Two little brown creatures, humpedon the edge of a plank, washing calamus in moonlit water!
He stamped with both fore feet, showed his teeth, humped his back, and turned both ends of his tiny body, like a pinched wasp, toward every one that came near him.
Besides the deer, and some varieties of the humped ox, that have been introduced from the opposite continent of India, Ceylon has probably but one other indigenous bovine ruminant, the buffalo.
We crouched, all humped up, in the lew of a drifter's bows, whilst the rain water washed around our boots and coat-tails.
We cannot avoid this conclusion when we reflect on the parentage and present fertility of the several breeds of the dog, of the Indian orhumped and European cattle, and of the two chief kinds of pigs.
VASEY, Mr., on the number of sacral vertebrae in ordinary and humped cattle.
There can be no doubt that the Zebu or humped Indian ox belongs to a distinct species from European cattle: the latter, moreover, are descended from two forms, which may be called either species or races.
One by one, in single file like a line of enormous marching insects, they crawled down the wall and humped along on their tentacles--around the ditch and toward us!
The Quabos' front line humped grimly toward us, unblinking eyes glaring, tentacles writhing warily, little spurts of used water trickling from their helmets.
Men led elephants away; others came with the two-humped dromedaries, and after them the striped zebra trotted, showing something like temper because his spell of liberty had been so short.
He went up to Mahomet, the double-humped leader of the herd, who was the leader of the sneezers, and kicked him in the slats and told him to hush up his noise.
If not, you put your pride in your pocket and take your meals at the kitchen table, at such hours as the family are not sitting humped round the same with their hats on, partaking of soup or coffee.
In the little black office of The Die, Peter sathumped up, like a drooling ape, scanning the interior of his junk shop through his peephole.
It will be noticed that the animal forms--the Bactrian camel and the humped ox--are superior to the human, and have considerable positive merit as works of art.
The two-humped camel belonged to Bactria, where he was probably indigenous, but was widely spread over the Empire, on account of his great strength and powers of endurance.
He walked a little pigeon-toed, humped over, with his hands in his trousers pockets.
She wore a voluminous shawl, which was humped up in front as if she were carrying something in it.
So, when I seen smoke comin' from the camphouse at Mud Springs, you kin bet I humped along pretty lively.
He humped back to the claim, and when he got thar he said he seen a white horse standin' with his head hangin' down like he was asleep; but never a sign of Black Devil nowhar.
Behind the depot, the prairie humped a huge, broad shoulder of bluff wrinkled along the forward slope of it like the folds of a full fashioned skirt.
He saw the cattle humped and drifting before the wind in the first blizzards of winter, while gray wolves slunk watchfully here and there, their shaggy coats ruffled by the biting wind.
Visioned the cattle humped in the snow, tails to the biting wind, and the riders plodding with muffled heads bent to the drive of the blizzard, the fine snow packing full the wrinkles in their sourdough coats.
Humped and shivering, I was almost at the traveler's elbow when he turned and felt in his pockets for the money to pay the cab driver.
Then, with a cold sweat starting from every pore, I saw the humped figure of a man beside the safe.
In the shadow of one of the dilapidated hovels, four humped oxen stood, their heavy harness still hanging upon them, though the sledges they drew, covered with stone dust and broken pieces, were some distance away from them.
He was astonished to see at the ledge, just below, a great water-cart with three humped oxen attached.
Charming Billy rode humped over the saddle-horn, as rides one whose mind feels the weight of unpleasant thoughts.
Again and again he flung his head down, humped his back, and sprang into the air grunting and squealing with rage and fear.
As the cold intensified, the crickets ceased to cry, and the pony, having filled his stomach, turned tail to the wind and humped his back in drowse.
Mrs. Pratt was a wizened little woman, so humped by labor and chills and fever that she seemed deformed.
Harold was a boy, the hostler had insulted him, had indeed struck him with a whip.
Does being 'under indictment' mean that you are in danger of arrest?
Harold felt the justice of his father's plea and his heart swelled with emotion, but something arose up between his heart and his lips and he remained silent.
Juliet moved impulsively and laid her hand upon his humped shoulder.
He stood humped and quivering, expectant of rebuke.
He put his arm round the humped shoulders with the words.
Our horses stoodhumped up and miserable, the sweat freezing on their hair.
We soon saw them standing in a thick patch of willows, heads down, and bodies all humped up with the cold.
Ahead of us lay three dead buffaloes, and quite near one was standing humped up, head down, badly wounded.
And, alway the noise did come the more anigh, and I saw that a Humped Man did come running from among the trees, and did run beneath that place where the seven Humped Men did be on the branches.
And sudden, when it was gone a distance off, it did roll very swift over upon the back, first to the right, as that it would go that way; so that the Humped Men did leap off upon the other side.
And you shall picture that, all the time as I did go about this business, I was very heedful lest the Humped Men should come upon me, ere that I was gone free upon the water.
I did see that there came up the rock two Humped Men; and they did climb very swift and silent; and I perceived that they smelled me, and came to destroy me.
And immediately the creature rolled to that side; and there ran clear of the brute only four of the Humped Men; so that I knew that three were slain.
And the great humped back and vast shoulders of the Watching-Thing rose up into the night, black and cumbrous against the red shine of the Pit.
And immediately I saw how this thing was; for the Humped Man upon the ground, did not run so fast as might be; and I conceived that he did act to make some creature to come after him, to pass under the men within the tree.
I could not see the Humped Men, for they were gone from that place; yet never did I see them go, though I had kept my gaze very steadfast upon that part where they did hide.
And how many of theHumped Men there were to the beginning of that strange hunting, I know not; but surely there were few that lived to the end.
And surely, the noise did seem to come from that part, and did grow loud and mighty, and the Humped Men did all crouch very silent, and did make no noise or motion one to the other; but were quiet upon the lower branches.
There before her, humped over in his chair, sat Isaac Crittenden, and his one eye covered her like the evil glare of a rattlesnake.
He sat humped together looking at the floor, his powerful, gnarled hands gripping at the chair arms.
With back humped high at every pattering plunge of its short legs, the weasel looked like a great inch-worm measuring its way toward its prey.
Before long, the squatting hare saw a black form on the other side of the circle, with humpedback looping its way along.
Every ounce of strength in the ridged forepaw, every atom of force and spring from the coiled masses of humped muscles of the enormous hind quarters, went into that mighty blow.
This color, the humpedhind quarters, and the head swinging low on a long neck could belong to none other than the blackbear, the last survivor of the three great carnivora of our Eastern forests.
They stood braced on these, their receding heads drawn back, their shoulders thrust forward, their bodieshumped between the featherless wings like challenging tomcats.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "humped" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: arched; bandy; concave; convex; gibbous; humpbacked; humped; hunched; rotund; vaulted
