Lexicographical Neighbors of Humpiness
Literary usage of Humpiness
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. St. Nicholas by Mary Mapes Dodge (1888)
"It swam with yreat speed, cutting water with what looked like a pair of sub-
fins ; and its back presented the odd look " humpiness," or "a row of lumps" ..."
2. The English Illustrated Magazine (1897)
"Observing a humpiness in his bed, less easily to be accounted for than that which
had him at the moment in its possession, he turned down the clothes, ..."
3. The Andean Land: (South America) by Chase Salmon Osborn (1909)
"We were only two degrees off the equator; the tropical cloudbursts had quit; the
sea had flattened its humpiness and the sun shone fiercely. ..."
4. Fifteen Years' Sport and Life in the Hunting Grounds of Western America and by William Adolph Baillie-Grohman (1900)
"... and the fact that it observes its enemies much as an irate old gentleman would
over his spectacles, no less than its shaggy bison-like " humpiness" ..."
5. The Badminton Magazine of Sports & Pastimes edited by Alfred Edward Thomas Watson (1897)
"This alluded to a slight roundness or humpiness in Timur's figure, which came,
no doubt, from his habit of doubling himself up (when running fast) in such a ..."
6. Yacht Architecture: A Treatise on the Laws which Govern the Resistance of by Dixon Kemp (1897)
"In the extended trials of torpedo boats and torpedo catchers made by the Admiralty,
the " humpiness" of the speed curve is, however, apparent enough. ..."
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