A large rock was the only protuberance on the smooth face of the polished marble wall. From LearnThat.org.
The occipital protuberance was well developed. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
The protuberance of his belly. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
He's quite round in the shoulders; and yet so inconsistent are women that she calls a protuberance that resembles the letter C the line of beauty. From Wordnik.com. [Willy Reilly The Works of William Carleton, Volume One] Reference
The interior of the protuberance, which is the fruiting part of the fungus, contains numerous black, flask-like structures whose tips reached the surface. From Wordnik.com. [Northern Nut Growers Association, Report of the Proceedings at the Fourth Annual Meeting Washington D.C. November 18 and 19, 1913] Reference
That protuberance which is next the tip holds it on. From Wordnik.com. [Colonial Children] Reference
But feeling a kind of protuberance on its head, he blew the feathers apart, and behold! the head of a pin!. From Wordnik.com. [Sixty Folk-tales from Exclusively Slavonic Sources] Reference
Bombifrons: front of head with a blister-like protuberance. From Wordnik.com. [Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology] Reference
Folioles: leaf-like processes from a margin or protuberance. From Wordnik.com. [Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology] Reference
He tapped a large square protuberance between the shoulders. From Wordnik.com. [The Forever War]
The quicker the earth rotates the greater is the protuberance. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 324, March 18, 1882] Reference
At the equator, the whole protuberance of the earth is about 13 miles. From Wordnik.com. [Outlines of a Mechanical Theory of Storms Containing the True Law of Lunar Influence] Reference
A soft fleshy protuberance at the forehead (the snood) resembles a finger. From Wordnik.com. [5 Chicken] Reference
"That protuberance is the result of an injury as a small child," Lavinia said. From Wordnik.com. [Soul] Reference
It also has a yellow-tipped protuberance growing on the crown between the eyes. From Wordnik.com. [5 Chicken] Reference
My eye was taken by a peculiar sort of protuberance at the foot of the mainmast. From Wordnik.com. [Stories by English Authors: the Sea] Reference
Who chiseled these mighty and picturesque masses out of a mere protuberance of earth?. From Wordnik.com. [The Mountain that was 'God' Being a Little Book About the Great Peak Which the Indians Named 'Tacoma' but Which is Officially Called 'Rainier'] Reference
It is convenient to regard it thus, and afterwards make the correction for protuberance. From Wordnik.com. [Outlines of a Mechanical Theory of Storms Containing the True Law of Lunar Influence] Reference
Skinny borrowed a pin and lanced the white protuberance at the base of his second finger. From Wordnik.com. [A Son of the City A Story of Boy Life] Reference
Antennal process: Diptera; the frontal protuberance upon which the antennae are inserted. From Wordnik.com. [Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology] Reference
= A secreting surface or structure; a protuberance having the appearance of such an organ. From Wordnik.com. [Seasoning of Wood] Reference
When first hatched out the young fish have a large translucent protuberance on the under-surface. From Wordnik.com. [Amateur Fish Culture] Reference
You will discover some evening redness dashed or sprinkled on some protuberance or in some cavity. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 61, November, 1862] Reference
They looked strange and robotic, as lifeless in their glassy protuberance as Mindy's grim black ones. From Wordnik.com. [Maud Newton's 'Conversations You Have At Twenty': Narrative Magazine's Friday Feature] Reference
The protuberance on the forehead is not a horn (as supposed by some), but merely a thickening of the bone. From Wordnik.com. [Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 3, July, 1851] Reference
The earlier in life this protuberance is punctured the more quickly he will become useful to himself and family. From Wordnik.com. [Watch Yourself Go By] Reference
Given the opportunity, he would hit an easy target over the head no matter what shape or form that protuberance took. From Wordnik.com. [Trouble Magnet]
He was interrupted in 'necking' bullets, for they were cast in a mold and left a little protuberance where the run left off. From Wordnik.com. [The Lincoln Story Book] Reference
The protoplasm of the other protuberance divides into many small masses, furnished with cilia, the spermatozoids or male cells. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 531, March 6, 1886] Reference
But, it will be said, is not this American trade an unnatural protuberance, that has drawn the juices from the rest of the body?. From Wordnik.com. [Cotton is King, and Pro-Slavery Arguments Comprising the Writings of Hammond, Harper, Christy, Stringfellow, Hodge, Bledsoe, and Cartrwright on This Important Subject] Reference
His nose, and even his teeth, were small by comparison, and he had a bony protuberance below his mouth, a chin, just as she did. From Wordnik.com. [The Plains of Passage]
He had me sit in a chair and swung the gadget out from the wall so that a cone-shaped protuberance was centered over my right foot. From Wordnik.com. [The Burglar Who Studied Spinoza]
Then, by geometry, the angle FQY is equal to the angle BTF, and the protuberance FY is equal the sine of that angle, making QF radius. From Wordnik.com. [Outlines of a Mechanical Theory of Storms Containing the True Law of Lunar Influence] Reference
A single transverse wound, 2 inches in length, extended across the occipital bone, 2 inches above the level of the external protuberance. From Wordnik.com. [Surgical Experiences in South Africa, 1899-1900 Being Mainly a Clinical Study of the Nature and Effects of Injuries Produced by Bullets of Small Calibre] Reference
In the one next to the bottom was a protuberance, and from this I drew forth a casket of silver, delicately chased and inlaid with ivory. From Wordnik.com. [Tales of Destiny] Reference
He decided that the mass of trachyte forming the Puy-de-Dôme was simply granite which had been softened and pushed up as a protuberance. From Wordnik.com. [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference
Not the least extraordinary peculiarity of these addresses from the stump was the immense protuberance they exhibited of the personal pronoun. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 109, November, 1866] Reference
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