And this, with fast bowling and the bumpy nature of the pitch, is a very difficult thing to do.
While on the subject of cricket, for some time past we have made experiments of all sorts of cricket grounds, and have come to the conclusion that the following is the best recipe to prepare a pitch on a dry and bumpy ground.
The reason that nine out of ten village grounds are bad and bumpy is that they are not rolled soon enough after rain or after being watered.
Many grounds are somewhat rough and bumpy to field on, beautifully smooth though they look from the pavilion.
The road was very bumpy and it is a far from pleasant or interesting route until the neighborhood of Dunfermline is reached.
The lamps glimmer dimly through the fog as we splash along the bumpy streets to the Station Hotel--and few hostelries were more genuinely welcome during all our long wanderings.
Ger tried a few practice steps, copying the bumpy walk of the Man.
But a Pilot's Shape wasn't constructed for sleeping on damp, bumpy ground.
There is a wonderful view from Bumpy Peak, over the sea, and right away to far-off lands.
There were innumerable bumpy little roads leading off the dirt road toward primitive looking parts of the lower mountains, but I was afraid to follow them.
So they both went slowly down, And walked about the town With a cheerful bumpy sound As they toddled round and round; And everybody cried, As they hastened to their side, "See!
He used to try to chase a fish the way he chased hares in the bumpy field--but there are terrible spurts in a fish.
He learned to jump by chasing hares in a bumpy field.
We left our camp in the evening, travelling the first part of the way in carts, over one of the most bumpy roads ever seen.
We camped by a stream, after a very steep and bumpy descent from a high ridge.
Jest enough so's to make it get workin' by the time we hit the bumpy road--see?
They wait behind some trees down that bumpy road an' when we blow along they give us a coupla hunnerd feet ahead an' follow without no lights.
He let drop that we had arrived that morning in the bus, and she immediately concluded that we were her companions in misery on that wet, bumpy drive.
These increase in size and cause a swelling often of extraordinary dimensions, the surface of which appears hard, irregular, bumpy and in certain parts yielding and elastic.
The surface of the testicle is at first smooth in the case of increased tension, later only does it become irregular, bumpy and of unequal consistency.
The same are then thickened in the septa, are hard and form an irregular, bumpy swelling surrounded by more or less thickened tissue.
Then like the bumpy end of a dream, infinitely alarming, irresistibly awakening, the little launch snubbed its nose into wood in stead of a wave, and the voyage was over!
Not a soul had conceived it likely that Captain Dalton would have risked his fine machine over the bumpy side-tracks that formed short-cuts in various directions, notably one to the ruins which Joyce had often expressed a wish to see.
At first Dalton had thought of leaving the car on the high road and walking the rest of the way, but on second thoughts he decided to risk the tires and springs over the bumpy ground, forcing a passage through the obstacles in the way.
There was bread and butter with bumpy jam on it and bumpy Devonshire cream on the top of the jam, and there was bumpy cake with bumpy cherries in it, and there were bumpy meringues, and there was bumpy honey.
The tables had been cleared now, but Mrs Jugg came toward them with a big box of bumpy chocolates.
We whisked along a road--bumpy withal in parts, and somewhat dusty, but broad.
Some of them looked bumpyand some stringy, but poor Melissa's was a strange dark color and had not risen.
I could pick one out of the hold of an ocean liner in the dark, just by the lumpy, bumpy feel of it.
Bumpy Man, as he stopped stirring and looked at the speaker in surprise.
Illustration] "I think you do," said theBumpy Man.
You will change your mind about that in a little while," declared the Bumpy Man.
The Bumpy Man was now shoveling quite a distance down the mountain-side, while the path behind him rapidly filled up with fresh-fallen popcorn.
Yes," she said, and followed the Bumpy Man out when he opened the door.
The Mo snow was pretty deep where the Bumpy Man was shoveling and from beneath a great bank of it he had uncovered a pair of feet.
I thought that would startle you," remarked the Bumpy Man, well pleased, as he resumed his stirring.
The Bumpy Man watched the old sailor's actions with much curiosity.
The day's adventures had made our wanderers tired, so the Bumpy Man brought them some blankets in which they rolled themselves and then lay down before the fire, which their host kept alive with fuel all through the night.
Well, this is the top of a high mountain," returned the bumpy one, "and for that reason we get our heaviest snowfalls right here.
The visitors seated themselves upon the benches--except the Ork, which squatted by the fireplace--and the Bumpy Man began stirring the kettle briskly.
But the Bumpy Man seemed satisfied that he had explained his position fully and presently he placed four stone plates upon the table and then lifted the kettle from the fire and poured some of its contents on each of the plates.
But the Bumpy Man's eyes were kind and twinkling in expression and as soon as he saw his visitors he bowed low and said in a rather bumpy voice: "Happy day!
While theBumpy Man began shoveling into the corn-bank to find the boy's cap, Trot was laughing joyfully and Cap'n Bill had a broad grin on his face.
Well, then I'm glad I saved his life," said the Bumpy Man.
He had done it, flying through air that was bumpy with antiaircraft bursts, ignoring the darting Zero fighters that stabbed at his ship from above.
If the air isn’t bumpy I might take Rosy down to five hundred feet—when and if you spot a thatch-roofed metropolis.
And I can stand the cold and the bumpy roads and the lonely rides at night.
It was a bumpy cold way to the Morgenroth farm, and she was asleep when they arrived.
Out from Carroll we have rather bumpy roads for some time.
It is a lovely September morning, clear and bright, as we drive north along bumpy roads, through beautiful forests of pine and oak.
We have a bumpyroad in leaving the city, followed by a fine stretch of smooth, beautiful cement highway.
It is uneven, and is rendered bumpy by the constant road bars.
We find the road bumpy and dusty, but not at all impracticable.
From Folsom to the busy little town of Placerville we had more broken country and a decidedlybumpy road.
I was interrupted there, and I seem to have done nothing else but be interrupted ever since, either by big bumpy Mrs. Shuster, or some one, or else by big bumpy waves which make me want not to write letters.
As the sun rose, however, the air became more and more bumpy and the banks of clouds lying over the distant Crystal Mountains began to break and scatter.
We had had a sufficiency of the bumpy-bumpy motion of the Finnish post-cart to prefer other means of transport if it was available, and so we asked with interest about the river route.
The monster fireplace retreats bashfully before it into the opposite wall, and a grimy cracked ceiling looks on a bumpy stone floor, from which a cleanly man could eat his porridge.
The one bumpy street of Springfield, despite its sparse crop of grass, presents to this day a depressed appearance, a relic of the time when it doubled up under a weight of thundering chariots.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "bumpy" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
