Verb (used with object) : The cat humped its back. From Dictionary.com.
He had enormous shoulders, fairly "humped" with layers of fat. From Wordnik.com. [A Little Miss Nobody Or, With the Girls of Pinewood Hall] Reference
Farm in Yilan County's Sansing Township often get "humped" and put in the family way by wild boars. From Wordnik.com. [WN.com - Articles related to Can the tiger save India?] Reference
And one of his shoulders was kind of humped up and to one side, and one of his hands had a stiff thumb. From Wordnik.com. [Mitch Miller] Reference
The woodpecker sat on his perch with wings held tightly against his sides, "humped" up as though he were high-shouldered. From Wordnik.com. [In Nesting Time] Reference
Mine humped up in the middle like a pile of bricks. From Wordnik.com. [A Yankee in the Trenches] Reference
Our target was a humped ridge line dubbed the "Whale.". From Wordnik.com. [Anaconda's End Game] Reference
Africa, and the two-humped, or Bactrian camel, in Asia. From Wordnik.com. [Twilight and Dawn Simple Talks on the Six Days of Creation] Reference
One of these was a man humped up with rheumatism, as only. From Wordnik.com. [A Woman's Impression of the Philippines] Reference
I sat humped up in my original position through the night. From Wordnik.com. [A Yankee in the Trenches] Reference
Ahead lay a barren stretch of beach, humped with sand dunes. From Wordnik.com. [Tom Swift and the Electronic Hydrolung] Reference
Calico Cat humped her back ready to spring at Teddy if he answered, and. From Wordnik.com. [Sandman's Goodnight Stories] Reference
A sleek dark shape struck down, skimming across the humped-back ridge of the dragon. From Wordnik.com. [Key Out of Time] Reference
Four humped steeds waited for us under the ramparts of the fairy-tale Jaisalmer Fort. From Wordnik.com. [Week 30: The Truth About Camels] Reference
NO WONDER QUASIMODO stoops: he's carrying a lot of movies on that humped little back. From Wordnik.com. [Pseudo-Quasi] Reference
Where the hill humped itself against the sky the blurred figure of a cow was visible. From Wordnik.com. [Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 5, June 1905] Reference
The Sea Monster humped off down the beach, followed eagerly by the two treasure hunters. From Wordnik.com. [David and the Phoenix] Reference
In the Corps, as you can imagine, we 'humped' a lot (for you soldiers or civilians that's. From Wordnik.com. [SurvivalBlog.com] Reference
He was very sorry for the toad when he saw him all humped up in a disconsolate little heap one day. From Wordnik.com. [Fairy Tales from Brazil How and Why Tales from Brazilian Folk-Lore] Reference
He was astonished to see at the ledge, just below, a great water-cart with three humped oxen attached. From Wordnik.com. [The Yoke A Romance of the Days when the Lord Redeemed the Children of Israel from the Bondage of Egypt] Reference
He stood for a while, humped, hands in pockets, watching the other's strong body spring lithely to its task. From Wordnik.com. [Judith of the Cumberlands] Reference
He turned his back to the wind and stood humped over, peering through the evening at their disappearing forms. From Wordnik.com. [The Wind Before the Dawn] Reference
And straightway he humped himself up and moved, and sent the little figs flying, -- and his back showed through. From Wordnik.com. [Stories to Tell to Children] Reference
And straight-way he humped himself up and moved, and sent the little figs flying, -- and his back showed through. From Wordnik.com. [Stories to Tell Children Fifty-Four Stories With Some Suggestions For Telling] Reference
Long and swinging as an elk, he had the immense, humped shoulders of a buffalo and the length of arm of a baboon. From Wordnik.com. [Montlivet] Reference
I registered the words and was aware of humped shapes on the highway's shoulder, but I did not slow down. From Wordnik.com. [Confederates] Reference
Her back was a little humped, her arms disproportionately long, losing in plumpness what they gained in extension. From Wordnik.com. [The Yotsuya Kwaidan or O'Iwa Inari Tales of the Tokugawa, Volume 1 (of 2)] Reference
Even the convalescent British soldiers facing each other in the clumsy drab cart drawn by humped bullocks, and marked. From Wordnik.com. [The Path of a Star] Reference
Then the cycle loomed in sight; the rider, muffled and humped over the front wheel, might have been a man or a woman. From Wordnik.com. [The Crimson Blind] Reference
The pair of broncos that Mrs. Yellett was driving humped their backs like cats as they climbed the steep mountain-road. From Wordnik.com. [Judith of the Plains] Reference
He was sitting with his back to me, humped up in a worn arm-chair, before his small stove, just as Tanrade had found him. From Wordnik.com. [A Village of Vagabonds] Reference
He wore a number of little capes to hide his humped back, and his body, one thought, under his clothes was strapped together. From Wordnik.com. [The Sleuth of St. James's Square] Reference
Patsie stood in the stall nearest the door, humped up with the cold, and with a layer of snow on her hips and spreading black tail. From Wordnik.com. [The Wind Before the Dawn] Reference
Indeed, in consequence of this peculiarity of my form at that time that I have come to be called by the name of Trikakud (three-humped). From Wordnik.com. [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12] Reference
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