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Definition of Bumpily
1. bumpy [adv] - See also: bumpy
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bumpily
Literary usage of Bumpily
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Sunset by Southern Pacific Company, Southern Pacific Company. Passenger Dept (1915)
"... 1906, and with his retort to the soldier who, the same day, commandeered his
automobile and requested him not to drive so bumpily over hot stones while ..."
2. The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine by Roy J. Friedman Mark Twain Collection (Library of Congress) (1913)
"Jerking bumpily back against the White Linen Nurse's unprepared shoulder, the
Little Girl prodded a pallid finger-tip into the White Linen Nurse's vivid ..."
3. Putnam's Magazine (1908)
"As our cab bumpily threaded it? way along the crammed Strand, tí/ bright-colored
mass of humanity arx traffic seemed to me the pre-eminent London. ..."
4. Putnam's Magazine (1908)
"As our cab bumpily threaded its way along the crammed Strand, the bright-colored
mass of humanity and traffic seemed to me the pre-eminent London. ..."
5. The War in the Cradle of the World, Mesopotamia by Eleanor Franklin Egan (1918)
"skirts what was once the Wall, and this we proceeded very bumpily and uncomfortably
to do. Baghdad had a wali once upon a time who conceived for some reason ..."
6. Europe's Morning After by Kenneth Lewis Roberts (1921)
"One runs bumpily along the boundless plains, and then the train hesitates, coughs,
and stops. A car has broken down. It is repaired with wire or an old rope ..."
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