lumpishness

I worry that I'm not measuring up as a good husband to Janet, that I'm disappointing her with my current lumpishness and tendency to forget things.

mac-related question jlundberg 2007

A few of the delightful links that cheered me during the sodden lumpishness:

weeme Diary Entry weeme 2004

He tried to step, but at first it seemed as if his feet must be frozen; yet, after stamping about for a few minutes, they began to lose their feeling of lumpishness and to prickle.

Chums of the Camp Fire Lawrence J. Leslie

She had not a trace of the coarsened blowzy look so common in English country girls; there was nothing of rustic lumpishness in her slim figure, and there was more than mere prettiness in her exquisite small features, her thick dark hair, her clear white skin with

The Hand in the Dark 1907

Her hat too was a change from the careless lumpishness of last year, a hat that, to a feminine mind, would have indicated design.

Love and Mr. Lewisham 1906

Our own contribution to these witty passages was the epigrammatic display of a reeking trunk full of the pretty rubbish people bring away from Rome and Naples, -- copies of Pompeian frescos more ruinous than the originals; photographs floating loose from their cards; little earthen busts reduced to the lumpishness of common clay; Roman scarfs stained and blotted out of all memory of their recent hues; Roman pearls clinging together in clammy masses.

Italian Journeys William Dean Howells 1878

There was a bell in everything for him; Nature gave out her cry, and significance was on all sides of the universe; no dead stuff, no longer any afflicting lumpishness.

Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith George Meredith 1868

There was a bell in everything for him; Nature gave out her cry, and significance was on all sides of the universe; no dead stuff, no longer any afflicting lumpishness.

The Tragic Comedians — Complete George Meredith 1868

There was a bell in everything for him; Nature gave out her cry, and significance was on all sides of the universe; no dead stuff, no longer any afflicting lumpishness.

The Tragic Comedians — Volume 1 George Meredith 1868

When his shyness and lumpishness gave way, he proved so bright that Emily undertook to carry on his education.

Chantry House Charlotte Mary Yonge 1862