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Plump in

verb

Arrive suddenly and unannounced.

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"Plump in" Quotes from Famous Books

... 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

... leader only a trifle less swiftly, and reached the top of the cellar stairs just in time to receive a whirling object plump in her arms. The object was the incipient statesman, and in a second more the half-wit had also reached the kitchen floor and had shut ...

— Reels and Spindles - A Story of Mill Life • Evelyn Raymond

... 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

... conversation off to yesterday's entertainment, hoping no one had been overtired, and the like. Mrs. Egremont lighted up a little and began telling some of the expressions of delight she had heard, and in the midst, Nuttie, waking from her trance of stiff displeasure, came plump in with 'Oh! and there's a water-soldier, a real Stratiotes aculeatus in your lake. May we get it? Mr. Dutton didn't think we ought, but it ...

— Nuttie's Father • Charlotte M. Yonge

... himself insulted by the word. He started, and raised his head furiously, and the rain, that was waiting for the chance, took him plump in the face. "Not ...

— Under Fire - The Story of a Squad • Henri Barbusse