Inside the curtain were two lines of hump-shouldered boys and pot-bellied older guys, all rarin' to go to the object of their desires just behind an unpainted plywood wall separating us from the treasures of feminine wile we'd paid 50 cents to see with two big holes cut into it just big enough for a horny fool to stick his noggin' through. ❋ The Daily Growler (2006)
From the plastic a strange, hump-shouldered figure, thick and broad, covered in skin and scales, stared calmly out from beneath a heavily ridged brow. ❋ Shatner, William (1999)
A thin hump-shouldered woman with a sleeping baby across her knees pressed herself into a corner of a small sofa to make room between herself and a teen-age boy in overalls with blood-stained bandages over most of his head and half his face. ❋ Harriette Arnow (1954)
Iva Dean turned away, hump-shouldered, old-faced, and tired; less alive she looked than Old John reading one of the many letters he had stacked under the lamp. ❋ Harriette Arnow (1954)
Decrepit, drawn-faced, hump-shouldered and dried up before their time, the few who reached the age when the law made them their own masters, looked not like men and women who stand on the threshold of life, but rather like over-worked middle-aged beings of another period. ❋ John Trotwood Moore (N/A)
Our driver guided the car warily among the early peasants and the two-wheeled carts, slowly drawn by yoked, hump-shouldered bullocks, inclined to dispute the road with a honking interloper. ❋ Yogananda, Paramhansa, 1893-1952 (1935)
The sun had just dropped below the horizon, when a man in the cowpunchers 'camp discerned a weary horse bearing a hump-shouldered rider disconsolately in the direction of the ford. ❋ Francis William Sullivan (1925)
Then tell her, rejoined he, that I spake again with the black-a-visaged, hump-shouldered old doctor, and he engages to bring his friend, the gentleman she wots of, aboard with him. ❋ Unknown (1917)
Mrs. Arp we ought to be mighty thankful, for there's nary one of the ten that's cross-eyed or knock-need or pigeon-toed or box-ankled or sway-backed or hump-shouldered or lame or blind or idiotic, and the grandchildren are an improvement upon the stock, and I don't believe ❋ Unknown (1903)
Page 119 nose in another, and his eyes are of a different color, and he is hump-shouldered and walks pigeon-toed, but he don't care. ❋ Unknown (1903)
_Dear Pierrepont: _ The cashier has just handed me your expense account for the month, and it fairly makes a fellow hump-shouldered to look it over. ❋ George Horace Lorimer (1902)
These neighbors stood a few moments looking at the mail carrier reflectively while he talked; but fatigue soon began to show itself, and one after another they climbed up and occupied the top rail of the fence, hump-shouldered and grave, ❋ Unknown (1873)
Looked small about the body, thin an 'hump-shouldered. ❋ Eugene Field (1872)
These neighbors stood a few moments looking at the mail carrier reflectively while he talked; but fatigue soon began to show itself, and one after another they climbed up and occupied the top rail of the fence, hump-shouldered and grave, like a company of buzzards assembled for supper and listening for the death-rattle. ❋ Mark Twain (1872)
I am sure that Minnehaha is not to be found among the Cherokees; nor can there be traced the manly form of Hiawatha, unless a hump-shouldered, big-headed, short-necked, and somewhat of a wedge-shaped species of humanity, can call to mind the fair proportions of the warrior lover, whose tender wooing and noble ideal exists only in the imagination of the poet. ❋ Henry E. Colton (1859)
The U.S. Wildlife Service, an Interior Department agency, had asserted that the population of the out-sized, hump-shouldered bears which roam parts of Idaho, Montana and Wyoming had made a healthy comeback during the past three decades. ❋ Unknown (2011)
Hunting and trapping of the outsized, hump-shouldered bears drove them to near extinction before they were added to the threatened and endangered species list in 1975. ❋ Unknown (2011)
