Protruding

Examples

• The blacks, their eyes protruding in horror, watched spellbound. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• He pulled the blanket coat over his head, the roundness of his head protruding now from the dirty yellow folds of the blanket. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• As he did so I staggered back clasping the sword tightly with my arm and thus fell to the ground with his weapon apparently protruding from my chest. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
• All wore strange protruding girdles of dried grass about their hips and many were loaded with brass and copper anklets, armlets and bracelets. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• Both of them were blue-lipped and insensible, with swollen, congested faces and protruding eyes. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• When you see a man with whiskers of that cut and the 'Pink 'un' protruding out of his pocket, you can always draw him by a bet, said he. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• He was deadly pale and terribly emaciated, with the protruding, brilliant eyes of a man whose spirit was greater than his strength. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• He was a middle-sized man, coarsely clad as became his calling, with a coloured shirt protruding through the rent in his tattered coat. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• A folded note half buckled up in the pocket-book, and half protruding from it, caught his observant glance. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• Bones all twisted out of shape, great knots protruding from face and body, joints decaying and dropping away--horrible! Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• There were four protruding fingers and a horrid red, spongy surface where the thumb should have been. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• From where they stood they could just see one of Agustín's boots protruding from the rear of the blind. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.

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