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Sentences ending with stump

He thought it was summer, and he was playing, all alone, in the fair meadow called Goodman's Fields, when a dwarf only a foot high, with long red whiskers and a humped back, appeared to him suddenly and said, "Dig by that stump. [5]
Jonathan Parks and Timothy MacGuire--Republican and Democratic candidates for Mayor--thought of going on the stump. [9]
It seemed to me that if Captain Cook needed a monument, here was one ready made--therefore, why not put up his sign here, and sell out the venerable cocoanut stump? [5]
He looked at me as I sat with my feet crossed on the stump. [9]

Short sentences using stump

Up a stump, that's where. [5]

More example sentences with the word stump in them

Near the shore we found "Cook's Monument"--only a cocoanut stump, four feet high and about a foot in diameter at the butt. [5]
I see I was up a stump again, so I played another chicken bone and got another think. [5]
Fresh green life was springing from the stump of every dead tree; even the rocks afforded sustenance to a hundred roots, a mossy covering and network of thorny tendrils clung closely to them. [10]
The gas log was almost hidden by dried palm leaves, a cigarette stump lay on the fender; on the mantel above were several photographs of men and at the other side an open door revealed a bedroom. [9]
And you've got to have good fair marks from one end of the river to the other, that will help the bank tell you when there is water enough in each of these countless places--like that stump, you know. [5]
There were now three bullets in that one hole--three bullets embedded processionally in the body of the stump back of the target. [5]
Just before starting, the driver picked up, in the street, a stump of a cigar an inch long, and put it in his mouth. [5]
Besides Philip hated the copying of pleadings, and he was certain that a life of "whereases" and "aforesaids" and whipping the devil round the stump, would be intolerable. [5]
Do you see that stump on the false point? [5]
Think of the stump speaker who shouts before a hundred audiences during the same political campaign, always using the same arguments, illustrations, and catchwords! [6]
I imagined him standing thus, the stump of his cigar tightly clutched between his teeth, following the fortunes of some favorite on the far side of the Belmont track. [9]
The dumb wife sat on the stump, with her dying husband resting on her lap. [10]
Take a turn round that stump with the bight of it! [5]
He laid his rifle against a stump at the edge of the corn-field, but she bounded clear of him. [9]
Here we were, Red Ravine left, stump fences and waving fields of grain right. [11]
When he was out on a canvass, his name was a lodestone which drew the farmers to his stump from fifty miles around. [5]
Beside the stump on which his friend had died, he prayed long and earnestly, vowing to his dead preserver to live henceforth solely for his family. [10]
I took it on the stump, that's all. [9]
Burlingame was seated on the stump of a tree which had been made into a seat. [11]
And there, stretched on the ground behind a stump, within twenty feet of the walls, was James. [9]
From military point of view, bad position--ravine, stump fence, brave soldiers in the middle, food for powder--catch it?--see? [11]
Amid the cheers of the bride's friends he leaped from his saddle, mounted a stump and, flapping his arms, crowed in victory. [9]
An English gentleman of long residence here endorses this, and says that a low order of politicians originated the present forms of questionable speech on the stump some years ago, and imported them into the parliament. [5]
The bobtailed Arab's nose was up, his stump was high. [11]
I handed him my cigar, which I had just lit, and he put it in his mouth and returned his stump to his pocket! [5]
Gradually, in the midst of this mad uproar, the crowd became aware that another man was standing upon the stump from which Nicholas Temple had leaped. [9]
And in the midst of it all stood Mr. Cooke, an animated central figure pedestalled on a stump, giving emphatic directions in a voice of authority. [9]
But I thought it might interest you, since you'll have to go on the stump and refute it all. [9]
You can try how you'll manage on your stump without us, if we're too bad for you. [10]
As he sat, his head sunk on his breast, his elbow resting on a stump of pine--the token of a progressive civilisation--his chin upon his hand, he looked like the figure of Moses made immortal by Michael Angelo. [11]
Higher and higher--hitched his foot over the stump of a limb, and looked up, as much as to say, 'You are my meat, friend. [5]
The burning stump happened to fall among the straw of an old mattress which had been ripped open. [6]
He lost a hand in the war that helped to save us and keep us possible, and that stump of his is character enough for me. [8]
You'll have to go on the stump, Hugh--that's all there is to it. [9]
It was a glorious chance to "holler," and I have never since heard any public speaker on the stump or at camp-meeting who could make more noise. [4]
He not only gives medicines, but sets broken limbs after notions of his own, or saws them off and sears the stump when amputation seems best. [5]
Fighting my way forward, I saw him get down from the stump, put his hand kindly on Nick's shoulder, and lead him into the court-house. [9]
I begged again--begged, for a crust, and got the stocks and lost an ear--see, here bides the stump; I begged again, and here is the stump of the other to keep me minded of it. [5]
The tail often differs remarkably in length within the same genus: thus in some species of Macacus it is longer than the whole body, and is formed of twenty-four vertebrae; in others it consists of a scarcely visible stump, containing only three or four vertebrae. [1]
But I had crawled into the hollow of a half-uprooted stump, and the cedar branches, which had been cut off a day or two before, were a screen. [11]
How was the cottonwood stump on the false point below Boardman's Island this morning? [5]
But we never came to an asylum--so I was up a stump, as you may say. [5]
His hairy old breast showed through the night-shirt, which gaped apart; the stump of his left arm lay upon the book to keep it open. [8]
He cannot stroll around a stump and find his way home again. [5]
Conrad recognized Zindau, and now he saw the empty sleeve dangle in the air over the stump of his wrist. [8]
In about half an hour Aunt Sally comes gliding in, and there I was, up a stump again! [5]
If I see a stump, I took it for a man; if I trod on a stick and broke it, it made me feel like a person had cut one of my breaths in two and I only got half, and the short half, too. [5]
When she had a quilting, or Dorcas S'iety at her house she gen'ally borrowed Miss Higgins's wooden leg to stump around on; it was considerable shorter than her other pin, but much she minded that. [5]
I will fling a hint at it from the stump on the polling day. [5]

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