galumphing

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I suppose the first theme represented the 'galumphing' of his horse, and that funny triangular fugue meant that the horse was lame in one leg and was going it on three.

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  • There's still a surplus of tracks that pit towering, seismic basslines against needling, crumbling old turn-of-the-70s synths -- waxing vaguely sinister and modestly head-nod-worthy in the stagger-step "Cyclotron", galumphing along to the accompaniment of a mid-seizure Speak & —  Pitchfork: Latest News
  • She is a great galumphing middle-aged woman who dresses too young, can't even button a sweater correctly, but who can, with professional assistance, look acceptable about one time out of five. —  Latest Articles
  • He left it dead, and with its head He went galumphing back. —  The Nation: Top Stories
  • Unlike her beautiful, bilious conservative female counterparts or the cocksure boys-on-the-bus analysts, however, Maddow didn't get here by bluster and bravado but with a combination of crisp thinking and galumphing good cheer. —  92Y Blog
  • But the sadistic, voyeuristic medium of so-called reality TV was simply a fly-trap waiting for someone such as Jade to come galumphing along and satisfy the cruel moronic tastes that the programme sets out to satisfy. —  Home | Mail Online
 

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