Lexicographical Neighbors of Humpers
Literary usage of Humpers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Port Folio by Joseph Dennie, Asbury Dickins (1827)
"Claret flowed— humpers were multiplied—and chickens, in the garh of spicy ...
and each voluntarily surrendered a portion of his own reason, in humpers to ..."
2. Proceedings of the ... Annual Convention by Mid-West Cement Users' Association, Indiana Electric Light Association, National Bar Association, Western Canadian Immigration Association, Association of Jewish Libraries (1917)
"CONCRETE CAR humpers AT JAMAICA, L,. I. the combustion of coal are injurious,
coal itself is also, both to steel and wooden trestles, so that all new coal ..."
3. History of Friedrich II of Prussia, Called Frederick the Great by Thomas Carlyle (1858)
"... successively paying our respects ; successively pledged him in so many humpers,
he is lying dead drunk hours ago, could not overhear a cannon-battery, ..."
4. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1824)
"He was constantly picking up dinners, half guineas, and even guineas, by means
of advice ; certain of his old friends were continually sending him humpers ..."
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