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In a hazy, fossil-like way he perceives that to a young girl's mind the "rumness" of a second husband is exactly proportionate to the readiness of its acceptance of the first.

From Somehow Good by De Morgan, William Frend

Yet even such young men are capable of finding the rumness of strange towns a passable enough lark, to say nothing of the general unexpectedness of life.

From The Best Short Stories of 1917 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story by O'Brien, Edward J. (Edward Joseph Harrington)

Mr. Dodd," he replied, "you see something of the rumness of this job, but not the whole.

From The Wrecker by Stevenson, Robert Louis