His head was bent down, his bright eyes were fixed upon me, his stumpy hands clenched and held close by his side.
He had long since lost speech and active movement, and the lank hair of the little brute grew thicker every day and his stumpy claws more askew.
We jolt across the bumpy field, strike into the back wood-road, and turn off upon an old stumpy track over which cord wood was carted years ago.
If the house is undisturbed (as when situated out in a stumpy pond) it will stand for years, the rats dwelling in it the year around.
There straight roads meet at right angles, one cornfield is like another, and one stumpypasture differs little from the next.
They left it all suddenly, their native town and the stumpy fields of their farm, the corn lot, the muddy creek, the brick schoolhouse that was so proud of its two stories and three grades of scholars.
He had nothing to say to them, and the knowledge of his inability filled him with an uncomfortable sense of his want of normality, just as did the consciousness of his long arms and stumpy legs.
With the end of a bough, used as a maul, he was driving four stumpy stakes at right angles into the pine-needle strewn floor of the hut.
It has a high, but stumpy spire covered with slates.
It has a stumpy central column, from which spring the ribs of the vault, the capital being ornamented with vine-leaves.
Lord Castlereagh apologized violently with his stumpy tail and seemed quite overwhelmed with regret.
It was all out of proportion to the little team, whose backs were scarcely as high as the waist-bands of stumpy Dan.
Stumpy and heavy-set as were the warriors, they could easily outrun their captives, and rather than permit them to get away, they would doubtless riddle them with bullets.
As the stumpy youths straggled apart, the perspiration on their faces caused them to shine like burnished copper.
His arms with their big, hairy, freckled hands, and his stumpy legs terminating in large flat feet, are awkwardly short and muscular.
Glory be to God, it's bold talk you have for a stumpy runt of a man!
He was not the stumpy type of French peasant, but stood tall and lithe, was rosy-faced, and had bright hair like a Saxon’s.
Dollard let go Jacques’s collar and extended his arms around the stumpy man’s neck.
At one of the central tables a very stumpy little priest sat in complete solitude, and applied himself to a pile of whitebait with the gravest sort of enjoyment.
Before either could make sufficient sense of it even to answer, Father Brown had politely excused himself and gone stumping up the road with his stumpy old umbrella.
He was an old lion with stumpy teeth, but very silent and very cool; he knew of fires before; these were not the first of mankind that had ministered to his old age.
From his shining snout to his stumpy tail he was a lion and a half, the length of two tall men.
Why, only the other day there was Stumpy Hughes, sitting on that very chair you're in now, heard a voice say something in Italian, or French.
Stumpy and the hearing the voice, the day before--didn't you see?
But Barney, in trying to imitate a stumpy man with an umbrella, as the song demanded, tripped and lay where he fell, too fatigued to rise.
Those who had commissions from buyers marked the chosen lots in their catalogue with a stumpy pencil.
They vary much in shape, and also in the depth of their ground-tint; some are regular ovals, others are stumpyat the small end, while now and then very spherical eggs are laid.
Old Matt smiled feebly, and drew forth his old memorandum-book, and slowly opening it, showed the worn stumpypiece of pencil inside.
You may be equal to a forty-mile walk, but I'm not so sure about Challenger, with his stumpy legs, and I am perfectly sure about myself.
If nature has given you a short, heavy body you cannot possibly help having stumpy legs.
To this Stumpyreplied by pulling from his trousers pocket four shining pennies, which he held out with an air of triumph.
Two-storied houses are as scarce as earthquakes are frequent, and the long low lines of buildings are broken only by the stumpy bell-towers and squat cupolas of the churches.
It was evident, then, that he had the fever, and Stumpygroaned in spirit.
Whatever latent prejudice there was in the minds of Stumpy and one or two others who recognized an element of peril in the situation, was of little force against the popular enthusiasm the two strangers evoked by their liberality.
Hopper called for two cards, and, as he did so, Stumpy distinctly saw Carruthers show Hopper his hand as he threw it on the table in the discard.
The two men had sat together on the levee, sociably silent for half an hour, when the spirit moved Stumpy to speech.
It was not opened for two deals, but when the cards came to Long Mike in turn, Stumpy was fairly amazed to find that once more he had three kings.
Long Mike was dealing and it was Hennessy’s age, so Stumpy had first say, he having sat down between Hennessy and McCarthy.
After Krags’s deal Stumpycalled for a new deck of another colour, and when that had been used twice, Long Mike ran over it carefully, and called for still another deck.
Gallagher took one card and Stumpy took two, but they did not move to pick them up, keeping their eyes fixed on Titherton.
On the draw Stumpy stood pat, still without looking at his cards, which lay face down in front of him.
Stumpy was fond of the girls, and some of them liked him,--especially Jennie Smith already mentioned.
The line came up with a suddenness that surprised him, as Fenn let go, and an old rubber boot, that Stumpy had attached, flew over and struck the lazy lad in the face.
It takes Fenn to please the girls," retorted Ned, and he dodged to escape a blow Stumpy aimed at him.
Why Stumpysays John's got to leave the school, but it's the first I heard about it.
On one occasion Bart called on Stumpy to take the pitcher's box, Lem making an excuse that he wanted to rest his arm.
Stumpy wondered at this, as Sandy Merton was the one who usually substituted for Lem.
It was only about ten feet but to Stumpyand his chums it seemed like a thousand.
Well, I wouldn't want to accuse any one unjustly," Stumpy continued.
I'm captain, and you pitch," said Bart decidedly, and much amazed at his selection Stumpy walked into the box.
When Lem came back in the box on one occasion after Stumpy had been filling it, he asked in a low tone of Bart: "Will he do?
Stumpy looked first from one side of the basket and then from the other, at the cords that meant so much to them.
Looks as though he wouldn't trust Stumpy to bring the salt over," commented Bart.
This offer was received with great joy, as an unlooked-for means of paying our debts, and extricating ourselves from present and overwhelming difficulties, and we looked upon the little stumpy man in the light of a benefactor.
Surely the little stumpy man is not returning to his old quarters?
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "stumpy" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
