At one such station three camels are harnessed to the tarantass, and the clumsy animals waddle along so that their humps bob and roll on their backs.
They look well-fed, and the two humps are firm and full of fat.
The camels are all laden; thick rugs cover their backs to prevent them being rubbed sore by the loads, and the humps stick up through two round holes in the cloths in order that they may not be crushed and injured.
His loads form a small platform between the humps and along his flanks, with a hollow in the middle, where I sit as in an armchair, with a leg on each side of the front hump.
How she adored him, in spite of his great humpsand his now hobbling legs!
Orn Skinner, his head sunken between the two humpson his shoulders, was lazily whittling a stick when the sound of a horse's hoofs in the lane near Young's barn arrested his attention.
Two great humps on his shoulders accentuated the breadth and thickness of his chest while they tended to conceal the length of his arms.
In the autumn, the camels are fat, and their humps appear round and hard.
As the camel grows thin, his humps fall to one side, and the animal assumes a woe-begone appearance.
But, instead of splendid beasts with upstanding humps and full neck beards, the camels now were pathetic mountains of almost naked skin on which the winter hair hung in ragged patches.
The humps were loose and flat and flapped disconsolately as the great bodies lurched along the trail.
Beef and venison, humps and haunches, buffalo tongues and marrow-bones, were constantly cooking at every fire; and the whole atmosphere was redolent with the savory fumes of roast meat.
Moreover, they scarcely looked like camels, for their nice, plump humps had almost entirely disappeared, and this was something that the Arabs noted with anxiety.
In the first place, their masters fed them until the humps on the camels' backs grew large, plump and fat.
Hampton Roads the Virginia had barely coped with one of those horrors, of one hump, two guns; while here came four, whose humps were six and their giant rifles twelve.
In the morning we all found that we had been dreaming of buffalo humps and deers' tongues, and only wished that we had the reality before us.
And he is perhaps the only animal that will drink salt water; for the country in which the Two-Humps camel lives has several lakes, the water of which is bitter and salty.
The Two-Humps camel has in winter a coat of long, shaggy hair on his back to guard him from the cold; and in summer the shaggy hair comes off his back, just as if he were to cast off his thick coat.
So the Two-Humps camel has to guard himself from the hot burning sand in the summer, and from the cold and snow in the winter.
That is why people like the Two-Humps camel better for carrying goods, and like the One-Hump camel better for riding.
The Two-Humps camel lives in a country where there are also many miles of desert, but where it is very hot in the summer and very cold in the winter.
When a Two-Humps camel is used, the band of course rests in the gap between the two humps, so that it cannot slip at all; and then the two packages can be made very big.
The Two-Humps camel is called a Bactrian camel, as he lives in a country which was once called Bactria.
The camel with two humps will gladly eat many more things than the camel with one hump.
That reminds me, have we something to stuff thehumps with?
Sometimes the humps and the middle of the back are marked with rose-pink.
In a good light it should be perfectly easy to count the humps or hump.
As long as I can remember I have lived in a state of uncertainty as to whether a dromedary has twohumps and a camel one, or a camel two humps and a dromedary one.
If it turns out that the type possesses two humps it will be able to convey Edgar and Marigold at one and the same time, thus saving delay and inconvenience.
The horned cattle are rather small, with humps between the shoulder-blades; these humps consist of flesh and are considered a great dainty.
Their owners are always very careful to see that their humps are in good condition before they set off on a journey, and some varieties are preferred to others on account of their being able to bear a longer period of drought.
As the courier of the desert humps through the lane made open for him, his rider is seen smiling and happy.
It humpsin front, jumps behind, and paces in the middle.
Because I know the kind of stuff you pilots are--and those humps are altogether too big to be accounted for by anything I know about you.
Of course, all the pilots can't be as good as Breckenridge, but give them good computation and good check points and you shouldn't get any humps higher than about half a centimeter.
The axial rotation tends to carry the humps with it, but the pull of the other body keeps them from moving much.
Of course the fluid ocean takes this shape more easily and more completely than the solid earth can, and so here are the very oceanic humps we have been talking about, and about three feet high (Fig.
The humps as so far treated are always protruding in the earth-moon line, and are stationary.
These humps are pulled at by the moon, and the earth rotates on its axis against this pull.
Remember that the tidal humps were produced as the prolateness of a sphere whirled round and round a fixed centre, like a football whirled by a string.
We see, then, that as a result of all this we get a pair of humps travelling all over the surface of the earth, about once a day.
A hill humps unexpectedly to hide the tower erect like a pistil in the depths of the tremendous flaming flower of the west.
For uncountable days' journeys jouncing on the humps of camels iron horizons have swayed like the rail of a ship at sea mountains have tossed like wine shaken hard in a wine cup.
You would take a good look at that yard, with its roundhouses and its shops, its gravity-humps and its classification sections, and you would think it big enough to handle every freight car that goes between here and Chicago.
Fenn, it is {272} sometimes greenish, withouthumps or projections.
In colour it is reddish brown, inclining to ochreous brown; brownish grey on the humps on rings 5 and 11, and on the skin folds.
Those two humps behind the big one are the backs of men.
I could see it all quite clearly now, and occasionally one of the humps lift a head cautiously above the rock.
Springing on his wheel he coasted down the humps and into the darkness again.
Some of the evidence did not reach their ears for they were thinking of other things--the man of two humps was as far away from their homes or their hopes, as the rope that would end him.
Air the loop around a neck, and air therehumps under the head what's a hangin'?
Two enormoushumps stood side by side on his shoulders, and a grizzled head lifted and sank with each sweep of the oars.
Be there humps," persisted Tess, "big round humps standin' out as how the hills stand by the lake?
Tess saw the pictured humps pause, and as she whispered the name again, Daddy Skinner came to the iron lattice.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "humps" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
