humpbacked

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• Police said the Citroën Saxo was travelling along the A19 towards Selby when the driver lost control and left the road on a humpbacked bridge next to the crossroads.
• On the shallow reef shelter schools of humpbacked and bluelined snappers, oriental sweetlips and yet more fat, docile groupers.
• We saw, after that, a diminutive humpbacked gallant, pretty near us, taking leave of a she-relation of his, thus: Fare thee well, friend hole; she reparteed, Save thee, friend peg. Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
• She described a hideous humpbacked creature with stumpy horns, and bristles down the back of a long neck.
• The Moscow-based Russian National Ballet Theatre will perform an evening of favorite scenes from “Sleeping Beauty,” “The Humpbacked Horse,” “Carmen,” “Don Quixote,” “La Bayadére” and “Paquita,” as well as complete concert works such as Fokine’s “The Dying Swan.” Kansas City Star: Front Page
• She prosecuted her trade too with every attention to its diminished income; shut up the windows of one half of her house, to baffle the tax-gatherer; retrenched her furniture; discharged her pair of post-horses, and pensioned off the old humpbacked postilion who drove them, retaining his services, however, as an assistant to a still more aged hostler. Saint Ronan's Well
• We leaned over a humpbacked stone bridge looking at the trout basking in the crystal water.
• Camel trekking is an activity that matches man with a foul-tempered, humpbacked beast that sinisterly hisses and cavalierly drops to its haunches when it no longer feels compelled to carry you. Dunes Struck
• The ostler and humpbacked postilion, one bearing a stable-lantern and a hay-fork, the other a rushlight and a broom, constituted the advanced guard; Mrs. Dods herself formed the centre, talking loud and brandishing a pair of tongs; while the two maids, like troops not to be much trusted after their recent defeat, followed, cowering in the rear. Saint Ronan's Well
• The angel nun, the devil nun — Ingrid Bergman radiant in renunciation, Vanessa Redgrave in The Devils, grotesque and humpbacked, bleeding on her knees while she says the Sorrowful Mysteries. Women of God