What is "bumpily"

Usage examples of "bumpily".

The extreme good looks of his boyhood had not faded, though they had become more manly-his nose, thank all the gods, had lengthened to a form properly, bumpily Roman, and saved him from a prettiness which would have been a great burden to one who so ardently desired to be everything a man should be-soldier, statesman, lover of women without suspicion that he was also a lover of men.

Bundled ignominiously into a candlewick bedspread and then dragged bumpily along the corridor, they protested loudly.

His leg caught in a support and the rest of him fanned bumpily against metal, pivoting around head first.

Slowly, bumpily, the sleigh began to move across the snow into the darkness.

There was a throw of skin in the bathtub, bumpily billowing like a sheet with lovers under it.

It struck the roof tiles, slid bumpily down the slope of the roof, disappeared over the edge, and landed with a crash on the paving below.

Mostly their hands were very soft and just moist enough to go bumpily instead of smoothly over his body.

Nevertheless, though the reader moves bumpily along, he remains interested, never losing track of the disparate variety of characters and situations.

As the train gasped slowly up the grade and rolled bumpily at last along the fertile, neglected Syrian highland, all the Armenians on the train removed their hats and substituted the red tarboosh, preferring the headgear of a convert rather than be the target of every Bedouin with a rifle in his hand.

Nevertheless I did not intend to pose that steep challenge to the Maxwell today, and drove steadily if bumpily toward the Pacific Grove gate to the Seventeen Mile Drive.

She jumped into the car and drove it bumpily beneath the lowest branch.

I told myself, kicking a little heap of conkers out of my path and watching them roll bumpily away from me.

Makes me goose bumpily all over just imagining what sorts of wicked things he could do, too.

Denis, who, after the contest with the spivs, had seated himself beside the driver whilst the Irishmen, nursing their guns, lay bumpily asprawl among the cargo.

There was a vague sort of scuffle, in the course of which Hustav lost his footing and bumpily fell down the steps, dragging Hedron after him.