Example Sentences

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Flood alerts are in place on the north Cornwall coast from The Rumps to Hartland Point, excluding Bude.

From BBC • Sep. 27, 2023

How is it, Planchet, that an intelligent man like you should take any heed of a set of brawlers who call themselves Rumps and Barebones.

From Ten Years Later by Dumas père, Alexandre

After a mile or so we came upon a small outpost, and they told us that we should be safe as far as Rumps, about three miles farther, where their main outpost was placed.

From A Surgeon in Belgium by Souttar, Henry Sessions

How is it, Planchet, that an intelligent man like yourself should take any heed of a set of brawlers who call themselves Rumps and Barebones?

From The Vicomte De Bragelonne by Dumas père, Alexandre

One of the little Rumps has been left on the other side of the canal!

From The Funny Philosophers Wags and Sweethearts by Yellott, George