If we hump ourselves we ken cross the divide afore the road is blocked.
I hed to hump myself to keep from bustin' into a yell when yer jist drawed them Webster-unabridged sentences on 'em.
The latter has an enormous head, with a long shaggy mane, and an oblong hump on his back.
Camels also we saw introduced from the not far off coast of Africa, patient as ever, bearing heavy weights balanced on their hump backs.
Between this and the lower lake stands an extraordinary hump of sandstone, on a sloping talus.
This humphas much resemblance to a Noah's Ark stranded on a diminutive Ararat.
It was not this saddle that gratified the eyes of our adventurers, but a bag, tightly strapped to it, and resting behind the hump of the maherry.
No sooner was the proposition made than it was carried into execution; Terence, who had been the one to advance it, being hoisted up to the hump of the camel.
Upon the top of its hump was a small flat pad or saddle--firmly held in its place by a strong leathern band passing under the animal's belly.
We took the hump from both sides of the hump ribs, of all the carcasses.
I stalked boldly along and came to a fallen dead cottonwood, laid the buffalo hump on the small log, and proceeded to build a fire.
You've got to hump yourselves, boys," he admonished.
What you want to do is to hump yourself and make things hum," said Nasmyth's partner, when another couple jostled them.
The horns are short and thick, not sharp in the point; and between the shoulders they have a round humpsome two palms high.
White oxen, with short thick horns and a round hump between the shoulders, are now very rare between Kermán and Bender 'Abbás.
The drivers and owners of the camels look very carefully to the condition of the hump of each animal before starting out on a march across the desert.
The hump of the camel is another wise provision to enable the animal to endure the hardships of its long journeys, often on a very short supply of food.
If, after a long march, this hump becomes wasted, whether because the animal has become exhausted, or because he has had insufficient food, it is often necessary to prescribe complete rest.
From its relative situation then, I should call this high hump the organ of firmness or indomitableness in the Sperm Whale.
He piled upon the whale's white hump the sum of all the general rage and hate felt by his whole race from Adam down; and then, as if his chest had been a mortar, he burst his hot heart's shell upon it.
While I was battering away at the pyramid, a sort of badger-haired old merman, with a hump on his back, takes me by the shoulders, and slews me round.
At any rate, the popular name for him does not sufficiently distinguish him, since the sperm whale also has a hump though a smaller one.
So, though I used to think that luck wuz lucky, I'll allow That luck, for luck, agin a hump aint nowhere in it now!
The larvæ of this species are green with white bands, and have a hump on the fourth or fifth segment.
From this hump the caterpillar, on being irritated, protrudes a singular horn of an orange colour, bifurcate at the extremity, and covered with a pungent mucilaginous secretion.
THE Camel's hump is an ugly lump Which well you may see at the Zoo; But uglier yet is the hump we get From having too little to do.
Illustration: How the Camel Got His Hump] HOW THE CAMEL GOT HIS HUMP NOW this is the next tale, and it tells how the Camel got his big hump.
He stands in front of the wall and does some comical movements with his feet and legs, then he turns in such a way that for the first time the shadow of his hump is thrown into a pitiful distortion on the wall.
Jonathan, left alone, turns so that his hump once more shows in the most distorted shadow.
Hence, whenever Sadek wished to ride comfortably he always requested to change seats with my driver, who occupied the front seat on the hump of my camel.
He seemed to suffer internal agony, and lay on his camel's hump doubled up with pain.
So is the powerful stench of his humpwhen it gets heated by the pads of the never-removed saddle.
One was rather at the mercy of the wind on the hump of the camel.
He has a hump on his shoulders which consists partly of fat and partly of strong muscles, the amount of fat varying according to the season of the year and the condition of the animal.
The choice parts of the buffalo are the hump and the tongue, the latter being the greatest delicacy of the buffalo country.
But my father, he says it's nothing to get the hump about, with a little accommodatin'.
It has a large humpon the shoulder, and its fore-quarters are much larger, in proportion, than the hind-quarters.
A hardwood slab-door weighs a goodish deal, as any one may find out that has to hump it a hundred yards.
But Bill preferred to hump his drum A-paddin' of the hoof.
We get a fair share of exercise without a twenty-mile hump on Sundays.
To hump bluey means to go on the tramp, carrying a swag on the back.
Besides, the sperm whale has a hump on his back, which distinguishes him from others.
This hump is farther forward than the fin on the finback whale.
See where the path takes a short cut over the little humpof ground?
As they reached the final hump and emerged from the thick foliage, the boys stopped in surprise.
They take a broad band of stout leather, so stuffed and padded as to form a cushion, and fit this upon the hump of the ox, as shown in our sketch.
The condition of the hump is a good index of the general well-doing of the animal, as that structure is the first to fail or diminish from want or overwork.
The hump should not be too much to the front; rather to the rear is better, as then the saddle is more easily adjusted.
He had one other treasure--an old flute; and in spite of the cruel hump it was a very happy Tony who went to sleep that night, with one hand stretched out upon the saddle of the beautiful new wheel.
He forgot the hump on his back, and his solitary little house on the outskirts of the village in the joy of his new possession.
It has a largehump on the shoulder, and its fore-quarters are much larger, in proportion, than the hindquarters.
What I do mean is that I thank you awful much for the goose, and helping me out like such a brick of a good fellow, and what I wish is, that I was as old as Laddie, and he'd hump himself if he got to be your beau.
Laddie may have to hump himself to support her, but if he can't get her as fine clothes as she has, her folks can help him.
She'll have to hump herself if she beats that dress of mine; and as for looks, I know lots of people who think gray eyes, pink cheeks, and brown curls far daintier and prettier than red cheeks and black eyes and curls.
In front of us the rolling hills, broken out here and there into rocky knolls, piled up on one another toward the hump of Elgon, on which the blue sky rested.
The porters, being used to the tents and their loads now, got away to a good start, heading straight toward the frowning pile of Elgon that hove its great hump against a blue sky and domineered over the world to the northward.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "hump" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
