Sir George Etherege records in verse when the monarch was "dumpish" Nell would "chuck the royal chin;" and it is stated that, mindful of her former conquests over ❋ Unknown (1883)
But though we are natural conservers and causationists, and reject a sour, dumpish unbelief, the skeptical class, which ❋ Unknown (2006)
The horse appears dumpish, refuses to eat, mouth hot, in six or twelve hours the appetite diminishes, legs and eyelids swell. ❋ Daniel Young (N/A)
Because the object was not simple addition, whereby another Adam would merely have meant two Adams, both mopish, dumpish, unconscionably lazy; the object was multiplication by stimulation, whereby, by combining Eve with Adam, Adam, as all subsequent history shows, was raised to the nth power. ❋ Unknown (1918)
He was so well off in Eden, and consequently so dour and dumpish, that Eve had no choice whatever but to remove him from The Home entirely in order to save his character. ❋ Unknown (1918)
His constitutional cheerfulness had been slipping away from him for some time now, thanks to the ravages of the germ of dissatisfaction; but on this occasion he was absolutely dumpish. ❋ Unknown (1915)
Should she stay where she dwells, and retain this her mind, who could live quietly by her? for she will either be dumpish or unneighborly, or talk of such matters as no wise body can abide; wherefore for my part I shall never be sorry for her departure; let her go, and let better come in her room: twas never a good World since these whimsical Fools dwelt in it. ❋ Unknown (1909)
He is a dumpish sort of person who looks as if he needed exercise, but he has a sharp clear eye. ❋ Fritz August Gottfried Endell (1906)
What stage-crowd of a hundred drilled and dumpish people, as we see it at our big theatres, has ever given us that sense of a real, surging crowd as the dozen or so supers in that last struggle which ends the play? ❋ Arthur Symons (1905)
And you, foster-brother, if my fame is important to you, do you betake yourself to those dumpish oafs around the fires and try, by any means whatever, to remedy their faint-heartedness. ❋ Unknown (1893)
"I'm thinkin 'it looks a bit dumpish midships, Ned," said Battersleigh dubiously. ❋ Emerson Hough (1890)
"Gee! but you look dumpish and dressed up," said Katy. ❋ O. Henry (1886)
And indeed, to jog sleepingly through the world, in a dumpish, melancholy posture, can not properly be said to live. ❋ Elbert Hubbard (1885)
Therefore he chooses to withdraw from the tourney, and begs me to make his apologies to you, for he is too dumpish to wish to see any one. ❋ Paul Leicester Ford (1883)
And, truth to tell, though you will rebuke me all the way home to-night for saying it, my heart sat somewhat nearer to those old people who were perhaps a little too dumpish in their repentance and their faith and their hope that morning, than it did to those who took to the table with a light heart. ❋ Alexander Whyte (1878)
You would have thought you had your man all right as long as you had him alone among these old relics; but, let supper be ready, and the house gathered, and Mr. Fearing was as dumpish as ever. ❋ Alexander Whyte (1878)
Be diligent in reading the word of God, wherein all comfort is contained; say not that thou art dumpish and indisposed to read, but remember how travellers must eat against their stomach; their journey will digest it; and though their palate find no pleasure for the present, their whole body will feel strength for the future. ❋ 1608-1661 (1863)
"It's nothing new, aunt Miriam – only somehow I felt it particularly this morning – I have been kept in the house so long by this snow, I have got dumpish I suppose –" ❋ Unknown (1854)
"I don't know what's the matter, but he's been uncommonly dumpish; we've been as near as possible to quarrelling for half a dozen smiles back." ❋ Unknown (1854)
"It's nothing new, aunt Miriam, -- only somehow I felt it particularly this morning, -- I have been kept in the house so long by this snow I have got dumpish I suppose. --" ❋ Susan Warner (1852)
