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Plump in

verb

Arrive suddenly and unannounced.

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"Plump in" Quotes from Famous Books

... white despairing face. Suddenly, as he emerged from a thick bit of woods, he became conscious of a strange light encircling him, and halting, quite terrified at the phenomenon, he beheld a little old man, snow-haired and bearded, standing plump in ...

— Connor Magan's Luck and Other Stories • M. T. W.

... evidently was, sweet and good and fresh like one, with something of a flower's gravity, too. That could be seen at a glance; also that she was rather a little person, though full and plump in figure, and hardly pretty, at least in contrast with her brilliant neighbour. Wych Hazel's first ...

— Wych Hazel • Susan and Anna Warner

... wasn't so fat—he was plump in the stomach, but not so really round all over as in the old pictures of him. But perhaps that is because when they were taken there weren't so many children in the world to make things for, and he has grown just a little ...

— Half-Past Seven Stories • Robert Gordon Anderson

... fact that a visit to a physician in Boston had relieved the bandaged arm of all except the slightest form of a splint, and to literally lift Houston into the buggy, tossing his baggage in after him, then plump in ...

— The White Desert • Courtney Ryley Cooper

... the end of the chain through the knot, Pat, possessed by some Hibernian notion that now all was fast, let go of the bit. Jenny's head at once went under, and the end of the logging chain glided over the ice and fell plump in the hole. ...

— The Blazed Trail • Stewart Edward White