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  • This close-up view of what had been trumpeted as the greatest army on earth provided facts which took time to absorb. KARA KUSH
  • A six-time Grammy nominee (talk about frustration), Elling has released six albums of audacious vocalese that trumpet his daring range and intellectualism.
  • The promise of tax cuts proved, as always, to be the Republican Party's trump card.
  • Moray eels, garfish and trumpetfish were roaming and snapping at a plethora of potential prey.
  • I went into the office to find the offender, and saw a worried woman crumpled in a chair in the corner, wearing a look of weariness and doubt.
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  • All yellowhammers have striking, rusty-coloured, unstreaked rumps which are most attractive.
  • And that was all my poor cousin got by making his old mistress his new wife — not a drum, not a trumpet, not a fife, not a tabret, nor the expectation of a new joy, to animate him on! Clarissa Harlowe
  • Rubiochico,) "which was fast swamping the sparkling stars, like a bright river flowing over diamonds, when the old gander again set up his gabblement and trumpeted more loudly than before. Tom Cringle's Log
  • It is best for 5 or 4 players, and features a novel and ingenious method of bidding to choose the trumps and partnerships.
  • Just as trumpeters wore distinctive uniforms, so too they rode distinctive horses, usually greys, to aid recognition.
  • Moving Houses was commissioned by the Kronos Quartet, but here it is played (in a revised version) by the frumpily named Ethel.
  • The cheapest way I can think of to make people feel like they owe you is to have a crumply cardboard sign saying "Will Work For Food" and hold it up near a busy intersection. Don't Do Me Any Favors, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
  • Maybe I should bring along my trumpet to liven things up! The Sun
  • But then he decided to play his trump card .
  • Holding the chain railing, we followed our leader and had up-close encounters with yellow tails, sergeant majors, blue tang, trumpet fish, and other reef dwellers.
  • He considers the mode of assorting the cards in each hand; often counting trump by trump, and honor by honor, through the glances bestowed by their holders upon each. The Murders in the Rue Morgue
  • The shelty came down over the rump of a red bullock, and Sim was sprawling on his face in the trampled grass. The Moon Endureth: Tales and Fancies
  • The ambulance that followed was wrecked, panels ripped off and the front crumpled by the crowds. Times, Sunday Times
  • Then trumpeters played a fanfare, fireworks boomed and crackled across the sky and children from schools on either side of the river waved flags and exchanged huge greetings cards to commemorate new links between their communities.
  • There are some things a chappie's mind absolutely refuses to picture, and Aunt Julia singing 'Rumpty-tiddley-umpty-ay' is one of them. The Man with Two Left Feet And Other Stories
  • The escalade was to be attempted by a band of ten; five of the trumpeters and buglemen were selected and four centurions, the Ligurian was to be their guide. A History of Rome During the Later Republic and Early Principate
  • That he sloped off during an Eton v Harrow match to buy a trumpet, which cost £1, may not have been what his school and his parents intended, but it set him on a course which over the years has brought joy and instruction to many.
  • The trumpets blared as the procession got under way.
  • It is a rebuke to those who grumpily accept their snail-paced status quo. Times, Sunday Times
  • He came from a musical family, and he played the trumpet and the saxophone and had a fondness for jazz. Times, Sunday Times
  • We will all be 50 and I would like to look cool and trendy rather than old and frumpy. Times, Sunday Times
  • The Senate can have suffect consuls appointed for the rump of the year. Antony and Cleopatra
  • Although the entire cut is referred to as the tapa, this term is also used for the top of the cut, source of rump roast. Choice Cut Or Mystery Meat? A Guide To Mexican Butcher Shops: Part I - Beef
  • It's strumpets like you who are setting back the women's rights movement.
  • For Huysmans, kirsch is the "wild blowing of a trumpet blast. Do They Taste of Trumpets?
  • Dizzy was a real killer on the trumpet.
  • Five steps up the dirt path, my trachea crumpled, my vertebrae fused, and the small muscles in my back revolted and spasmed.
  • But she also comes across as a humourless frump, needing constant cajoling from her husband to stay afloat.
  • WC Fields looms round and grumpy, his bulbous nose glowing, piggy eyes shut from lack of sleep.
  • It's only four dudes, but together they play drums, guitar, keys, upright bass, trumpet, flugel horn and assorted "electronics. The Drift - Invisible (Music (For Robots))
  • Anyway, we grumped our way into town and did eventually get energised by it all and got through the whole session in good time.
  • Civil defence, police and the military worked throughout the morning to search for survivors and recover bodies amid the crumpled and charred cars. Times, Sunday Times
  • The voice was low, and he sounded like those people who were grumpy all the time.
  • The results show that, as fluid passes through each rib, a trumpet-shaped vortex is generated from the upstream vertex of the rib, shaping a region with high value of heat transfer coefficient (HTC).
  • She fans her movements outward toward the sides of the body like a semaphore of swooping and crumpling limbs.
  • Likewise, a few citation errors in the IPCC report were trumpeted as the final nails in the coffin for the climate movement, despite the fact that not a single investigation even those in which climate skeptics have participated has found any evidence thatscientists "fudged,""manipulated" or "manufactured" data, and the fundamental conclusions of the IPCC still stand. Kelly Rigg: The Movement with a Thousand Faces
  • The Buttery in Glasgow will be especially missed - all warm glows and scrumptious food.
  • The mallards, golden-eyes and trumpeters were still there, working the shallows of the river for aquatic plants.
  • I could tell, even with the crumpling, that it was an interoffice memo. DOWNTOWN
  • It is determined to cheer up the region's grumps.
  • The map gone!" and he seized the candle from Bud's hand, and, holding it so that its light illuminated the whole bunk, stared wildly down on the rumpled surface of the rude bedtick, which now, the blankets having been thrown off, showed its entire surface to the light of the candle. The Cave of Gold A Tale of California in '49
  • The intertidal mudflats and coastal lagoons are important staging sites for migratory shorebirds, including red knot Calidris canutus, white-rumped sandpiper C. fuscicollis and Hudsonian godwit Limosa haemastica. Península Valdés, Argentina
  • There have been deals cut behind closed doors that are going to provide benefits for individual senators and their states, whether it's Vermont, Nebraska, or Florida," Chambliss grumped. Healthcare reform passes, freakout continues - poli
  • No wonder the fees quoted in America have caused such a rumpus. Times, Sunday Times
  • He yawned, leaning back in his chair and rumpling his hair.
  • Freddie played mellophone and then trumpet as a teenager. Freddie Hubbard: “Children of The Night” (1963)
  • We were also greeted by a large man in rumpled chef's whites and a rakish black beret, a handkerchief knotted jauntily around his neck.
  • He kept on taking too many tricks as I seemed to be able to undertrump him the entire game. Archive 2006-03-01
  • He looked rumpled, in an unironed plaid shirt and khakis that suddenly appeared too short, bits of his dark socks visible between hem and shoe. Ann Packer's 'Molten': Narrative Magazine's Friday Feature
  • How about trumpeting what you think makes your product good in a positive way?
  • We have Kebbi Williams on tenor sax, Maurice Brown on trumpet, and Saunders Sermons on trombone. Mike Ragogna: Keb' Mo's "...Enchilada," Plus Chats with Susan Tedeschi, Derek Trucks, Alex Miller, Flogging Molly's Dave King, and Lindi Ortega
  • It looks like a mother uncrumpling papers in her son's backpack to find a missing assignment.
  • Currently, a crumpled “riser” pipe is preventing the full flow of oil – like a kinked garden hose – though reports suggest it is gradually deteriorating. Balloon Juice » Blog Archive » Ninety Days of Hell from Decades of Neglect
  • Mr Morgan crumpled to the ground with a fractured rib, collapsed lung and bruising.
  • Arnold Schwarzenegger, Donald Trump, Vice-President Dick Cheney, and dozens of others on the long-running sketch series, tells GossipCop. com that “retired from the show last year.” “SNL” Conan/Leno Parody, Featuring Larry King & David Letterman [VIDEO]
  • Students entering the dining hall made an eager rumpus.
  • Byron Wallen switches between trumpet and flugelhorn, whilst Ed Jones likewise moves from soprano to tenor horns.
  • It began as a way of pacifying her when she was in a rare grumpy mood, and now it's the reason we go to Target.
  • The reeds and trumpets sounded a little muddy and unfocused on the opener, Bake. Times, Sunday Times
  • Steady on, the reason we men liked her was because she was a tremendously attractive and sexy piece of crumpet
  • The thought of seeing 40 faces simultaneously crumple with disbelief was too much for us to bear.
  • Instead of seeking melody, listeners grew satisfied with crump-crump rhythm.
  • Trumpf will display the VectorMark compact, a valuable tool for various industrial and commercial marking tasks.
  • The next thing I remember is trying to uncrumple myself from the space on the passenger side where my feet had been moments before.
  • Gwen, rumpling the hair of the birdman who'd called her princess. THE GOLDEN LION
  • So what you feel trumps my facts that are based solely on her own words, how lib is that! Senators signal fierce ideological debate in Sotomayor hearings
  • Ball after ball was lofted into the Colt goalmouth but time and again their defence came up trumps as they repelled attack after attack.
  • The government has been trumpeting tourism as a growth industry.
  • In four days of diving last summer, I often spotted colorful stoplight parrotfish, doctorfish, sergeant majors, trumpetfish, four-eye butterfly fish, squirrelfish and school masters. Gaea Times (by Simple Thoughts) Breaking News and incisive views 24/7
  • Don't bother with the scenic railway, grumped the driver who picked us up from the Megalong Valley once we'd landed.
  • Synths, banjo, trumpet, and anything else found around the studio gets thrown in, creating the feeling of some sort of strange, postmodern hootenanny.
  • To this end M. Saint-Saens wrote his fine septette for piano, trumpet, two violins, viola, violoncello, and double bass; and M. Vincent d'Indy his romantic suite in D for trumpet, two flutes, and string instruments.] Musicians of To-Day
  • If you don't want to use a squeegee, you can wipe the windows with lint-free cloth, imitation chamois, or crumpled newspapers.
  • The side of the car was crumpled, both air bags had deployed and big band music was blaring through the windows. Times, Sunday Times
  • Trust is like a piece of paper. Once it's crumpled, it'll never be perfect again.
  • She simply crumpled in front of me. Times, Sunday Times
  • In the scenes set within the club, superbly loud music makes your subwoofers thump and your rump shake and roll.
  • Once you get to a size 14 you find that most swimwear in the shops is dowdy and frumpy. The Sun
  • The scoring is for a simple classical orchestra, strings, double woodwind, four horns and two trumpets.
  • Kenny Wheeler, the expat Canadian trumpeter and jazz composer, was 82 last week – but this big band session featuring new themes and plenty of flugelhorn improvising, was recorded only a few months ago. Kenny Wheeler: The Long Waiting – review
  • Annmarie, the cake looks scrump and I like your detour with cherries. The Daring Bakers: Perfect Party Cake
  • A screaming-chorus of local popstrels accompanies one song, a marching band of local trumpeters and saxophonists another.
  • The so-called birther issue has driven many of Trump's TV appearances, including a much-talked about interview with NBC's Today Show on April 7. Is Donald Trump the first Google trends candidate?
  • Vienna's trump cards include concerts in the palaces where Mozart made music.
  • Hallucigenia" hits a good cross section of themes and set pieces central to my work -- hard bitten protagonists, dark cults, insanity, gratuitous rumpy pumpy, esoteric lore, super science, monsters, and cosmic horror all tangled up in pulp-noir webbing. INTERVIEW: Laird Barron
  • Their goal is to create a car capable of trumping its gasoline-powered counterpart by 2010.
  • The jalfrezi is a scrumptious curry that originates from the ancient Mogul era of India. WalesOnline - Home
  • You left out the bush whackers, rump rangers, fifth column traitors, child pornographers, baby rapers, brain addled dope smoking malcontents, serial abortionists, incorrigible violent criminals and drug pushers as well as the Clintons that make up the Filthy Left wing of the Liberal Losers. Think Progress » Rumsfeld on Iran Today = Rumsfeld on Iraq in 2002
  • The Australians were like old-time pirates in their trumpeting of free trade. YESTERDAY'S SHADOW
  • He jumped off of his beast, a beautiful buckskin, and patted it on the rump.
  • The darling yellow trumpets are thrusting up in fir and birch woods across Scotland for our delight. Times, Sunday Times
  • Several species of hummingbirds flit about the blooms of the Arizona trumpet and the desert honeysuckle, while the rat-tat-tat of five different kinds of woodpeckers may be heard.
  • Imagine children having tea, inevitably squabbling over the buns, teacakes, muffins and - this being a British expression - crumpets.
  • Entire avian families are essentially confined to the Neotropics, as are such unique species as screamers, trumpeters, sunbittern, hoatzin, and boat-billed heron.
  • Hilary Clinton's status as an erstwhile Obama rival might undermine the traditional trump card of a secretary of state.
  • But this particular morning, my tears were salted with frustration and exhaustion as my body and soul crumpled, overwhelmed by the weight of empathy. Christianity Today
  • The audio is sure to give the venue's newly upgraded sound system a thorough breaking-in, while the images transport with a hypnogogic flow of abstract patterns conjured through digital manipulations of a dozen shots of what looks like crumpled aluminum foil. Sad Sacks and Barrels of Laughs
  • Hawk_, _The Tunning of_ Elianer Rumpkin: In many of which, following the humor of the ancientest of our Modern Poets, he takes a Poetical The Lives of the Most Famous English Poets (1687)
  • The royal visitor was saluted by a fanfare of trumpets.
  • Tuneful trumpeters joined harmonious horn players at Bury Music Centre when they staged annual concert performances.
  • With 320 students in snappy blue and white uniforms playing shiny trumpets, trombones and tubas as they march in briskly changing formations, the band's numbers are full of razzmatazz.
  • the brilliant sound of the trumpets
  • There is lots of humor to leaven the suspense, as Christie fans will expect, particularly in scenes where Poirot gets to trump suspects who have treated him dismissively.
  • We had reached the outer court by this, and were hurrying for the bridge that led to the pontlevis when we saw a tall man, his cuirass glittering like silver in the moonlight, step out of the shadow and signal to a trumpeter, who stood at his side. Orrain A Romance
  • How am I supposed to maintain a good grump with you being so damned cute?
  • Madeleine burst out laughing at my grumpy expression and threw one of her pillows at me.
  • Listen, son: I am saying this as you lie asleep, one little paw crumpled under your cheek and the blond curls stickily wet on your damp forehead.
  • “What?” he yelled back from what he called their rumpus room. Star Struck
  • The much trumpeted 39,000 more seats at peak times is an annual figure and in fact amounts to 107 seats per day. Times, Sunday Times
  • A-T-K-K-Q-Q-J of trumps would score 190 for a run plus a marriage in trumps.
  • A quarter of an hour thus passed; then suddenly one of the elephants trumpeted, and a tremendous crashing in the reeds ensued.
  • Down in the canyon, I often see the house wren, acorn and Nuttall's woodpeckers, wrentit, and, in winter, the yellow-rumped warbler.
  • In 2007, the U.S. released him to Saudi Arabia, where he underwent a much-trumpeted religious "deradicalization" program for jihadists that clearly didn't take. Macleans.ca
  • Apart from the placement and numbering of the Fool, the most significant change made by Mathers to the trumps was the counterchange in the numbers and locations of the trumps Justice and Strength.
  • He trumpeted his son's high intelligence quotient.
  • And after a satisfying day of bird-watching, treat yourself to a scrumptious meal of Maryland's famous blue crabs, oysters, or a freshly caught fish.
  • An evening at the Magpie and Crown in Brentford was certainly lively, intellectually stimulating and at times hysterically funny; and I think their cask-conditioned scrumpy is probably at least twice the advertised strength... A busy weekend...
  • I think about July, the trumpet vine blaring from the pump house, morning glories bursting through the fence like pieces of sky. Peg nemeth | two by « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground
  • His Perseus is grumpy, whiny, and unpleasant, and not nearly the hero that could earn a place amongthe stars. Ray Subdues CLASH OF THE TITANS | Obsessed With Film
  • Drowsiness overcame her, and she crumpled to the floor, letting herself sink into dark oblivion.
  • Similarly, Tom on trumpet & flugelhorn, and Carlos on alto sax, are used for coloration far more often that they are given the spotlight.
  • We head toward the thrum and trumpet call of a loud bolero and enter the bar just as the six-man combo breaks into a loud rendition of ‘Chan Chan,’ the song made famous by the Buena Vista Social Club album.
  • The other trump card of the pessimists, erotic desire, is notoriously restless and insecure, and apt to deliver only partial fulfilments.
  • His rumpled clothes showed his indifference to convention. Times, Sunday Times
  • Fed-up bosses at a motor showroom came up trumps after offering a reward for the recovery of four stolen cars.
  • If you are cajoled by the cunning arguments of a trumpeter of heresy, or the praises of a puritanic old woman, is not that womanish? — The Abbot
  • Anne burnt the crumpled pages in the grate, including the blank pages underneath, all the way down to the first undented sheet. THE COMPANY OF STRANGERS
  • And good thing too, since one of the true joys of bean consumption is being able to re-enact the campfire scene from Blazing Saddles, although I've found it easier to convince the occasional date to engage in intimacies than to join in the butt trumpet serenading. Old Rice/New Rice....Old Beans/New Beans
  • The system that gives prominence to the Venturas, Trumps and Buchanans, and some of the parlour spooks contending for the Republican nomination, may seem weird.
  • The Park is an important breeding area for the pinkbacked pelican Pelecanus rufescens, white pelican P. onocrotalus, African fish-eagle Haliaeetus vocifer, Caspian tern Hydroprogne caspia, goliath heron Ardea goliath, rufous-bellied heron Butorides rufiventris, yellowbilled stork Mycteria ibis, pygmy goose Nettapus auritus, collared pratincole Glareola pratincola and greyrumped swallow Pseudohirondo griseopyga. Greater St Lucia Wetland Park, South Africa
  • Javier Oliva-Madrid carried about $18,000 in rumpled small bills into a Tysons Corner car dealership to help pay for a Toyota 4Runner. Probe reveals inner workings of ring shipping drugs from Mexico to D.C. area
  • Lunch on the likes of roast English lamb rump and summer vegetables. Times, Sunday Times
  • Here begins the manzanita, adjusting its tortuous stiff stems to the sharp waste of boulders, its pale olive leaves twisting edgewise to the sleek, ruddy, chestnut stems; begins also the meadowsweet, burnished laurel, and the million unregarded trumpets of the coral - red pentstemon. The Land of Little Rain
  • This is possible because of the trumping rule, which is different from that in whist or bridge.
  • We need a big powerful sound from the trumpets in the final passage.
  • The card is a froth of glitter and highly scrumpled clumps of tissue paper.
  • Again royalty gathered in grandeur, with trumpets blaring, to witness the baptism of Henry's daughter, Elizabeth.
  • Da mi operam parumper. paucis, Euclio, est quod te volo de communi re appellare mea et tua. Amphitryo, Asinaria, Aulularia, Bacchides, Captivi Amphitryon, The Comedy of Asses, The Pot of Gold, The Two Bacchises, The Captives
  • I'll bet many a life now being lived was conceived to the dulcet tones of F Sinatra directing the rhythm of the rumpy-pumpy. Giving evidence to the Chilcot inquiry, Tony Blair said: “I...
  • So he may appreciate the paradox of his lightning ascent in his second calling – not to mention the mutterings of those press-box colleagues who have toiled diligently for years without recognition from their trade's association and remember the days when they called him Captain Grumpy, a soubriquet he did his best to live up to. US hard courts will reveal if Andy Murray's lapses are part of a cycle | Kevin Mitchell
  • Sicut enim dicuntur aspides, quando incantantur, ut non prorumpant et exeant de cavernis suis, premere unam aurem ad terram, et de cauda sibi alteram obturare, et tamen incantator producit illas... Archive 2008-03-01
  • How many of them actually got used, I do not know - only that I found mine crumpled in my bag several days later.
  • The slight hills and dips in the fields became the crumples of a quilt not completely smoothed down.
  • Others wore vibrant traditional robes that recalled Makeba's own Afro chic - as well as the poet Langston Hughes's call to remember the dead with "one, blaring trumpet note of sun. Macleans.ca
  • Trumped-up charges of conspiracy to overthrow the queen, and an unjustly conducted prosecution, brought conviction of treason and hanging at Tyburn.
  • Although the media companies harrumph about the dangers of the new technology, they are all well aware of the lesson of the video, and the immense potential profitability of the new digital forms of distribution.
  • Seated in a large arm-chair, a smoking tumbler of mulled port before him, sat my friend Mike, dressed in my full regimentals, even to the helmet, which, unfortunately however for the effect, he had put on back foremost; a short "dudeen" graced his lip, and the trumpet so frequently alluded to lay near him. Charles O'Malley — Volume 2
  • On this recording, there are nine violins, three violas, three cellos, a double bass, one flute, three oboes, one bassoon, three trumpets, a set of timpani, and a harpsichord.
  • With hindsight, we know how his moral instinct trumped the evidence for the war and its legality.
  • The museum has been loudly trumpeting its reputation as one of the finest in the world.
  • [362-7] A clarion is a loud, clear-sounding trumpet. Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 6
  • The distinctive markings of pronghorns, especially the bright white rump patch, make them easy to spot.
  • The closure of the firm's multimillion research operation in Trumpington, Cambridge, is expected to result in the loss of up to 80 highly skilled jobs.
  • The room was in shambles and their master laid crumpled and bleeding on the floor.
  • His Straight brown hair fell half-combed across his forehead, and his clothes were clean but rumpled.
  • Four honours in hearts are to be preferred to any but a very strong no-trump declaration; but four aces counting 100 points constitute a no-trump declaration without exception. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria"
  • Another table design consisted of two-tiered crystal candelabras overflowing with white trumpet calla lilies and crystal embellishments. My Fair Wedding
  • We were walking along the path to our tents when a loud trumpeting stopped us in our tracks.
  • As her face aged and crumpled, it grew more interesting - but hers was not a beauty made to last. Times, Sunday Times
  • Fifteen minutes after reading that crumpled note, I handed my letter of resignation to the senior pastor. Christianity Today
  • Drifts of sea pinks coloured the soft grass of the cliff tops and house martins zipped by flashing their pure white rumps.
  • His rumpled hair fell lazily onto his forehead and his hands were buried in the pockets of his trousers.
  • In the third movement, Haitink's lucid communication of the music's textural contrasts made it a joy to listen to, and the violins’ cheeky acciaccaturas tinkled wholeheartedly from their instruments; the finale was brisk, with almost maniacal handfuls of semiquavers, and the trumpets were on top form.
  • It's as if she can't make up her mind whether she wants to be a siren, a vamp or a frump.
  • I was the first to send this picture in, and I am kind of grumped to see the author ignore my factual information that "Formoza" translates to "Levitation" in this advert. Formoza: We Are Competent Formoza The Time
  • It looks all crumply and weird. she should have posed next to it so I can see. Here comes the bri...AAAAUUGGHHH!!!
  • There was a benignancy, a sweetness of demeanor, which attracted them to him, and while his name may not be sounded in the trump of fame, yet the subtile power of his gentleness and goodness has permeated many lives, will shape many destinies, and will have a force in the history of the world greater than that which will be exerted by many who will succeed him here. Memorial Addresses on the Life and Character of William H. F. Lee (A Representative from Virginia) Delivered in the House of Representatives and in the Senate, Fifty-Second Congress, First Session
  • The wind rumpled her lovely hair.
  • It reminded my wife of her father, who we dub the grumpiest man alive. Home again…briefly | The Blog of Michael R. Eades, M.D.
  • We take such matters much less lightly today, as Mr. Mullan notes while recalling the rumpus surrounding "Primary Colors," the Clinton-based novel that Joe Klein initially denied writing, much to the subsequent anger of his fellow journalists. In All But Name
  • Nam in hoc quod patres corrupti sunt, generant filios corruptae complexionis, et compositionis, et filii eorum eadem de causa se corrumpunt, et sic derivatur corruptio a patribus ad filios. Anatomy of Melancholy
  • I was grading for a real curmudgeon, the grump who wound up being my thesis advisor.
  • Still singing, I took the crumpets out of the toaster and put them on a plate, spreading a generous amount of butter over them.
  • I used to play the trumpet and totally fluffed the first line. Times, Sunday Times
  • Bradford has trumped Los Angeles in the race to mount a major photographic exhibition.
  • The ladies rode on palfreys or were drawn on litters, escorted by gentlemen, squires and pages, with trumpeters, drummers and minstrels.
  • Take Alizée Jacotey for instance, I utterly refuse to believe that a gorgeous little crumpet like that could squeeze a 14 inch stonker out her delicate ricker. Army Rumour Service
  • A topographical map of Michigan makes the state look as if someone steamrolled it with heavy equipment, then rumpled the northwest corner.
  • The Government trumpets that it has just been voted the world's best healthcare system. The Sun
  • China's Trump Card Once mocked as over-designed and under-occupied, Shanghai's Pudong district is now a bright spot. Shanghai's Pudong, Once Soulless, Rises Up
  • He harrumphs loudly at the very idea. Times, Sunday Times
  • It looks more adventurous, too, what with its curvy rump, flowing lines and funky lights fore and aft.
  • I heard a slight “harumph” sound at the end of the line. Art Van Stiffel, Deciduous Tree Lawyer
  • Her body crumpled under the support of his arm. Times, Sunday Times
  • You will be astonished to learn that this made him a bit grumpy. Times, Sunday Times
  • He crumpled to the floor, still conscious. Times, Sunday Times
  • Then Joyful trumped the king of spades with the seven of diamonds and said quietly, “I declare a double bezique.” City of Glory
  • The trumpets blew
  • She is fire in his blood, and a thunder of trumpets; her voice is beyond all music in his ears; and she can shake his soul that else stands steadfast in the draughty presence of the Titans of the Light and of the Dark. Chapter 21
  • trumped-up charges
  • Soon afterwards, he joined the local brass band, learning first the trombone, then the trumpet and cornet.
  • When the dealer has a choice of declarations, a sound heart make is to be preferred to a doubtful no-trump. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria"
  • And they came to Jerusalem with psalteries and harps and trumpets unto the house of the LORD. Probably Just One Of Those Funny Coincidences
  • The young man took from his waistcoat a crumpled envelope, and turning to the table he shook out upon it five little dried orange pips. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
  • The peace-loving citizens of Stodge City need a hero to save them from vicious gunfighter The Rumpo Kid.

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