This day old Abe Pike, humped up on the counter, with his heels drumming against the side of it, was holding forth on the iniquity of Parliament, when a stranger entered, wringing wet, and Abe stopped to investigate his appearance.
"Tales from the Veld"
Ernest Glanville
"I don't know," mumbled Wiley, and humped up over his letter, but it did not produce the effect he had hoped for.
"Shadow Mountain"
Dane Coolidge
Yellowhammers have a habit of sitting on a rail or bough with their shoulders humped, so that they seem to have no neck.
"Wild Life in a Southern County"
Richard Jefferies