How To Use Hump In A Sentence
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Of particular significance to ancient Arabia was the domestication of the dromedary (one-humped camel) in the southern part of the peninsula between 3000 and 2500 B.C.E.
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Back on the boat and heading to shore, we spotted a spout, a fin and then the flukes of a humpback whale.
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I am inclined to think, old boy, that there is a good deal of what they call the chump about me.
Old Ebenezer
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What's more, the prospect of one of the most important chunks of Britain's transport infrastructure being sold soon riled a good deal of nationalistic tub-thumping.
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And in a way I want to make my language as mimetic as possible, as sensual as possible, so that you can feel the treetops, taste the lamb chump chops, and hear the wind and the sound of the surf beating on the beach.
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I long for the Monday nights before he came along when the second I got hungry I could stand by the kitchen TV watching "The Bachelorette," while whumping down a salade nicoise.
Susan Orlins: Dating After Divorce: What if I Meet a Guy I Like?
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So I put the guitar on clean, put on the delay effect, and I arpeggiate the chords at the right speed to get this really crazy thumping sound.
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Despite advances in headphone design, the fact is you are still listening to glorified stereo, where the sounds appear to thump uncomfortably inside your head.
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The image jitters, there is a thump as the sound comes on, and a haggard, hair-covered face fills the frame.
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For all its heart-thumping glory, it can also come with a heavy-duty helping of awkwardness and anxiety.
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They received invaluable technical advice from architect Colin Humphrey.
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A person does not take one emotional thump in the face and willingly put himself up for more.
Times, Sunday Times
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Pluralists have even tried to adapt Schumpeter's account, but have neglected his strong elitist account of input politics.
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But this year, when precisely the same measure came up for a required second vote, it was defeated by a thumping margin of 157 to 39.
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The roads have large potholes, road calming humps, roundabouts and other obstacles.
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The strong, even thump of her pulse against his skin reassured him.
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The boat lurched 370 and Thorn thumped a shinbone against the glass coffee table and almost went down.
BLACKWATER SOUND
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Not for the first time it struck Buncan that Clothahump went through famuli the way an echidna went through termites.
The Lives of Felix Gunderson
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Humph!" said Dan, as he speared up an apple out of the basket on the point of his knife, "ain't that something like what you call killing two ----
The Wide, Wide World
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There was little to choose between the sides in the early stages of the second-half, but Humphreys bagged a snap drop-goal to edge the visitors back in front.
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Patients may feel palpitations or a thump in the chest when a beat compensates for a prior missed beat.
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The limitations of party competition Schumpeter's redefinition of democracy as a method has been extremely influential.
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“Elitist” to a GOP/Bush leg humping suckhole means “reader” ..
Think Progress » Perry: Anyone Who’s Not A ‘Rank Political Hack’ Realizes That Bush Was A ‘Very, Very Good President’
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BROWN: That's Hank Paulson's deputy there being called a chump by a member of Congress.
CNN Transcript Nov 14, 2008
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She swallowed a humph, then nearly groaned aloud when, clapping her hands, Lady Hightham urged them to gather around for some music.
ON A WICKED DAWN
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And I can hear the clump clump clump of the three posh post-university flatsharing chums thumping about their flat upstairs, slamming doors, shouting to each other and walking heavy-footed across my dream-flat.
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Yep, aggressive lyrics and guitar riffs, all backed by the trademark thumping drums, with only moments of calm to provide a respite from the headbanging.
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All the king's men and all the king's money won't be able to put this humpty dumpty together again," said Romney spokesman Stuart Stevens.
Obama's 2nd-Quarter Campaign Funding Tops Rivals
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The Makah were renowned whale hunters and stratigraphic unit V yielded the remains of at least 67 animals, mainly humpbacks and greys.
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I mean, maybe they'd rather jolly a single party, with all home comforts as wives or mistresses, than be thumped by four different randies every night.
Isabelle
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Not even big humps can unsettle the Hydractive suspension which also stops the car rolling severely in tight bends.
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But why do successful people allow voyeurs to poke around their personal lives in the certain knowledge that they will end up looking chumps?
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In the scenes set within the club, superbly loud music makes your subwoofers thump and your rump shake and roll.
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It's more about continuing improvement, but obviously the end goal has to be to win the World Cup - without making any tub-thumping promises.
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The bass guitar began to thump so loudly that it resonated in my head.
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Animals civilise a building, and it is a pity that Mrs Blair, no cat-lover, was blamed for the dismissal of Humphrey, a dignified and sagacious mouser.
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The first Humphrey’s latitu-dinous baver with puggaree behind, (calaboose belong bigboss belong Kang the Toll) his fourinhand bow, his elbaroom surtout, the refaced unmansionables of gingerine hue, the state slate umbrella, his gruff woolselywellesly with the finndrinn knopfs and the gauntlet upon the hand which in an hour not for him solely evil had struck down the might he mighthavebeen d’Est-erre of whom his nation seemed almost already to be about to have need.
Finnegans Wake
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The milking machines thump like a distant drum.
Times, Sunday Times
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Immediately she heard the sound of shoes thumping from the other side of the house.
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There were so many loopholes and shelters that only the chumps got that big of a bite taken out of their pockets - hench the alternative minimum tax was created.
Matthew Yglesias » The Case for More Tax Brackets
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And just because you don't see 45 million tub-thumpers doesn't mean that we don't have them.
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You've got to have courage, " he said, thumping his chest.
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Fellow MEPs hurled abuse at Mr Berlusconi and thumped their desks in the European Parliament Chamber in dismay.
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Spend six to eight hours a day on the water with giant blue whales, finbacks and humpbacks as you assist researchers with data collection.
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The sea cows went on schlooping and grazing, and chumping in the weed and Kotick asked them questions in every language that he had picked up in his travels; and the Sea People talk nearly as many languages as human beings.
The Jungle Book.
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Her heart thumped and a cold clamminess filtered into every pore of her skin.
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The beauty of Humphrey's work is that his mind is active on so many levels at once.
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Here, Schumpeter provides a brilliant and pertinent explanation of the mechanism whereby non-banks can become creators of ‘circulating medium’ and credit.
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Road humps have been laid down to limit the speed of cars along the road.
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Almost on the verge of the steep-to wall of rock was a large and regularly built "humpy," in which Douglas Fraser and Kate lived.
Tom Gerrard
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I just stand there with a sheepish grin, my heart thumping like a foundry hammer.
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Alanis thumped the heavy metal knocker against the door.
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He felt a thump on his shoulder.
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But it is also an exquisitely coded and exploitative masterpiece of tub-thumping demagoguery.
Times, Sunday Times
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He is likely to be more upbeat, less highbrow, but nonetheless less tub-thumping than most home affairs spokesmen when he speaks to delegates at 3pm today.
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A person does not take one emotional thump in the face and willingly put himself up for more.
Times, Sunday Times
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My favourite episode consisted of Bill Odie dressed in breeches and a flat cap wielding a black pudding ... well just hitting people with the black pudding in a demonstration of the ancient martial art of 'ecky thumph'.
If You Only Knew the Power of the Dumb Side....
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At least I no longer have to hump the zinc bath in from the backyard.
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It is then that, stripped for a brief moment of our armour of complacency and self-esteem, we see ourselves as we are -- frightful chumps in a world where nothing goes right; a grey world in which, hoping to click, we merely get the raspberry; where, animated by the best intentions, we nevertheless succeed in perpetrating the scaliest bloomers and landing our loved ones neck-deep in the gumbo.
Jill the Reckless
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He would be up on his feet thumping, and telling us that repeal was the option.
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The best a guy with prurient interests gets to see is one glimpse of Reneé Humphrey, and a few fairly hot scenes of women kissing.
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I came flying from the back seat and thumped my head on the windscreen.
Times, Sunday Times
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There's never a constable around when you need one so the only recourse was that taken by the driver of a bus who sat thumping the horn repeatedly until the twerp came along to move and clear the jam.
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In January 2009, Gordon Brown submitted a recipe for rumbledethumps to a cookbook for Donaldson's School for the Deaf, describing it as his favourite food
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
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Humpies and dogs are jumping their skittery jumps along the skin of the water.
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He began thumping the table and insisting the paper install experienced management.
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From the skull extends the spine of the whale, and the hump of the whale rises above the larger vertebrae.
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You are going to hump it around airport terminals, on and off trains and buses.
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The secretary of Elizabeth I's Privy Council is supposed to have submitted the warrant for the execution of Mary Stuart several times, concealed in a pile of lesser bumf, to help the Queen get over the hump.
Discourse.net: Pardon Update (Updated)
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And he said there was another camel with two humps, and he was created for riding, and was called a dromedary, and when ye rode him, ye sat at your ease between the two humps, which made a soft saddle, just like an arm-chair ye straddled on, only without arms.
For Fortune and Glory A Story of the Soudan War
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District council deputy leader Chris Humphries from Aldbourne is one of the few councillors who sits as a member of all three local authorities at parish, district and county level.
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I saw one group of traders run off like a startled herd, humping their bags of bags, while three police, like a pack of hunting dogs, scragged the least nimble.
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In reality, however, they are merely endorsing the dopey brand of entertainment industry tub-thumping that he has done so much to encourage.
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Walking slowly forwards, he arches his dark forelegs over his head, then suddenly thumps them down, all the time his dark palps quivering under his face.
Country diary: Orwell, Cambridgeshire
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One can only imagine the heart pounding, blood thumpin ', adrenaline shootin' high, that a man gets when he sees one of these beauty's in the wild outdoors!
Record Bucks of History
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Officer Humphrey fired the last shot from the magnum.
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Both sisters described a nightmarish existence inside the city where fighters controlled many areas, food and medicine were often in short supply, and the thumping concussions of US bombs had become a daily reality.
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It's very nice not to have to meet train or bus time tables, to hump baggage, nor to contend with taxi drivers taking you on a tour when your destination is just around the corner.
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Speech left me entirely then, and I am afraid I would have been most beautifully thumped, had not Sanders, the trainmaster, come over and stopped him.
Danger Signals Remarkable, Exciting and Unique Examples of the Bravery, Daring and Stoicism in the Midst of Danger of Train Dispatchers and Railroad Engineers
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A novel valve less piezoelectric pump with Cluster of Unsymmetrical Hump Structure ( CUHS ) is presented.
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The acquisition of LF Brian Giles does more than give the Padres a thumping lineup.
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The attention to culinary detail has already won the head chef national renown for a menu which includes chump of lamb with fondant potato, wild mushrooms and lentil jus, and vegetarian polenta, mushroom and artichoke ragout.
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Broadcaster John Humphrys recently attacked shows like Big Brother for their ‘mind-numbing, witless vulgarity.’
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When questioned by Sneddon, the youth told of making crank calls with Jackson, seeing the singer naked and witnessing Jackson "humping" a female mannequin he kept in his room.
The Accuser Speaks
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Two dull thumps came from behind him and he turned.
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This makes her very attractive to any gobblers, so be sure this deke is highly visible, up on a small knoll or hump if possible.
The Field Fakeout
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Waking at Dawn two single thoughts consumed her, -- the Lay Reader, and the humpiest of the express packages downstairs.
Peace on Earth, Good-will to Dogs
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In religion, he started as an ardent Catholic and then became a tub-thumping atheist.
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One man who has known him since those earliest days is Joe Miles, a kenspeckle figure in Ulster rugby, who was chairman of the selectors when Humphreys was first picked to represent the province.
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David's light caught the long-eared hump-backed shape of an aardvark, lumbering ahead of us at a steady trot.
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As he pressed his head hard to the man's chest he could hear the thump, thump of a healthy heart beat.
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Stair soothed the dog with one hand, for he could hear his heart thump in short laboured leaps as if after a long pursuit of a dog-fox on the hillside.
Patsy
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Applying increasing pressure on the brakes with 3,000 feet of runway to go, we felt a strong thump below the jet.
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Once again, there was the sound of footsteps thumping up the stairs.
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Filed under Celluloid, Roundup, Vinyl · Tagged with dolly parton, humphrey bogart
2009 December : Scrubbles.net
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He tries to thump a couple from that over through cover, but mistimes it.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
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The concept was revived in the early 20th century by economists Joseph Schumpeter and Frank Knight.
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She heard another thump, and then the creaking of floorboards, very faint, almost undetectable.
LOST SUMMER
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Dave thumped the table in frustration .
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Yet once they start dancing, the effect is pure gold: the thumpy rhythms of their feet on the wooden floor of a park pavilion, the couple's shared power and mutual athleticism, their whizzing quickstep that feels like the Earth's been knocked off its axis and the effortless, ecstatic, romantic joy of it all.
Ginger Rogers at 100: Even with Astaire, always taking the lead
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The release goes on to list a number of chest-thumping accomplishments guaranteed to induce yawns among anyone who knows better.
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Visitors to the site where a humpback whale beached itself at the weekend were shocked to discover the mammal had already been put down yesterday.
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They have two distinct camel humps of fat on their behinds.
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A calf will hump up onto the back of the sleeping mother, breach onto her, cover her blowhole with his tail.
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She couldn't get her breath and had to be thumped on the back.
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And he added the second with a thumping header right on half-time.
The Sun
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For the _cordon-bleu_ hoped that the lion would exhibit disapproval of the paint and powder by chumping off the offending head, and that would have been frightfully thrilling.
Our Stage and Its Critics By "E.F.S." of "The Westminster Gazette"
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Hardly anybody now alive is old enough ever to have seen and heard that boisterous old callithump known as a "dyke," which was famous enough once upon a time.
In the days of my youth when I was a student in the University of Virginia, 1888-1893.
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I've been in rivalries where we just, for some reason, can't get over a hump against a certain team.
NFL - National Football League - Tampa Bay vs. Philadelphia
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When a humpback is corralling herring and other fishes, the net may be 150 feet wide.
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Bentley composed the first clerihew about Sir Humphrey Davy, the chemist credited with isolating and naming aluminum.
And Today Is… - Freakonomics Blog - NYTimes.com
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I had determined to seek elsewhere for a more social party, when the thumping of tables and gingle of glasses induced me to abide the issue.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, November 27, 1841
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The thump of a stapler, the snick of a ballpoint, the rattle of paper, the bass crepitation of the mail cart against the carpet.
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Who is he whose hair is of the carroty hue? whose eyes, across a snubby bunch of a nose, are perpetually scowling at each other; who has a hump-back and a hideous mouth, surrounded with bristles, and crammed full of jutting yellow odious teeth.
A Legend of the Rhine
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And it was indeed a position, rather than a point of view -- a vehement, tub-thumping position -- that Hitchens always took as a matter of course, whatever the subject in hand.
Roger Housden: Hitchens: Arch-Fundamentalist?
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Cabarets, bean-counting contests, lotteries and callithumpian methods generally marked a period in Canada's recruiting history not pleasant to review, and which brought discredit upon the entire voluntary enlistment system as a permanent method of filling up armies.
Kelly Miller's History of the World War for Human Rights
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Her heart thumped wildly as she was welcomed by familiar faces.
THE WOLF AND THE DOVE
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The jibes that he was nothing more than a gaffe-prone, tub-thumping populist hurt because they were perilously close to the truth.
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Live music thumps out of the bars and clubs, a music scene that has produced artists as varied as The Undertones and Dana.
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And it's true that tub-thumpers looking for explicit invectives against the former Mayor will want to take their ire elsewhere.
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Chump: To chew or make a chewing movement.
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The music thumps in his ears as the wind and other cars speed by in a swirl of motion and color.
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The bassline thumps and voices declaim, growl or howl.
Times, Sunday Times
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‘If I got hold of the person who did it, I'd chop their hands off,’ said Mrs Humphries, who is a member of the residents' association and discovered they had been robbed on Saturday morning.
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But the noise of sailors swearing, pigs squealing, chickens squawking, children bawling and fathers threatening them with the backs of their hands brought them back to reality with a thump.
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He says nothing about the Dutch SP Arty bty that has been happily thumping the s***t out of baddies, sometimes in sp of Canadians.
Daimnation!: Afstan: The sainted Dutch, or Mr Smith goes to Uruzgan
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Among the English classics will be steak and kidney pudding, lamb chump chops, topside of beef, bangers and mash, and fish, chips and peas.
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What they forgot to take into account, however, is that you do not hear the primary charge of a rifle being fired if you are more than 100 metres from it, you only hear the "thwack" or "crack" of the bullet passing overhead, followed by a MUTED primary charge thump (weapon firing).
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
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She was petite and had a dowager's hump or minor hunchback.
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If you go to a world championship boxing match, you know, one of the boxers will come in inevitably thumping his fists in time with the drumbeat.
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Champions Nestlé Rowntree continued their 100 per cent start to the season by thumping hosts Whitkirk Wanderers 5-0.
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But as the Times reports today, the silly chumps now realise this might not have been too clever.
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He is not a tub-thumper but no one can doubt his commitment.
Times, Sunday Times
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A collision with one of the Home Nations feels made for his tub-thumping aggression and inspiration.
Chelsea fans salute the 'one England captain' but John Terry must wait | Dominic Fifield
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He snorted indignantly, and walked away across the tram rails, his hump quivering with rage.
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It was a regular antheap all the way in, with the miners crawling over the tree-clad slopes, and the ceaseless thump of picks and scrape of shovels and ring of axes, and ramshackle huts and shanties and sluice-boxes everywhere, with dirty bearded fellows in slouch hats and galluses cussing and burrowing, and claim signs all along Sweetheart Mine, Crossbone Diggings, Damyereyes Gulch, and the like.
Isabelle
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The average guy who buys a mutual fund is not an investor at all; he's a chump, a patsy, a schmuck.
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Alexander's new job is to tub-thump for more business start-ups, better training, better skilling, raising our business horizons.
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I would say, China will be like a fragile humpty dumpty sitting in the middle of fence and fall into preys of modern colonisation/capitalism.
Global Voices in English » China: The Founding of a Republic
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Generally a guy called Martand would start thumping the desk and everyone would follow suit.
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Well, are McCain and Palin are holding this girl now -- who apparently got impregnated at age 16, which is something that doesn't sit well with many of us, including those of who thump Bibles as if they were tympany -- in front of themselves to hold off the inevitable:
McCain Campaign: Palin's 17-Year-Old Daughter Is Pregnant
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During our dinner conversation he told me all about her and said that one of his qualifications for a wife was that she had to have Christian beliefs, but not act like a "Bible thumper.
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The research also indicates that 100 mm-high humps pose a greater possibility of pollution, property and vehicle damage and grounding, specifically to buses, emergency vehicles and hearses.
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Well! I guess I'll turn in and get to sleep before those fool engines start chump-chumping under my pillow.
The Shadow of the East
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How many “Bible-thumpers” have you seen calling evolutionists stupid for believing what is taught to them in public schools?
300 secular students visit Ken Ham's Creation “Museum” - The Panda's Thumb
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As an auxiliary to the bilging by boring, the masts are often cut away under the pretence of making her "lie easy," or to prevent "thumping."
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It was not until Harry S Truman added civil rights to the 1948 party platform - under pressure from the mayor of Minneapolis, Hubert Humphrey - and desegrated the armed forces that the Democrats were identified with the civil rights movement.
January 2004
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He is a believer, attends church once a month but is 'not a tub-thumper'.
Times, Sunday Times
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Likewise, back at the ranch, the Godless blue states rank, on average, ahead of the Bible-thumping red states on such hot-button morality indicators as divorce, unwed mothers and domestic violence.
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The first was a familiar swell of pained and wincing why-oh-whying as it became clear that the Premier League's most consistently infuriating club would not win a trophy this season: talk of callowness, foreign-accented surrenderism and a crucial absence of Anglophone chest-thump.
Arsenal's failure to win trophies is not down to faint hearts | Barney Ronay
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It is a rarity among Washington-insider memoirs - it's a thumping good read.
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Many HIV positive gay men don't want to go to clubs because visible side effects of antiretroviral drugs like lipodystrophy (muscle wasting), lipoatrophy (facial wasting) and the "buffalo hump" (irregular fat deposits in the body) cause them to be singled out and ridiculed.
WN.com - Financial News
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He provides a sketch of a creature with the head of an elephant, a fishlike body with a camel hump, four legs like a lion, and a forked tail like a fish.
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We all know that sort of transaction: the squabbling, and gobbling, and popping of champagne; the smell of musk and lobster-salad; the dowagers chumping away at plates of raised pie; the young lassies nibbling at little titbits, which the dexterous young gentlemen procure.
Mrs. Perkins's Ball
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He thumped the report down on my desk.
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But it very quickly degenerates into a flatfooted, predictable affair with a thumpingly earnest moral message.
Times, Sunday Times
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Spring is sprung, hormones are jumping, hearts are thumping and the seasonal cycle of attraction's in full swing once more.
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Daisy leaned down to thump him on the back while she beamed at Kimberly 's shocked face.
KISS AN ANGEL
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Nicholas Humphrey's project, to establish a theory of how consciousness evolved, begins by returning to sensation.
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Paragraph 159 - [1056] - And Humphrey died, and his brother Robert [Guiscard] became duke [of the Normans].
De Re Militari: The Society for Medieval Military History » The Career of Robert Guiscard, according to the Annales Lupi Protospatharii
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Wouldn't this make him a set-up for an oily huckster who sold lame horses with a false hump?
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He was the sort of person who would angrily thump the table and shout at the radio during political discussion programmes.
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The chump of lamb and Scottish sirloin are commendable, and there is a wide range of vegetarian options.
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But in the eyes of the media anyway, they are either champs or chumps, depending on their current performance.
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Among the English classics will be steak and kidney pudding, lamb chump chops, topside of beef, bangers and mash, and fish, chips and peas.
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A cold sweat ran over me, and my heart began thumping violently, almost painfully, in my chest.
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I wanted to be "Cornteeth" but it was taken getting un fat and a new kind of humpy
Whitehelmet Diary Entry
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The recorder captured the sounds of loud thumps, crashes, shouts, and breaking glasses and plates.
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He thumped a chance over the bar.
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Sometimes I feel like a chump driving a car, especially in a big city with decent public transport.
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Not the cadent rattle of the thin cylindrical drums the Trivigauntis used, but the steady _thumpa-thumpa-thump_ of Vironese war drums, drums that suggested the palaestra's big copper stew-pot whenever she saw them, war drums beating out the quickstep used to draw up troops in order of battle.
Exodus From The Long Sun
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Humphreys has drawn a fairly high-aspect, cutter-optimized sloop rig for the boat with a lot of emphasis on the versatility of the foretriangle.
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This possibility was addressed by Humphries et al. who used a number of experimental and modeling approaches, based on bioenergetics, to predict effects of climate warming on the distribution of northern mammals.
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I feel that calming has a significant effect on vehicles: cars travelling at excessive speeds would create a series of noises from each ‘hump’.
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Field surveys were conducted to measure the heights and widths of humps.
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Haworth move into second place after thumping visitors Ingrow St John's by nine wickets.
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I truly hate traffic engineers along with the rest of you - all their road humps and chicanes and one-way systems getting between me and where I want to get to.
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Caz grinded across the whole wall and ollied into the bank, nailing a photo chump in the process.
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For the stimulus sceptics really do think they can put humpty dumpty together again, and that “aggregate demand”, as Cowen puts it, is a less “fundamental” problem than the financial service sector collapse.
Matthew Yglesias » What Instead?
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This was a recognized role among the men involved, and Humphreys was accepted as a normal part of this activity.
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I came flying from the back seat and thumped my head on the windscreen.
Times, Sunday Times
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An officer who headed them addressed Humphrey in a haughty tone, and asked him who he was.
The Children of the New Forest
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The collaborative team led by UCL Professor Steve Humphries studied the TCF7L2 gene, which was discovered to be implicated in diabetes earlier this year by a group working in Iceland.
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That said, the sporty T5 version can thump and bang over bad bumps, the downside of its quicker, meatier responses and extra grip.
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A thumping defeat at this point in time could have done some serious damage to morale.
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Black spindle-legs curled up to meet red-gimleted black faces, donkeys headless and legless, or sieves of shrapnel; camels with necks writhed back on to their humps, rotting already in pools of blood and bile-yellow water, heads without faces, and faces without anything below, cobwebbed arms and legs, and black skins grilled to crackling on smouldering palm-leaf -- don't look at it.
From Capetown to Ladysmith An Unfinished Record of the South African War
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She gave the television a good thump, and the picture came back.
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I had my base camp here" — a red square — "and I was tracking this humpback lacertilian through here" — dotted yellow meanders.
Perseus Spur
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After a family feud led him to sacrifice his brother Chumpol as education minister in 1998, Banharn ran the portfolio through a proxy.
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After four hours of climbing the near vertical mountain footpath, the headache had matured into a persistent thump with each heartbeat.
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I don't enjoy humping heavy furniture around all day.
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In an about-turn, Justice Humphrey Stollmeyer ruled in favour on Friday of the four policemen, and ordered that each receive $100,000 in damages.
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Voices still chattered in the hallway, doors squeaked open, slammed shut, feet thumped, tramped up and down the stairs.
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The bully we mentioned in number 2, who has grown up a lot and become mates with my brother, notices this, and gives the lad a talking-to, and let's be honest, a thump.
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She thumped the table with her fist.
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Humphredus Gilbert Eques, Americæ oras Hifpanis incognitas, magno animo viribus, fucceffu non aequali noftris aperire conatus eft.
Thomas Hariot
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Over his not entirely clean white collar you could see his Adam's apple thumping.
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If presenters like Humphrys, who could in one unguarded moment destroy the corporation's reputation, do not follow instructions, might not that create the slackness that leads to disaster?
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After a wobbly period Chelsea fight back: a long punt forward nearly puts Gudjohnsen in, and then Gallas's 40-yard thumper bounces just past Kahn's post.
