up a stump

But we never came to an asylum - so I was up a stump, as you may say.

He had never tried to pull up a stump in his life, and didn't want to start.

"That was cool, but I want to see you blow up a stump!"

"But now we was up a stump, for we couldn't go to bed.

So you won't be up a stump entirely.

Well, I see I was up a stump- and up it good.

I went to tell Mr. Wolfe about it, and we're up a stump because we don't know her well enough.

So X was up a stump.

I said goodnight again and went out, leaving him there moving his mind around with the ponderous energy of a homesteader digging up a stump.

I see I was up a stump again, so I played another chicken bone and got another think.

In about half an hour Aunt Sally comes gliding in, and there I was, up a stump again!

Chopping up a stump.

"If that belief could be validated I admit I would be up a stump myself.

You're up a stump, ain't you!"

He never saw his nephew without wondering when he would say: "Look here, Uncle Soames, I'm up a stump."

"He was chopping up a stump and his footing slipped," Vere said, as they lowered Kyle down into the seat Darian had just vacated.

But sounding very much like he was tuning up a stump speech for his next Presidential campaign, he warned, "Politics and regulation can proliferate and alter or even suffocate creativity and entrepreneurship."

But when it came to indorsing the warrant for return, we were all up a stump, and rode twenty miles out of our way so as to pass Squire Little's ranch and get his advice on the matter.

He crawled spiderlike across the cage, a grotesque figure in his ragged trousers and swathed feet, picked up a stump of wild celery from the ground, nibbled it, then tossed it at the grumbling gorilla's feet.

Foot recounts a story from a match against Nottinghamshire in which Bill Voce was experimenting with leg theory bowling: "(Case) missed the ball, fell in a ludicrous heap and then picked up a stump instead of the bat."

I grinned as I wrote the "Dear sir," but the grin was bunk, because if Wolfe hadn't told me to be democratic I would have been up a stump and probably would have had to try something like "Dearest Marquis."

In order to obtain this raw material for knees builders may dig up a stump in its entirety, as unlike other portions of the tree, it is impossible to judge the quality and quantity of available material in the roots as they are underground.