She resumes the chair she had risen from when he came in, and thereupon he, suffering fearfully from having no breathing-apparatus and nothing to use it on, makes concession to a chair himself, but all the while waves a stumpy finger to keep Sally's last remark alive till his voice comes.
"Somehow Good"
William de Morgan
Then, before the young lady could realize it, one of the stumpy arms had stolen round her waist.
"A Poached Peerage"
William Magnay
The spines of the scutellum are stumpy, a character which is of importance in classification, since quite often flies occur which have no noticeable disturbance of the eyes.
"Sex-linked Inheritance in Drosophila"
Thomas Hunt Morgan Calvin B. Bridges