1 The Romance of Monte Beni I passed a couple of timber and plaster churches, which looked very old, black, and crooked, and had lumpish wooden porches and galleries encircling the base. A Little Tour in France His hands hung nearly to his knees; he was heavy, short, lumpish. Michael Presently a great dark lumpish thing showed over to the right. The Railway Children On either side of us, the one sound that broke the sinister and threatening silence was the lumpish snoring of the sleeping captain and crew. The Two Destinies "Oh!" said Trana, who was a lumpish girl and not much given to talking; but presently she added, "Aunt, why does the Englishman always knock against a person when he passes them?" The Story of an African Farm, a novel No sounds but the steady ticking of the clock, and the lumpish snoring of a large dog stretched on a mat outside the dining-room door, disturbed the mysterious morning stillness of hall and staircase. No Name He now retorted in a coarse, lumpish way, and Startop tried to turn the discussion aside with some small pleasantry that made us all laugh. Great Expectations Yet thy lumpish antagonist once did work Heroical, one of our strong. Poems — Volume 3 Breathing rapidly and having his teeth so tightly clenched that his maxillary muscles protruded lumpishly, Kerry stood looking at the fallen man. Dope But old Sam Tuk seated lumpish in his chair like some grotesque idol before whom a human sacrifice has been offered up, stirred not. Dope |
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