Rumps is the key to Ras-el-Khyma, and by its strength is defended from a strong banditti infesting the mountains, as also the Bedouin Arabs who are their enemies.
The splendid old-gold spotting of their backs was plain enough; but immature black-bellied plovers are adorned in a similar manner, and it was necessary for us to see the rumps of our birds before we could be sure of their identity.
So, after we had scrutinized them as long as we wished, I asked my companion to put them up while I should keep my glass upon their backs and make certain of the color of their rumps as they opened their wings.
The penguins bowed and scraped and explained, but the bulls, blind to politeness and deaf to argument only presented their heads, then they raised their rumps and made a half charge.
They sat on their rumps outside the circle of Kafirs, as quiet as people in a church, and watched the niggers drumming and capering as though it were a show for their amusement.
Then dip your veal rumps into it, and cover them with grated bread; put them upon a dish, and brown them with a salamander.
Stew six rumps in some good mutton gravy half an hour; then take them up, and let them stand to cool.
Rumps and edgebones of beef are often bruised by the blows which the drovers give the beasts, and the part that has been struck always taints; these joints therefore when bruised should not be purchased.
Rumps and edgebones of beef when bruised, should not be purchased.
When the rumps are ready, the grease must be drained from them before they are put in the dish; the pan being cleared likewise from the fat, warm up the rice in it.
Two or three rumps of beef will make a stronger soup, and of a far more nourishing quality, than a larger quantity of meat without them.
Lay the latter on the dish, place the rumps round upon the rice, the narrow ends towards the middle, and the kidneys between.
While the rumps are stewing, lard the kidneys, and set them to roast in a Dutch oven.
In King-street seven or eight; and all along burning, and roasting, and drinking for Rumps, there being rumps tied upon sticks and carried up and down.
Rump Parliament was so hated and jeered at, that the butchers' boys would say, 'Will you buy any Parliament rumps and kidneys?
There being rumps tied upon sticks and carried up and down.
One of the little Rumps has been left on the other side of the canal!
But, gentlemen, Simon Rump is not the only man, nor is Mrs. Rump the only woman, nor are the innocent little Rumps the only children who will be made to suffer from the outrage of this heathen defendant.
There were two windows in the wall, through which one could see dimly the great brutes' rumps as they swayed at their pickets restlessly.
They were supping tete-a-tete on rumps and kidneys.
Johnson observed, "Sir, these rumps are pretty little things, but they require a good many to satisfy a man.
Then have a minced lemon, and put it into the gravy, dish the minced meat in the midst of the dish, and the thighs, wings, and rumps about it.
Soon after that day, however, the little yellow-rumps must have taken the wing route to a more genial climate, for they were seen no more that winter.
The hardiest of the Mniotiltidae tribe are the myrtle warblers, which dapple the whitened edges of winter, both autumn and spring, with their golden rumps and amber brooches.
This is an accurate description of the mob's burningrumps upon the admission of the secluded Members, on contempt of the Rump- Parliament.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "rumps" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
