They charged blindly ahead whichever way they happened to be lying, humping up their backs as they drew their hind flippers under them and stretching out again, just like the "woolly bear" caterpillars I used to tease when a boy.
Found the marks of the old compound fracture still humping up on the clavicle--the left one.
Perhaps never, I think, And it’s likely enough your old mate Will be humping his drum on the Hughenden-road To the end of the chapter of fate.
For twelve long months I had to pace, Humping my swag with a cadging face, Sleeping in the bush, like the sable race, As in my song you’ll understand.
The vegetation had mainly flattened, was drying up, and he could see everywhere the little ball-segmented insects humping and squirming about.
Old Colonial gave way, for he perceived that, as our acknowledged boss, he would have but little of the humping to do himself.
But humping was then a novelty, and we regarded it as a labour of love.
This is a bit of pleasantry that only those who have tried it can understand, for humping timber is one of the most undesirable occupations possible; as many a galled shoulder and aching back could testify.
The fact was that he never had learned to purr, nor had any reason, so far as he knew, for humping up his back.
Small bodies, not swift, leaping or humping along like furry worms, sniffing, squeaking, their stabbing teeth dark with the blood of any flesh that moved.
Paul saw Amisura weeping, humping pitiably back to his litter on all fours, and heard Pakriaa laugh.
For the chances will be that Sam Holt's old mate Will be humping his drum on the Hughenden Road To the end of the chapter of fate.
A Vision of Sandy Blight I'd been humping my back, and crouching and groaning for an hour or so in the darkest corner of the travellers' hut, tortured by the demon of sandy blight.
At this distance he was no longer formidable, but a comic, jerking, rabbity figure, humping himself over the back track.
And there were tramps 'humping bluey' on the track likewise, and diggers carrying their picks.
It's just one darned round of grease paint, and sky blue tights, and new boarding houses and humping over to the theater every night, going on, and humping back to the room again.
She walked with that humping hip movement which city women acquire.
He began to fear that she would Weaken, so he told her that while he was slaving and humping in the City, it would give him sufficient Joy to know that Darling was out in the Woods, listening to the Birds.
After humpingit for 4 years he passed his final Exam and the Faculty decided that he was a Bachelor of Arts.
Only one too-plump caterpillar camehumping slowly back to the playground, making great lamentation.
South African timber is notoriously close-grained and heavy; consequently the humping of those green balks through the valley and over the saddle to the tunnel was almost the heaviest and most painful work I have ever perspired under.
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