After graduation I spent one more summer knee-deep in humpies and blew everything I earned on a four-month backpacking trip to Europe with Rhonda ❋ Unknown (2007)
Most of the coho are 3 to 5 pounds, and the humpies are a little bigger. ❋ Unknown (2011)
Eustace pulled up short in breathless dismay, for a few paces away there arose from among these untidy "humpies" some twenty natives -- erect, alert, all with poised boomerangs or spears ready to fling. ❋ Eleanor Luisa Haverfield (N/A)
There was no concrete in any part of the line, very few iron girders and not many iron "humpies" or "elephant backs" to make the roofs of dugouts. ❋ John Masefield (1922)
The "humpies" were so plentiful here, however, that they were tossed out on the bank, but not eaten, the bear preferring to capture one while in the water then wade about on his hind legs while he held the fish in his arms and devoured it. ❋ Saxton Pope (1900)
As he walked his horse down into the camp, the diggers had just ceased work for the day, and with clay-stained and soddened garments were returning to their various tents or "humpies" of bark, all of them contentedly smoking, and ready for their usual supper of salt beef, damper, and tea. ❋ Louis Becke (1884)
It's a win-win situation for all involved, except those spawning "humpies" that are sacrificed for the greater good.
My 3 yr old lab Glock and I just got back from our third trip to Ak. We leave the first week of Aug and come back to upstate NY in time for duck season in mid Oct. Two plus months of living together in the pick-up camper and catching silvers on the flyrod, me, catching humpies and chasing around, Glock. ❋ Unknown (2009)
If you're snagging humpies while trying to catch silvers you need a strong line to horse the humpies with and yet a thin line to not inhibit lure action. ❋ Unknown (2009)
While fishing for sockeye and humpies in Alaska a sow brown bear came in and did some fishing of her own, catching 3 salmon for herself and her 2 cubs. ❋ Unknown (2009)
There will be silvers, chums, sockeyes, humpies, a late king or two, and the errant rainbow. ❋ Unknown (2007)
During inclement weather they squatted in their humpies, or braved the elements “with honour clad.” ❋ Unknown (2003)
Lonely men in their tents and three or four mothers of families in their slab humpies looked out vainly for him for three days, anticipating necessary vegetables, and, being disappointed, slandered him courageously, while they found consolation in the reflection that if he ever came his round again they would distress and vex him by withholding payments for the vegetables of the past. ❋ Unknown (2003)
The ones Lizzie was interested in were the ones the natives used to make their humpies; they yielded sheets of leathery, rust-colored bark. ❋ Colleen McCullough (2000)
Eve murmured, "Hope ... no humpies join the party before that." ❋ May, Julian, 1931- (1998)
