Tommy would lumber off, sulking with his wet, chewed-up bone.
"I've never seen an elephant," said Mr. Ngoverne, a 26-year-old primary school teacher, who traveled 12 miles from his rural village to see them lumber off into the bush.
He would often go down to the teahouse in Kalapani bazaar and sit for several hours, watching buses fill and lumber off up the mountain to Murree or to Kashmir, or race, brakes squealing at the curves, down to the cities, honking their horns to call the passengers.
C.R.T. monitors, those big boxes that took over every desk in America, are about to lumber off into business history, directly behind typewriters and carbon paper.
He was frustrated, vexed, abstracted with technical snafus, and unhappy that some of us had to leave soon and would not get to see Animaris Gubernare lumber off into the sunset (as it did successfully the following day).
Perhaps, like some of Orkney's other standing stones, they return to life on New Year's Day and lumber off to the lake or loch nearby to slake their thirst.
