rumptious

Example Sentences

• "I am not one to scourge such a rumptious and beautiful arse such as you are quite properly displaying to us now, my dear. Push it out more, and you also, Caroline. More, girls, more! Ah, yes indeed, that is better. What vaselike forms their hips take, do they not, Jonathan?"
• "Inebriated, she didn't feel a thing, thinking she was being pinched and stroked, when he inserted a small needle into her rumptious tush, putting her soundly to sleep."
• "Due to the overwhelming interest—throughout human history, it seems—in this particular feature of our anatomy, I feel, before we look at exercises, a special word must be given to these rumptious rounds of misery and delight."
• "But to speak in that rumptious manner! No! I can't never believe it! She was sich a simple one, was our Hannah—allays ready to cry if spoke to, almost a natural as you may say, but never 'aughty or proud."
• "In the inner office behind the closed door John Senior could be heard moving restlessly about. ¶ "Old man's rumptious!" said Fannie over her shoulder. ¶ But John Senior was more than rumptious. He was mad—mad all through at the turn of Fate that had dropped his letter to Moulton into Eben Braithwaite's outstretched hand. . . . He flung himself into a chair and hunched his shoulders and looked at it."
• "In the hands of a skillful writer, the South's colorful cast of genteel aristocrats, coquettish belles, devoted mammies, and rumptious hill folk could be enchanting."