Set there like a bump on a log, an' wonder what's the matter!
Delacroix had what a great many Frenchmen lack--a keen sense of humour, but it was considerably tempered by what, for the want of a better term, I may call the bump of reverence.
As for Victor Hugo, no man not blessed with an extraordinary bump of veneration would have gone more than once to his soirees.
Thereupon Laurent-Jan, who had no bump of reverence, proposed a poem in so many cantos, to be illustrated by Vernet.
Ministers of state must undoubtedly be chosen according to their bumps, and of course, therefore, no chancellor or any other legal functionary will be selected who has the smallest symptom of the bump of benevolence.
If his bump of direction was not altogether off, this must be either below the Center or very close to it.
A canopy was still over his head, and there came a bump against it as the baffled box thumped.
But San Francisco has had a pretty good bump lately an' wud hardly tur-rn over in its sleep f'r an invasion.
The powerful headlights gleamed out over deep ruts and in places the sandy soil lay in little mounds, causing the car to bump and flounder about from one side of the road to the other.
They seemed to bumpin and out of the ruts faster than ever.
On June 15, St. John's bumped University, the others above them retaining their places and rowing to the end, as the bump was astern of them.
On June 10 the races were renewed, but no bump was effected by any boat.
Balliol remained in statu quo; Christ Church claimed a bump against University which the latter disputed.
On June 11, another race, and no bump by any boat.
Before locks were built there was always a sort of race from Rushes to Surly, each boat trying to catch and bump the one before it, and the fun was to try and get the rudders off and have a regular jostle.
Mrs Barclay had hardly seated herself in the dining-room, and taken some rather grubby work from her pocket, when she heard a peculiar noise, and the bump of something being placed heavily upon the floor.
You've been treading on my heels ever since we came in here, and when I stop you bump into me.
We don't want to bump up and down the sandy plain again, so a lively conversation goes on in Dutch about the road between one of my gentlemen and somebody who looks like a "stuck-vat" upon short legs.
We bump over some strange and rough bits of sandy road and climb up and down steep banks in a manner seldom done on wheels.
On reaching an unbroken expanse of level country, after leaving the tops of mountains, I always feel as if my soul had come bump against a solid wall of rock in the dark.
So you’re going to bump into this crooked aviator yourself?
Kit proposed putting out the acetylene lights entirely, but Jimmie insisted that it was so dark they might bump into a mountain without seeing it!
To bump into a wooden Indian was to bump into good luck, a hundred times a week.
I've got to be on deck where they can slip me the 'white ones,' and then there's Skeeny waiting for the word to bump off the Sparrow.
We bump him off, of course," said Danglar callously.
They had to help him up an' then he had to go in the kitchen an' disinfect his bump afore he could take a look at Mrs. Macy.
We should bump our heads dreadfully if we lost them, and never get out, either.
If you press the pony next you to get at the offender, one of them will go head over heels down the slope, and at every bump there will be little puffs, one white, one brown.
He has not the nerve to face the bump and come up smiling.
But when the winter is breaking, the falls of snow cease, and the sleigh leaps with a crash and a bump over great gullies, tossing the traveller from side to side and dashing his head against the dashboard.
Migukù si Tim arun dílì masungkù, Tim bent low so he would not bump his head.
Also my pride had had a bump when I didn't know I had such a thing.
And by makin' a quick maneuver I manages to bump into him as he's leavin' the front door with the little white box in his fist.
I had the great luck to bump into him twice during one winter season, and for some time we thoroughly enjoyed life together.
When we find a contumacious sinner we waste no time in theological controversy or moral suasion, but promptly round him up with a rope and bump his head, and we bump it hard.
Now, during the course of running into the swinging door, did you bump into the back of Mr. Truly?
