stomp

Updated: June 19, 2025

Then the hair along his backbone stood up like the quills upon the fretful porcupine, and he growled. "A strange Kafir, I expect," said Bessie to herself. Stomp hated strange Kafirs. She had scarcely uttered the words before they were justified by the appearance of a native.

Henry Rider Haggard - Jess

"Well, suh, 'co'se mos' on 'em b'lieve same as yo' pa; but dat sutney fotch 'em, an' win de de-bate, 'case dey jass natchully lay back an' roah, dey did, Missy; dey laff an' stomp an' holler tell you could a hearn 'em a mild away. An' honey, yo' pa'd a millyum times druther Mist' Vanrevel'd a kilt him dan tuhn de laff on him.

Booth Tarkington - The Two Vanrevels

Now try your thumb, rubbing your hand-smoothed charcoal into a finer and closer mesh: and for the still more atmospheric distances down this same street, use next a rag, then a buckskin stomp, and last of all a stiff paper stomp, each in turn producing a more atmospheric gray as the distances fade the last, the paper stomp, being as soft as a wash of India ink. All these you may say are tricks.

Francis Hopkinson Smith - Outdoor Sketching: Four Talks Given before the Art Institute of Chicago; The Scammon Lectures, 1914