Humps

As far as the removal of existing speed humps is concerned, we want to examine the arguments, the costs and so on, to see whether it is an effective way of using resources to improve safety. ❋ Unknown (2005)

Perspective caused the rest of the sheet to slope away in humps and ridges, as the mountain seemed to do under its winter snow when she was a child. ❋ Unknown (1999)

So the flight over the great humps is a very difficult proposition. ❋ Unknown (1944)

So governments should merely subsidize today's projects enough to push the technologies over their short-term humps. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Of these "humps" -- for there were, as their name suggested, but two -- the northern one was much the smaller, embracing perhaps an acre of rough soil, covered with a stunted grass, and dotted here and there with red cedars. ❋ Various (N/A)

Like that you can see better where there are humps, that is, places where there is little water, and where the water is too deep. ❋ Unknown (1977)

But what of those inverted potholes known as humps? ❋ Unknown (2009)

The novelty of having Obama and Palin on the ballot sidetracks some voters†™ attention, she said. “Each time we go over one of these so-called humps, we have trouble concentrating on the issues, †said Reitan. ❋ Unknown (2008)

The fear of rejection, or judgement, or worse ... is what causes these "humps". ❋ Olive + Hope (2009)

Today I am going to embrace the beauty of it all (including the "humps"). ❋ Olive + Hope (2009)

And like the great Tim O'Brien book The Things They Carried, the painfully beautiful introspective look at Viet Nam through the examination and meaning of the things a soldier "humps" on his back -- I began to understand where Van comes by his awareness of his strange and complicated relationship to his successes and to his place in the world. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Although with a face like that, Fergie's "humps" are pretty enticing. ❋ Michelle Collins (2006)

It isolates sectors of the female anatomy that obsessive young men have been inventing language for since their skulls fused, and yet it emerges only with "humps" and "lumps"--at least "Milkshake" sounded delicious. ❋ Dennis_obell (2005)

During the fall and winter months previous to Matt's coming to the farm, owing to the repeated storms, there had been landed on the "humps" immense quantities of seaweed, so highly prized by the farmer as a fertilizer. ❋ Various (N/A)