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The tail is not conducive to swiftness of pace, being ill adapted by its stumpiness to act as a rudder to direct the body.

From The Sportsman by Dakyns, Henry Graham

Its broad stumpiness, of course, makes wind-waving or even shaking out of the question, but it is not this rocky rigidity that constitutes its silence.

From The Yosemite by Muir, John

Its broad stumpiness, of course, precludes all possibility of waving, or even shaking; but it is not this rocky steadfastness that constitutes its silence.

From The Mountains of California by Muir, John

It was the shortness of the fingers, or rather, of the first joint, a general look of stumpiness, the nails trained to long points to hide the deficiency.

From Juggernaut by Campbell, Alice