Примеры dumpy

• Kennedy describes her with unflinching accuracy as 'very short, dumpy and pleasant-looking rather than attractive' (32).

• Every carcase is about the same weight and the same size; it is not a case of one carcase being long and narrow and another short and dumpy.

• A variation on the dumpy and one that was often used by surveyors, where greater accuracy and error checking was required, is a tilting level.

• Dumpy levelling requires shorter and therefore more numerous sights, but this fault is compensated by the practice of making foresights and backsights equal.

• They fight about his roving eye, her cooking, his earning power, her excessive shopping, and the fact that both are middle-aged and dumpy-looking.

• A dumpy and fussy woman who holds opinions to extent beyond reasonable limit, but holds positive interests at heart.

• A squat, square tower with obelisks and flying buttresses carrying a dumpy spire.

• Its shape was dumpy and squat more like a concertina than an accordion.

• He also intended to design her as dumpy and podgy to make her more lovable.

• Rebuilding, including the dumpy tower, took place in the early 17th century.

• It is a rather dumpy horse, with a big head and long ears.

• They are dumpy birds with long necks and legs and curved bills and a hunched posture.

• Ursca is the dumpy infirmarian of the priestess's dwellings.

• Some dumpy levels will have a bubble level ensuring an accurate level.

• Both went through handsome, dashing men by the carload, but through the years stuck with one short, dumpy, seemingly uninteresting guy.