Thus, also, you pass from the lumpish grub in the earth to the airy and fluttering butterfly.
Keep that lumpish air for your doctoral uniform.
I soon fell into the work, and scarcely needed the instructions of the lumpish, growling engineer.
You hear no strains of country drollery, and no characters of curious or eccentric humor; all is dull, plodding, and lumpish.
It is a soft lumpish sort of creature, with a great number of short arms and tentacles around the mouth, none armed with suckers.
His lumpish face was deeply seamed and wrinkled.
He had a lumpish, thick-featured face, with lips heavy and loosely hanging, that gave him an air of stupidity, half droll, half pathetic.
Done in brute silence, with a lumpish look and a clumsy gait, the work was perfectly well done nevertheless.
