His little lodge, cut in the rock, remained silent; I thought the little humpbackedwretch would never have done dressing; for of course I supposed he would be in bed and asleep.
I didn't figger nobody seen me do it, but I reckon that humpbacked little darkie seen me, all right.
Thus, the sperm whale and the humpbacked whale, each has a hump; but there the similitude ceases.
Then this same humpbacked whale and the Greenland whale, each of these has baleen; but there again the similitude ceases.
The flesh of the humpbacked whale is not at all bad, being but little inferior to that of the porpoise; so that, as these people do not despise even the coarse rank flesh of the cachalot, their enthusiasm was natural.
It was not easy to understand why, because these islands were noted as a breeding-place for the humpbacked whale.
What is called fame is as scrawny and humpbacked and crooked-faced as my body--but what matters that?
Presently we hear the humpbacked steward's footsteps on the deck above our heads, and, with a quick succession of little bumps, half a dozen boiled potatoes come rolling down the stairs of the companionway into the cabin.
One day during the Christmas festival, while standing sentinel at his gate, he was accosted by three humpbacked minstrels.
Saying this, she showed him the other coffer in which the second humpbacked minstrel had expired.
Rufus, without suspicion, followed hishumpbacked guide up the narrow staircase.
Twice more he struck the humpbacked boy with the whip, and then threw him on the floor.
I’ll stick around and make sure this humpbacked spook doesn’t carry off the flivver,” he added with a grin, as he lolled back comfortably and allowed his long legs to dangle over the side of the car.
A black, humpbackedthing half-way between the house and the woods.
But on went the more giddy of the mob, rather in sport than in cruelty, with a chorus of drunken apprentices and riotous boys, to the spot where the humpbacked tinker had dragged his passive burden.
But that was the only way to try it," said the humpbacked tinker; "and if she was not a witch, why did she look like one?
Here she builds a house for her "grandchild" thatched with the feathers of the oo bird, and appoints birds to serve her, a humpbacked attendant to wait upon her, and mists to conceal her when she goes abroad.
Without me to help him, the wretch taps one of the twenty bottles of Johannisberger with which a Chicago pork packer presented him when he made a portrait of his humpbacked daughter.
Illustration] THE FALL OF MUN Old Joe left his daytime den, a burrow beneath a humpbacked boulder, half an hour after nightfall.
But just as he made ready to strike a humpbacked boulder with the sole of his left foot, he miscalculated and struck with the heel.
Their home was small and cosy--very different from the rat-haunted house of his lame mother and humpbacked father.
It was very different from the doggerel in which he had taken part with his humpbacked father so long ago.
There were three humpbackedbrothers who looked very much alike.
After the man had removed the second corpse, he met the humpbacked husband, whom he now likewise cast into the river.
A crowd ofhumpbacked pilgrims, following one another in single file, passed between the wall and the slab of the tomb, on which they rubbed their humps in silence.
See him now, humpbacked and bowed under the stroke of the celestial curse.
That humpbacked old Fagon, her favourite, used to say that he disliked Christianity because it would not allow him to build a temple to Maintenon and an altar to worship her.
Like almost all humpbacked men, he had a great passion for women; but at the same time was so pious that he feared he committed a grievous sin in looking at any other than his own wife; and he was truly in love with her.
There was the gray dog naked in the moonlight, heedless still of any witnesses; there the murdered sheep, lying within and without that distorted shade; and there the humpbacked boulder.
Beyond them, not fifty yards away, crouched a humpbacked boulder, casting a long, misshapen shadow in the moonlight.
Shakespeare's Richard was wholly the humpbacked villain to him, and when he met his fate on Bosworth Field he rejoiced greatly.
He had seen in some chief a soul much like that of humpbacked Richard, but, as he looked and listened, he also had a certain feeling of superiority.
By Allah, this was not a dream: and where is the humpbacked groom who was sitting with us, and the purse of gold that I had?
Then they imprecated evil upon the humpbacked groom and him who was the cause of his marriage to that lovely maiden; and every time that they prayed for blessings upon [H.
Then did thehumpbacked groom address the Wezeer, the father of the bride, again, saying, Allah confound him who was the cause of this!
I had said within myself, perhaps thou and the humpbacked groom are to share me between you.
But as to the bride, she raised her hands towards heaven, and said, O Allah, make this to be my husband, and relieve me from this humpbacked groom!
Verily thehumpbacked groom hath passed the night with thee!
O humpbacked favourite of Pele the long-haired, the bride will go into the bridegroom's chamber.
When Maloka thehumpbacked puts out the moon, then leap, Kea, into the arms of your husband.
We'll weed out the runty humpbacked critters and all off-color she-stuff; keep only straight red cows.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "humpbacked" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
