Every thing was done as she had desired, and, in five minutes, I was going up Broadway as fast as Honor O'Flagherty's (for such was the name of the messenger) little
dumpy legs could carry me.
He again held up his foot, which had a gouty appearance owing to its being contained in a
dumpy little worsted sock, and I thought he proposed to repeat his first performance, but in this I did him an injustice, for, unlike Porthos, he was one who scorned to do the same feat twice; perhaps, like the conjurors, he knew that the audience were more on the alert the second time.
Tildy was
dumpy, plain-faced, and too anxious to please to please.
Each, too, has a pipe in his mouth, and a little
dumpy watch in his right hand.
It would settle down, at times, and make her squat and
dumpy, and then she had to roll herself in the road until her body stretched out again.
In ascending to my room I was met upon the stairs by a smart, pretty girl of nineteen, with a tidy,
dumpy figure, a round face, bright, blooming cheeks, glossy, clustering curls, and little merry brown eyes.
He had just been to the cellar, and was in full dress too; that is, he had taken his gaiters off, and showed his little
dumpy legs in black worsted stockings.
This portrait gives the idea of a somewhat
dumpy but good-looking damsel, does it not?
The little priest had stepped out into the main avenue, and now returned with the fallen sword, which looked ludicrously large and theatrical when attached to his
dumpy figure, at once clerical and commonplace.
On glowing summer afternoons wagonettes came full of Americans and cultured suburbans to see the sepulchre; but even then they felt the vast forest land with its one
dumpy dome of churchyard and church as a place oddly dumb and neglected.
A pup in Whitby was picked up and left in a
dumpy bag, causing it to overheat, which is life threatening."
Dowdy,
dumpy Caroline is drafted in to ghost write the memoir of a sexy reality star.