There being rumps tied upon sticks and carried up and down.
The butchers at the May Pole in the Strand rang a merry peal with their knives when they were going to sacrifice their rump.

On Ludgate Hill there was one turning of the spit that had a rump tied upon it, and another basting of it.

Indeed, it was past imagination, both the greatness and the suddenness of it.

At one end of the street you would think there was a whole lane of fire, and so hot that we were fain to keep on the further side." This burning of the Rump meant that the attempt of a miserable minority to pose as King, Lords, and Commons, had broken down, and that the restoration of Charles, for good or ill, was the decree of the people.

A modern Republican might without disgrace have bowed to the gale, for such an one, unless hopelessly fanatical, denies the divine right of republics equally with that of kings, and allows no other title than that of the consent of the majority of citizens.