Cordelias heart began to pound lumpishly as she caught the drift of it.

Pham stared back lumpishly, almost as though he didn't buy it and was daring Kjet to think things through.

The scarecrow flew lumpishly away backward, to land with a light rustle in the heather some yards off.

An occasional scrawny cow stared at him lumpishly from between peeled alder poles.

The red-haired teenagers lumpishly hauled the coffin off the wagon and dragged it to the jolly-boat.

And the elemental forms he has settled on are surprisingly versatile: lumpishly funny and childlike but also monumental.

His audience sat lumpishly, as if sun-stunned . . . or perhaps stunned by whatever was now in the air of Haven.

But I stayed lumpishly Faye-colored as the pallbearers eased the body onto a wooden support stand atop the snake-belly roots.

It was, after all, his wedding night, and the dazed and apathetic thing sitting lumpishly on the other side of the fire was his blushing bride.

He draped himself grotesquely in his toweling bathrobe and a pink and white couch-cover, and sat lumpishly in a wing-chair.

There were dour, silent Zeerovers from Holland, lumpishly sitting in their boats, gazing with the dull eyes of gourmands along the course of Chagres.

Now, when there needs little more than to signify your acceptance, why do you sit so lumpishly in your great-great-grandfather's oaken chair, as if preferring it to the gubernatorial one?

The quality of drawing (lumpishly funny shapes and scribbled passages, with pentimenti and half-erasures) becomes the main attraction, along with color, which is strange, saturated and pungent.

In a sense, the Juilliard School's rather lumpishly named "Juilliard Dances Repertory Edition 2005" program, which opened Wednesday at the Juilliard Theater, did just that.

But he is no concert pianist, as was everywhere apparent, most painfully in the transitional passage work in the first movement of the Grieg, which he delivered lumpishly even at a creeping pace.

Wherever the poor blighter went, Pooh or the specter of Pooh was always lumpishly there, a ponderous piece of baggage, quashing his attempts to be perceived as an independent person, man not boy.

The two young lieutenants nodded lumpishly and gaped at each other in stunned and flaccid reluctance, each waiting for the other to initiate the procedure of taking Major Danby outside and shooting him.

Our dear Merdle would then receive his instructions; and would sit heavily among the company at table and wander lumpishly about his drawing-rooms afterwards, only remarkable for appearing to have nothing to do with the entertainment beyond being in its way.

So he looked at Matron, tight-faced and armored in starch, at Miss Guttner sitting lumpishly beyond her, her glasses shining blankly as they picked up the overhead light that filled the room with a necessary illumination against the heaviness of the sky pressing grayly against the windows.