Now when two years had passed away Her lord took very ill, And left her to her widowhood, Of course, more dumpy still.
For John he had a footman's place, To wait on Lady Wye, She was a dumpy woman, tho' Her family was high.
Two long porticoes, with their architraves resting on dumpy pillars, flanked a quadrangular tower, the platform of which was adorned with the crescent of a moon.
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Dumpy figures like mine don’t dress up pretty, you know.
Besides, she had a kindly disposition, and did not turn up a haughty nose at Aunt Crete’s dumpy little figure.
Let us go into the house,” said Harvey, taking each child by the hand and walking toward the dumpy woman who still filled the door of the cabin, staring as if she failed to understand what had taken place.
For the dumpy book was a translation of "The Ingenious Gentleman, Don Quixote de la Mancha"; and those are words that will thrill a lettered man as the opening notes of certain fugues of Bach will thrill a musician.
The ladies talk, and I, seeking quietly for something to entertain me, light in a low bookcase on a fat, dumpy little book.
Humpy-Dumpy fell downstairs, and yet he married the princess!
Humpy-Dumpy fell downstairs, and yet he got a princess!
And the man told about Humpy-Dumpy that tumbled down, who notwithstanding came to the throne, and at last married the princess.
He thought of his friends' homes that were presided over by dumpy women in black silk with greying hair.
The pleasantest meal of the day was taken there, and in a black cupboard lived the golden syrup and the heraldic mugs and the dumpy teapot and the accessories of tea.
The Sister of Mercy and the girl had vanished behind the dumpy earth-bag walls.
It was a stout, dumpy swag, with a red blanket outside, patched with blue, and the edge of a blue blanket showing in the inner rings at the end.
He was scowling malignantly at a stout, dumpy swag which lay in the middle of the track.
I don't believe that they will do much good with dumpy tools like them;" and the boy literally glared at the short carbines the smugglers had slung across their shoulders.
She was stout and dumpy in figure, rather fat; with a little plain cap on her head and a shawl pinned round her shoulders.
But this 'Dumpy Book' is quite perfect from that point of view, for it is no bigger than a prayer-book.
What jolly jest books, and what small "Dear dumpy Twelves" to fill the nooks.
See," and she stuck up her littledumpy foot, about twice as thick as Mary's.
He was a littledumpy soldier with a rifle and a half-empty cartridge-belt over his breast.
Dona Luisa is a small, dumpy American woman more than eighty years of age--a benevolent New-England-grandmother sort of person.
The girls were dumpy and dull, Indian-faced and awkward, bowed at the shoulder from much grinding of corn and washing of clothes.
I have," proclaimed a dumpy Etonian whose down-curving nose hung over a perpetually open mouth.
He never tired of wandering up and down the Vauxhall Bridge Road where the trams came trafficking like strange ships, so unfamiliar did they seem here beside the dumpy horse omnibuses.
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The dumpy female with the broad back was always called Aunt Sally by the young ladies.
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