The two had seated themselves on a little
bumpy sofa which stood against the wall.
Meantime the old salt ("ex-coasting skipper" was writ large all over his person) had hobbled up alongside in his
bumpy, shiny boots, and, waving an arm, short and thick like the flipper of a seal, terminated by a paw red as an uncooked beef-steak, addressed the poop in a muffled, faint, roaring voice, as if a sample of every North-Sea fog of his life had been permanently lodged in his throat: "Haul 'em round, Mr.
The clothes were also stuffed with straw, and that so unevenly or carelessly that his Majesty's legs and arms seemed more
bumpy than was necessary.
The bronze medal for mathematics was considered as good as won by a fat, funny little up-country boy with a
bumpy forehead and a patched coat.
Usually it is done quite easily, as by your wearing too many garments or too few, but if you are
bumpy in awkward places or the only available tree is an odd shape, Peter does some things to you, and after that you fit.
So grey, so slow, so quiet, so impassionate, so very
bumpy in the head, Patriarch was the word for him.
He was dark and sturdy, with a
bumpy forehead and a bulldog jaw, and he spoke with a curt apology.
Rocketts they found after some hours, four miles from a station, and, so far as they could, judge in the
bumpy darkness, twice as many from a road.
Yousaf, a resident of the Peoples Colony said, 'I am continuously visiting workshops to get my car repaired due to
bumpy roads of Peoples Colony and Kiani Road area.'
He said the
bumpy road was causing hardships to the serious patients.
Ce-jay said: "I just got told that
bumpy roads are meant to help you when you're pregnant.
Forty-one people on board a Russian Aeroflot passenger plane were killed on Sunday, including two children, after the aircraft caught fire as it made a
bumpy emergency landing at a Moscow airport