The 148 occurrences of chump
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A classmate named Stewart Snyder, a competent bulky young man in a gray flannel shirt, a rusty black bow tie, and the green-and-purple class cap, grumbled to her as they walked behind the others in the muck of the South St. Paul stockyards, "These college chumps make me tired.
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Oh, there wasn't much of anything: couple chumps with bellyaches, and a sprained wrist, and a fool woman that thinks she wants to kill herself because her husband doesn't like her and----Just routine work."
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"Well, you 're all chumps.
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I'm a-goin' to use my eyes--my ears have gone off their chumps, what with you and them cats.'
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"I guess we were chumps to tackle him.
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Just because he's sympathetic with the aims of Labor, a lot of chumps that lack liberality and broad-mindedness think he's a crank, but let me tell you there's mighty few of 'em that rake in the fees he does, and he's a friend of some of the strongest; most conservative men in the world--like Lord Wycombe, this, uh, this big English nobleman that's so well known.
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You're one of these enthusiastic chumps that always overdo things.
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It's astonishin' what a lot of fun a man can get in the course of a natural life a-chasm' chumps of wood."
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I heard a couple of marks telling each other just how it was going to work out so as to put 'em all on Easy Street--the darned chumps!
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It seems to make girls such darned chumps.
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"But that only goes to show that most young men are chumps--we were just about yore age then."
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If the People are chumps enough to elect you, then they deserve you.
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Just like these blank old-country chumps!" added Mr. Bates, in a lower voice, but loud enough to be distinctly heard.
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"Here, you people, don't stand there gawking like a lot of dotty chumps!" cried the secretary, striving to whip them out of the mood of horror into which they had fallen.
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I tell you, the Americans are the chumps over here.
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I tell you, the Americans are the chumps over here.
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"We're different, said Jimmy; "our chumps have had to jolly well get used to things.
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"Do you mean to say," said Archie, with honest amazement, "that there are chumps going about loose--absolutely loose--who would pay that for a weird little object like Pongo?"
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I tell you, the Americans are the chumps over here.
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What chumps we were!"
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XVII Pansy and me for Coney Sunday noon To see a perfect lady bump the bumps; We rubbered at the lions with the chumps And took the Wellman special to the moon.
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"Meaning's just this, my son," replied Cop, getting out of his limited running togs into something more respectable, "that if you chumps guessed all day you'd never strike just how the Indian came to this school.
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'Of all the chumps!' exclaimed the Nugget caustically.
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And there were men, no doubt, who would be chumps enough to do it, he thought, as he prepared to shift back to a position of greater safety.
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It is then that, stripped for a brief moment of our armor of complacency and self-esteem, we see ourselves as we are,--frightful chumps in a world where nothing goes right; a gray world in which, hoping to click, we merely get the raspberry; where, animated by the best intentions, we nevertheless succeed in perpetrating the scaliest bloomers and landing our loved ones neck-deep in the gumbo.
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"Most men are chumps."
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"Of all the chumps!" he remarked, and, pouring himself out a further instalment of the raw spirit, he sat down, a beaten man.
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Those chumps mean to get him yet if they can.
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"It certainly was that to those chumps," laughed Lanky.
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"If you are chumps enough to turn out of your comfortable beds at this time of the morning simply to see me, you can't be very hard to please.
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Up to the present the great army of chumps had fallen short of this ideal standard of darned chumphood.
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At a turn of the lane there was a great heap of oak "chumps," crooked logs, sawn in lengths, and piled together.
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Somehow or other he seemed to be more set than any of his chums upon proving to Herb and his comrades, that they had been a lot of chumps who were almost afraid of their own shadows.
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Chumps always make the best husbands.
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Sir Brian reads his letters, and chumps his dry toast.
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"Them professional veniry chumps couldn't hit the side o' Pacific Peak."
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All the Peppers have been chumps.
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He's one of those dreamy, sentimental chumps who----" "It is precisely his sentimentality which is at the bottom of the whole trouble.
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It seemed to me that I had handled his affairs in a pretty masterly manner for a chap who's supposed to be one of the biggest chumps in New York.
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"Darned chumps," Kent classed them sweepingly.
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whin first I see him come to the stable wit' Miss Allis, thinks I, here's wan av thim city chumps; he made me tired.
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My dear, women as a rule are chumps.
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We could hear the swish of the river at no great distance, and soon, stumbling over bushes and bursting through matted chumps of grass, dripping with wet, and utterly tired and dejected, we reached the bank of the stream.
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"Well, I guess I'll go over and see if I can hurry those chumps up some."
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"You fellows are a lot of chumps!" he exclaimed, suddenly getting angry.
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Why couldn't the blamed chumps keep still, so he could show what he is made of?"
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Why, the old chumps must have been trying to prove their grandchildren insane when they made that will.
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Of all the chumps!"
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Is that you, Chumps?
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Pete is an Ace all right--the Ace of Chumps!
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When the Honours List is full of rascals, millionaires, and--er--chumps, you may be quite sure that the Government is dangerously ill. TRANTO.
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We were all such chumps that we cheated ourselves out of the best black bass fishing to-day that ever mortal saw.
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CHAPTER XI A SEARCH FOR A ROWBOAT "Well, of all the chumps in this world, I'm the worst!"
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"We were chumps not to do it."
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"Well, of all the chumps!" cried Snap in disgust.
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Racoons, red foxes, wolves, and pumas frequented the bush country and the chumps of forest.
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I am not interested in the chemicals and the microbes: I leave them to the chumps and noodles, to the blockheads and the muckrakers who are incapable of their own glorious destiny, and unconscious of their own divinity.
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She used to write to Harry and tell him about her Callers and what Chumps they were, and then let him draw his own Conclusions as to who was the real white-haired Papa.
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"But ther railroads is erbout ther biggest chumps ter stand fer all this monkeydoodle business o' train robbin' ez long ez they hev.
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"Why, the big chumps, they look as if they liked it!
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A sort of a ketchy sore-throat, or a bit of a qualm or a korf, Make some idjots go fair orf their chumps on diphtheria, and typhod and such; But then others, who don't like a hupset, put up with the lot, pooty much, Jest to save topsy-turvey and 'oles in the garden, and mud on the stairs; Landlords, likeways, is dabs at postponing, and patching, and 'ushing up scares.
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Occasionally I read paragraphs in weekly papers about immense festivities due to the enterprise of the CHUMPS, and from time to time I received local papers containing long accounts of hunt breakfasts, athletic sports, the roasting of whole oxen, and other such stirring country incidents in which it appeared that the CHUMPS took a prominent part.
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Circumstances made it impossible for me to refuse an invitation to Carchester Manor, and on a certain evening in the first week of December I found myself a guest under the roof of the CHUMPS.
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"They go about it like a lot of chumps.
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and why ain't he comin' on t' camp t' help you chumps giggle?
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I knoo the men, like me, was feelin' chumps: Foolin' with cards while this was in the air.
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Of all the mule-headed chumps----" "Hold your horses, Steve.
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Those men are chumps.
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Listen--I ain't supposed, of course, to have anything to do with this--and when you get it, don't go giving my tip to other chumps.
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Tea was so hot and fragrant, the house so cosey, and the girls so pretty, that Jack said:-- "What chumps we men were to waste the whole day in town!"
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"On horseback, when such chumps as you can be found.
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"Have I got to wait until sunset for you lazy chumps to get a full night's rest?"
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If the Captain had been here he'd have killed a half dozen of the chumps before they got out of range!" and so on.
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'But we were chumps to give up our revolvers.
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"Of all the chumps!" he muttered; and he turned, and poising the ball again, flung it with all his strength at the master's door.
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The persistent rider finally deserted him, however, at the ford over the Sinsiniwa, shouting derisively back from a safe distance that the Miners' Club was a lot of chumps, and promising them a severe "jolt" in the near future.
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An' you chumps wanter--eh--git--yerselves up so she can't pipe any of ye off--eh--in this yere--eh--road-agent act.
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"You're enough to wake the dead, Chumps!
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Hereward, otherwise "Chumps," put his feet together in the second position, flung out his arms in what was intended to be a graceful attitude, and made a mock bow worthy of the cinema stage.
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It'll be harder to get rid of him than of them chumps."
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"Well, you're all chumps.
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What chumps we were."
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Around them dozens of red helmets are bobbing, while the quivering air is cut and slashed and mangled with a very hurricane of orders: "Bring up that hose--" "Whoa, keep that horse still--" "Bring her round this way--" "Bring her round _this_ way--" "Hey, you chumps, the fire's _this_ side--" "Back up that wagon--" "Come ahead with the wagon--" "Get out of here till we get a ladder up--" "Axes here--" "Turn on that water--" "Turn on that water--" "_Turn on that water!
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Excepting the chumps!"
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Ven Rudolph hears dis, he chumps mit joyness, und says, "Fader, fader, dot's all righd.
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Putty soon Rudolph chumps oud indo der shurchyard to got some air.
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Den dat nice leedle child comes oud, und Leah comes back; und ven she sees dot child, don'd she feel orful aboud dot, und she says mit affectfulness, "Come here, leedle child, I voodn'd harm you;" und dot nice leedle child goes righd up, and Leah chumps on her, und grabs her in her arms, und gries, and kisses her.
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"Say, we were chumps that we didn't telephone ahead from Beechwood!" cried Sam.
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"Rabbits must be chumps to walk right into a contraption like that without any reason, when they've miles of space to go around," Charley declared.
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"What chumps we were!" said the young man presently.
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It is then that, stripped for a brief moment of our armour of complacency and self-esteem, we see ourselves as we are--frightful chumps in a world where nothing goes right; a grey world in which, hoping to click, we merely get the raspberry; where, animated by the best intentions, we nevertheless succeed in perpetrating the scaliest bloomers and landing our loved ones neck-deep in the gumbo.
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"Most men are chumps."
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(Those who are chumps enough to miss it deserve no consideration.)
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And there were men, no doubt, who would be chumps enough to do it, he thought, as he prepared to shift back to a position of greater safety.
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Yet do I dream of motherhood, when man One day at last shall look upon my charms And give me towns, like children, for my arms._ A COWBOY'S WORRYING LOVE I UST to read in the novel books 'bout fellers that got the prod From an arrer shot from his hidin' place by the hand o' the Cupid god, An' I'd laugh at the cussed chumps they was a-wastin' their breath in sighs An' goin' around with a locoed look a-campin' inside their eyes.
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We've only got one more day, then comes Sunday, and the morning after----" "We're off!" cried George, as he cast a fond look toward his swift speed boat; and then glanced around in a way that told how much he pitied these poor "chumps" who actually imagined they had a ghost of a chance to win the long race.
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Wood, apparently chumps of the tholh.