Until love comes he is a lumpish mass of so much flesh without even a spark of the divine.
I passed a couple of timber and plaster churches, which looked very old, black, and crooked, and had lumpishwooden porches and galleries encircling the base.
How plain is this direction, and how does it commend itself to our common-sense; lumpish shoes, and pockets filled with stones, how absurd for a man who is running a race!
It may be they will be as good as a pair of spurs to prick on thy lumpish heart in this rich voyage.
It may be they will be as good as a pair of spurs, to prick on thy lumpish heart in this rich voyage.
Would you not say that such a man would be in danger of losing, though he run, if he fill his pockets with stones, hang heavy garments on his shoulders, and great lumpish shoes on his feet?
I knocked, and the door was opened by the same heavy, overgrown housemaid whose lumpish insensibility had tried my patience so severely on the day when I found the wounded dog.
We cleared the house of all the servants but one, who was kept for domestic purposes, and whose lumpish stupidity we could trust to make no embarrassing discoveries.
Lady Glyde was confined to her room by nervous illness, and the lumpish housemaid (I forget her name) was shut up there at night in attendance on her mistress.
In the morning Will Challice partly solved the question, because he called and showed clearly that he was an insensible log and a lumpish log.
Was he a lumpish log, or was he a man all nerves and electricity?
The punch goes round, and they are dull And lumpish still as ever; Like barrels with their bellies full, They only weigh the heavier.
On the other hand, the way of life, after the Spirit, is an ascent upward, and it is very difficult to our earthly and lumpish flesh.
It has the usual musty chill in the air, the usual grass-grown forecourt, in which a few lumpish Roman fragments are disposed, the usual red tiles on the floor and the usual specimens of the more livid schools on the walls.
I passed a couple of timber and plaster churches, which looked very old, black and crooked, and had lumpish wooden porches and galleries encircling the base.
There was a roar of delight from the circle of lumpish figures about the still which told the boy that he had hit very near to the mark.
It may be they will be as good as a pair of spurs to prick on thy lumpish heart in this rich journey.
He had been lumpish for two or three Days, but was so far connived at, in hopes of Recovery, that we dispatched one of the briskest Fellows among the Brotherhood into the Infirmary, for having told him at Table he was not merry.
Press the spikes into the lumpish and uncouth monster of thy flesh.
Done in brute silence, with a lumpish look and a clumsy gait, the work was perfectly well done nevertheless.
In another minute the face was as vacant and as lumpish as before; the hands did their work again with the lifeless dexterity which had so painfully impressed me when she first took up the brush.
So forth he went, With heauie looke and lumpish pace, that plaine 8 In him bewraid great grudge and maltalent: His steed eke seem'd t'apply his steps to his intent.
The Sprite then gan more boldly him to wake, 2 And threatned vnto him the dreaded name Of Hecate: whereat he gan to quake, 4 And lifting vp his lumpish head, with blame Halfe angry asked him, for what he came.
Queen Elizabeth would have found nothing lumpish about the language: her only impatience might have been with Spenser's weakness for archaisms.
