"Lumper" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... church, know that there is no better head than a disciplined Irish one. But in all these cases that master of industry, the stomach, has been well satisfied. Let an Englishman exchange his bread and beer, and beef, and mutton, for no breakfast, for a lukewarm lumper at dinner, and no supper. With such a diet, how much better is he than an Irishman—a Celt, as he calls him? No, the truth is, that the misery of Ireland is not from the human nature that grows there—it is from England's perverse ...
— The trade, domestic and foreign • Henry Charles Carey
... a lumper potato," cried out a surly, gruff voice from a berth opposite. "Monsoon. Who's at ...
— Charles O'Malley, The Irish Dragoon, Volume 1 (of 2) • Charles Lever
... artisan; craftsman, handicraftsman; mechanic, operative; working man; laboring man; demiurgus, hewers of wood and drawers of water, laborer, navvy^; hand, man, day laborer, journeyman, charwoman, hack; mere tool &c 633; beast of burden, drudge, fag; lumper^, roustabout. maker, artificer, artist, wright, manufacturer, architect, builder, mason, bricklayer, smith, forger, Vulcan; carpenter; ganger, platelayer; blacksmith, locksmith, sailmaker, wheelwright. machinist, mechanician, engineer. ...
— Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases: Body • Roget
... to the occasion. Leaving his mother and sisters in lodgings in Melbourne, he made his way to New South Wales with a mob of travelling cattle, earning his pound a week and rations. At Sydney he worked on the wharves as a lumper, and then joined in the wild rush to the famous Tambaroora diggings, and was fortunate enough to meet with remunerative employment, and from then began his mining experiences, which in the course of the following ten years ...
— Chinkie's Flat and Other Stories - 1904 • Louis Becke
... lumper potato," cried out a surly, gruff voice from a berth opposite. "Monsoon. Who's at ...
— Charles O'Malley, The Irish Dragoon, Volume 1 (of 2) • Charles Lever |
