Word: clump
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...scarce wide enough for two; often I brushed against rough walls. Once when a lamp sent out a swelling yellow glow I saw an ancient house, primly white, with great green shutters bent forward a little, standing in silence as if listening to ghostly voices and the clump of buckled shoes, now so long silent...
...locker building, P. D. at the head. On the steps a freshman candidate for manager stepped up to Haughton with a message sent him from the field P D swung his arm, grabbed the astounded manager by the shoulder, roughly shoved him out of the path into a clump of shrubs. With a sharp 'Get out of the way, damn you,' he stopped, pointed at the Stadium 'Own it," he said...
...first round the flyweight drew blood from the lip of the blond. Each succeeding round Pancho opened up the cut with a clump or a clout and the blood spurted down the Buddy jaw. Each time Bud came back for more punishment, the human flea bit him. But he remained thoroughly game...
...adventures in entering the cave might fill a volume. The mouth had been completely stopped up, so as to be airtight; and when I succeeded in forcing an entrance; a tremendous puff of noxious gas burst out, asphyxiating me instantly. When I recovered, I found myself in a clump of bushes some distance lower down. Only providence had saved me from falling 563 feet into the river below...