What is "hummums"

Usage examples of "hummums".

A waiter at the Hummums, in which house Ford died, had been absent for some time, and returned, not knowing that Ford was dead.

It was a fine, mild morning, and in the queer light of the false dawn we betook ourselves to the Old Hummums for breakfast.

The steps of the Hummums facing the market harboured already a waiting crowd.

He reassured himself from time to time by looking at the splendid diamond in his pocket, like a talisman, and he spent the afternoon in the Covent Garden hummums, his sparse frame sweating in the hottest room until it could sweat no more.

He had taken Mrs Purviance to her house and then left the two young gentlemen in the neighbourhood of Covent-garden where he believed Mr Mompesson intended to find lodging at the Hummums Hotel, and had then brought the carriage home, assuring the nightwatchman, before going to bed, that all of the party who intended to return that night were safely back.

The wave was lapping at the very shores of Old Hummums Hotel when the officious young waiter reemerged from the rear entrance with a tail-coated constable.

He had been warned by the staff at Hummums to avoid the rookeries at all costs, but he had little concern for his life or scant property.