Being no great marksmen, their shots are not often effective; but every now and then, a great shout from the besieging army of bumpkins makes known the downfall of some unlucky squab rook, which comes to the ground with the emphasis of a squashed apple-dumpling.
"Bracebridge Hall, or The Humorists"
Washington Irving
The back was formed of a glass partition, pretty well covered with books, but not so closely as to hide the whole shop from the occupants of the snug parlour, where little, thin Miss Clode sat one fine morning, like a dried specimen of her niece, Annie Slade, a stout young lady nicknamed dumpling by the bucks who made the place a sort of social exchange.
"The Master of the Ceremonies"
George Manville Fenn
"Passover, the season of our deliverance-here, body, catch a dumpling!
"Stories and Pictures"
Isaac Loeb Peretz