A time before the white lightning and the bumming had turned him inside out.

He started to turn toward the others behind him, but then he heard it; a low bumming from far down the track.

The only sound was the lonely bumming of the maintenance 'bot.

He could even remember back to where all the bumming had started, the Big One, the Great Depression.

"Going bumming," she mumbled with conviction.

Skirted by Macajalar Bay, snorkeling and beach bumming is one of the pastimes.

Rather as a mediocre pick- pocket and a timorous confidence man had he eked out a meager existence, amply punctuated by seasons of straight bumming and intervals spent as the guest of various inhospitably hospitable states.

I should say the word and bum the two of them.

Life's too short to go around looking like a bum.

You think my own son is some kind of a bum?

"So what will people do when they finally run out of bush to bum?"

He thought that even the bum might be the same.

He was a street bum at the moment, but there had been better days.

I have more serious work here - a bum situation.

"The bum should have been out of there a long time ago."

"Am I going to end up a bum like that in a few more years?"

He has a fight in three weeks with another bum.

He looked to be about two steps up from a bum, too.

"You can go straight from here to a life on the bum."

Although, I told myself, not quite so much a bum as the village might believe.

The guy's a bum, yeah, but he was still her husband, seven years together and now he's dead.

Why the paper suit, like a bum off the street?

No dog's bum at the top of the show tonight.

Indeed, it seemed to bum, though only with black fire.

"We look at the bum first to see that the color is good," he said.

Not with a bum I picked off the front step and gave a job to.

And the man who seemed to have had the most to do with all of it was the village bum.

Therefore, once you find a bum part, you're probably done.

They just bump my bum from behind to get past.

Paul, must I have them bum another hole in you?

But I've gone from a bum to an average player to a star for a while.

Summer may be over, but that never stopped a real beach bum.

She could not move; he was going to bum her!

They could easily bum their way through that, he knew.

"Looks like we're going to have to bum a ride."

"How about I bum a drink off of you, instead?"

And the only way they'll bum us out is when there's no one left to stop them."

If he got anywhere near the truck, Sam would bum him down.

She blessed me with seven sons, and yet I let them bum her.

She wanted to bum him down to his sneakers, smiling like that.

"There is not enough wood about to bum these bodies," I said.

So we bum twelve hundred and ninety of them per second.

The fire it breathed would bum them both to death before the thing came close enough to be stabbed.

Better to bum them, no matter how painful it may be to do so."

"When we get there can you bum a buck off her?

There's going to be a dinner afterward, and I'll bum a ride from someone.

More than that, I ought to bum these clothes, or bury them.

Often physicians can go along at nine hundred miles an hour for years and then suddenly bum themselves out.

"Are you proud when the sailors bum down the houses?"

If he ever shows up around me, I'll bum him down!"

Hang around long enough and I may bum a ride home."

I'm thinking he either wants to bum a quarter to play a video game or he's looking to provoke a fight.

They wouldn't have a phone, but maybe he could bum a cup of coffee, even a ride into town.

"I can bum a ride home, or take the train.

His flesh was hot but did not bum me.

They don't want to bum their fingers, Lowell thought, by getting too close to the fire.

"For me what's important is excluding myself from people who might bum me out."