"Hump" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... the melancholy games of last night, Deakin, which no one deplores so much as George Smith, we thought we'd trot round - didn't us, Hump? and see how you and ...
— The Plays of W. E. Henley and R. L. Stevenson
... in the same attitude, and seeing and hearing nothing to give it life and spirit. It requires nothing but a dull creature like this, and the washing and dressing left to her, to give a child the rickets, and make it, instead of being a strong straight person, tup-shinned, bow-kneed, or hump-backed; besides other ailments not visible to the eye. By-and-by, when the deformity begins to appear, the doctor is called in, but it is too late: the mischief is done; and a few months of neglect are punished by a life of mortification and sorrow, not wholly ...
— Advice to Young Men • William Cobbett
... swords which had been adorned with the choicest smith-craft, besides the royal household gear; so that he might not leave the enemy to capture and use the sword, which he saw that he could not wield himself. And, to prevent the cave being noticed by its height, he levelled the hump down to the firmer ground. Then he set out to war; but being unable with his aged limbs to go down into battle, he leaned on the shoulders of his escort and walked forth propped by the steps of others. So he perished in the ...
— The Danish History, Books I-IX • Saxo Grammaticus ("Saxo the Learned")
... your cayuses and hit for home," Tom interrupted them. "There ain't going to be any more school to-day. Them your horses in the shed? Well, you hump along and saddle ...
— Rim o' the World • B. M. Bower
... "hump-back" is a deformity in nature, so Bunyan uses the word "hump" as a deformity ...
— The Works of John Bunyan • John Bunyan
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