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  • There were seven patrons, counting Sims and me, and four guys on the bandstand—a goateed sax and his hunchy sidemen.

    Underworld Don Delillo 2008

  • There were seven patrons, counting Sims and me, and four guys on the bandstand—a goateed sax and his hunchy sidemen.

    Underworld Don Delillo 2008

  • There were seven patrons, counting Sims and me, and four guys on the bandstand—a goateed sax and his hunchy sidemen.

    Underworld Don Delillo 2008

  • My physician ran the first hs-CRP test on a hunchy because I have a family history of cardiovascular disease, including a sibling who died at the age of 48 while on the heart transplant list.

    Krill oil and inflammation | The Blog of Michael R. Eades, M.D. 2007

  • Turning, Weldon looked long into the jovial Irish face, and at the hunchy figure that joggled to and fro in the saddle, with no heed to the rhythm of his horse's pace.

    On the Firing Line Hamilton Brock Fuller 1905

  • What perfection of grace she seemed after the waddling, hunchy

    Two Little Savages Being the adventures of two boys who lived as Indians and what they learned Ernest Thompson Seton 1903

  • Fondly hoping no one would observe it, she sewed bright buttons wherever they could be put, and sent confiding Boo away in a pair of blue trousers, which were absurdly hunchy behind and buttony before.

    Jack And Jill Alcott, Louisa May, 1832-1888 1902

  • "Look at poor little Bing puffin 'about," said his neighbour, pointing to a weazened, hunchy waiter.

    The Island Pharisees John Galsworthy 1900

  • Boo away in a pair of blue trousers, which were absurdly hunchy behind and buttony before.

    Jack and Jill Louisa May Alcott 1860

  • I'm a little hunchy villain and a monster, am I, Mrs Jiniwin? Oh! '

    The Old Curiosity Shop Charles Dickens 1841

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