They're taken in punishment

Usage examples of lumps.

TV screen, his best and only friend, the giant Zenith, literally bigger than he is, bigger than life, an angel, a devil, a god, sucking in amber waves of radiation that will cause his hair to repeal at twenty-three, watching Johnny fucking Quest fight the lizards and live the two-dimensional four-color good life like a young, cartoon Hemingway, wishing his mom and dad were there to hold him and tell him that everything was alright and to promise him that life would not become boring and predictable and that he would not wish for death while slurping booze in a death-disco fernless bar while being watched -- and he KNEW it -- through small eyes by two dead-fish women whose bitterness was oozing through their skin, literally, oozing, only to be held in check by a wall, a fortification, really, of caked-on, buckling makeup, psychically pin-pricked by these lumps of plodding DNA?

The radar was pointed down into the dirt, and returned echoes from lumps of differing density.

Ahab awoke momentarily and, mistaking the lumps of boots for something else, considered eating them.

The pig-bird in the corner yowled once, then looked about to gauge its effect The Squire went over and poked several lumps of bread through the cage bars, and the thing was immediately satisfied, apparently liking the look of the Squire.

Otherwise the ground was all smooth rolling lumps and tiny hills, a beautiful, shining surface that no track had yet disturbed, since only she had come there.

Even that far, neither riders or horses would eat the freshwater fish, which grew strange lumps on their bodies.

Because his undressing was simpler, he had time to punch up the fire and add several lumps of coal.

He stirred it, adding many lumps of coal, while she pumped water into the tin heating pails and set three of them on the stove top.

The women charge into the closed door where, instead of the lumps and bruises normal experience would offer, they pass through with no resistance.

She pointed to several black lumps visible above the sand a hundred yards up the beach.

It was sticky and full of lumps, but it was food, and there was enough honey to make it taste all right.

The Grid and fucked and sucked and squirmed and squeezed and licked and swallowed and thrust and parried and pureed and mashed and diced and attacked and retreated and submitted and dominated and slapped and bled and drank and spit and twitched and quivered and slid and slopped, and, well, it was too much for the old synapses back home in the physical body, and they, well, they blew engines and tires and transmissions, they DIED, many of them, hundreds a day, and they were carted off, stiff and smiling -- most died smiling -- except those that had been CLAPPED: they died with their eyes open, twitching -- and the bodies were carted away by orderlies and dumped onto The Disposal Carriage, which moved briskly away like an airport escalator and carried the fleshy lumps behind a curtain where they toppled over the edge of The Ramp and down into a large vat.

Her graceful figure was gone, replaced by broken bones half-buried beneath bloody lumps of meat and flesh.

He could make out the individual lumps of earth at the top and the base, but the slabs of earth toward the center seemed blurred.

They are obdurate lumps of red or reddish brown or dark chocolate-colored stone.