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He has humped his swag in Australia, has earned fifteen shillings a day there as a blackleg protected by police picquets on a New South Wales coal mine.

From An Australian in China Being the Narrative of a Quiet Journey Across China to Burma by Morrison, George Ernest

This one also has humped segments, and the claspers of the thirteenth segment are imperfectly developed.

From Butterflies and Moths (British) by Furneaux, William S.

However many diagrams and wonderful ideas these remarkable amateur experts publish they won't "go down" with the man who has humped his pack and has "been out."

From At Suvla Bay Being the notes and sketches of scenes, characters and adventures of the Dardanelles campaign, made by John Hargrave ("White Fox") while serving with the 32nd field ambulance, X division, Mediterranean expeditionary force, during the great war. by Hargrave, John