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  • I never know contestants will be evaluatued on humpiness, eyelash length and general orneriness.

    Nunc Scio » Blog Archive » My humps, my humps, my lovely [camel] lumps 2008

  • Like tailors 'dummies they were headless; and like tailors' dummies they had a handsome unnecessary humpiness in the shoulders, and a pigeon-breasted protuberance of chest; but barring this, they were not much more like a human figure than any automatic machine at a station that is about the human height.

    The Father Brown Omnibus Chesterton, G. K. 2003

  • Like tailors 'dummies they were headless; and like tailors' dummies they had a handsome unnecessary humpiness in the shoulders, and a pigeon-breasted protuberance of chest; but barring this, they were not much more like a human figure than any automatic machine at a station that is about the human height.

    The Innocence of Father Brown: The Invisible Man Gilbert Keith 1911

  • Like tailors 'dummies they were headless; and like tailors' dummies they had a handsome unnecessary humpiness in the shoulders, and a pigeon-breasted protuberance of chest; but barring this, they were not much more like a human figure than any automatic machine at a station that is about the human height.

    The Innocence of Father Brown 1905

  • Like tailors’ dummies they were headless; and like tailors’ dummies they had a handsome unnecessary humpiness in the shoulders, and a pigeon-breasted protuberance of chest; but barring this, they were not much more like a human figure than any automatic machine at a station that is about the human height.

    The Complete Father Brown 2003

  • Like tailors’ dummies they were headless; and like tailors’ dummies they had a handsome unnecessary humpiness in the shoulders, and a pigeon-breasted protuberance of chest; but barring this, they were not much more like a human figure than any automatic machine at a station that is about the human height.

    The Complete Father Brown 2003

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