tumps

There was an array of cheeses, laid out with artful casualness, and neat tumps of sausages, glistening and tied to each other with string.

Joe Gazzano obituary Matthew Fort 2010

There – where pines let out on to the open hill, where sunlight and shadow slid across old ant tumps – a stick?

Country Diary: Wenlock Edge 2011

Who, from the tumps with bright green mosses clad,

Passion and Romantic Poetics 1998

Have you ever been feverish and had all noises divide into 'tump-tump-tump' until you could swear eternity was divisible into so many tumps?

Book 2, Chapter 3. Young Irony. 1920

Have you ever been feverish and had all noises divide into 'tump-tump-tump' until you could swear eternity was divisible into so many tumps?

This Side of Paradise 1918

British farmer will doubtless stolidly retort that thunderbolts often strike the tops of hills, which are just the places where barrows and tumuli (tumps, he calls them) most do congregate; and that as to the skeleton, isn't it just as likely that the man was killed by the thunderbolt as that the thunderbolt was made by a man?

Falling in Love With Other Essays on More Exact Branches of Science Grant Allen 1873

Among these tumps grew numerous small clusters of bushes, above which, we shortly discovered the flapping ears of the elephants, they were slowly feeding towards the more open ground.

The Rifle and the Hound in Ceylon Samuel White Baker 1857

We do not like to be too positive about præ-historic tumps, but this certainly looks very like one.

Sketches of Travel in Normandy and Maine Edward Augustus Freeman 1857

The missus and I had a go at turning a piece of scrubland near where we live into an allotmenta few years back, an experience largely remembered for the moments spent recoiling in horror after sticking my hand in big tumps of half-buried cat poo while trying to cultivate our new onion patch.

WalesOnline - Home 2011

I saw copper-skinned people filing between isolated mountains, baskets weighted across their foreheads on leather tumps.

NPR Topics: News 2010