The rather bulbous top end tilts forward, providing an almost perfect hand grip. From LearnThat.org. [www.yourdictionary.com]
Nearly every kind of bulbous roots, if not previously planted, may now be put in the earth. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of Sports: Containing Out-door Sports, Amusements and Recreations, Including Gymnastics, Gardening & Carpentering] Reference
The Mad Hatter is a kind of bulbous, ancient harlequin, while Alice is a doe-eyed anime princess. From Wordnik.com. [Boing Boing] Reference
The nose was flat, "bulbous," with a very rounding end, and deeply indented at root. From Wordnik.com. [The Negrito and Allied Types in the Philippines and The Ilongot or Ibilao of Luzon] Reference
The interior of the restaurant is a mixture of rustic elements such as bulbous fabric lamps, and warm Mediterranean colours. From Wordnik.com. [Budapest Times] Reference
The Throg's bulbous eyes gazed, at his moving lips. From Wordnik.com. [Storm Over Warlock] Reference
Other bulbous plants are common, and huge downy reeds. From Wordnik.com. [The Incomparable 29th and the "River Clyde"] Reference
The gills are white or yellowish and the stem is bulbous. From Wordnik.com. [Country Walks of a Naturalist with His Children] Reference
She slides down the wall to the floor, a pale, bulbous rag doll. From Wordnik.com. [Tango] Reference
The lights hung low and dim, bulbous and suspended from nowhere. From Wordnik.com. [Once There Was A Man] Reference
The young one was absolutely speechless, his bulbous eyes blinded. From Wordnik.com. [A Break in the Cloud] Reference
Here I like the new Maxima body style over the previous bulbous model. From Wordnik.com. [Personal Picks: Upscale sedans, part 2] Reference
In advanced stages, the skin thickens and the nose may become bulbous. From Wordnik.com. [Red in the face? How to tell whether it's acne or rosacea] Reference
Robert, for a moment, could see his own bulbous, pathetic reflection in it. From Wordnik.com. [Arlene] Reference
The bulbous infection lay millimeters from her nose, an inch from her forearm. From Wordnik.com. [Intolerable Impositions] Reference
To Clinton haters, the answer seems as obvious as the bulbous nose on his ruddy face. From Wordnik.com. [So Long, Music Man] Reference
A woman who seemed to have a great many teeth and rather bulbous eyes looked up at him. From Wordnik.com. [Supermind] Reference
From its egg-shaped handle protruded a metal deformity, the thin and bulbous wire quivering. From Wordnik.com. [Whiskers] Reference
But for some reason the old man came close to her and put his arms about her bulbous shoulders. From Wordnik.com. [Janice Day at Poketown] Reference
Its petals were bulbous and the color of bruised skin, as if they were full of coagulated blood. From Wordnik.com. [The Pilgrimage] Reference
On very moist soils, its root is almost always fibrous; while on dry and loamy ones it is bulbous. From Wordnik.com. [Cattle and Their Diseases Embracing Their History and Breeds, Crossing and Breeding, And Feeding and Management; With the Diseases to which They are Subject, And The Remedies Best Adapted to their Cure] Reference
Oxen, their eyes bulbous in their skulls from effort, set brute energy against yokes along with the men. From Wordnik.com. [Ride Proud, Rebel!] Reference
Prague; you may see their bulbous towers from my terrace, or your own if you get the right point of view. From Wordnik.com. [From a Terrace in Prague] Reference
Men with bulbous black turbans and curled-toe payzar shoes browse at stalls hung with skinned lamb carcasses. From Wordnik.com. [Afghan Diary: Bizarre Bazaar] Reference
Its salient feature is a bulbous base surmounted and surrounded by a collar or cup out of which the stem grows. From Wordnik.com. [The Home Medical Library, Volume V (of VI)] Reference
Now may be sown the seeds of bulbous flower roots, as tulips, crown-imperials, hyacinths, and most other bulbs. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of Sports: Containing Out-door Sports, Amusements and Recreations, Including Gymnastics, Gardening & Carpentering] Reference
This single wide brushstroke, doubled up on itself in a bulbous curve, produces the tapering form of a laurel leaf. From Wordnik.com. [Howard Hodgkin - the last English romantic painter] Reference
We had a probe out and the main buffeting was taken by the duralloy tube with its tiny converter at its bulbous tip. From Wordnik.com. [A Question of Courage] Reference
And the round head, with its bulbous eyes, turned a fraction; the mandibles about the the ugly mouth opening quivered. From Wordnik.com. [Storm Over Warlock] Reference
In the old version, the garish interior was most notable for a bulbous center console its designers dubbed "the bidet.". From Wordnik.com. [A Dash Of Style] Reference
He spun away from the table and then back, regarding his plate with the tired wonder of his teary, bulbous right eye. From Wordnik.com. [The Nielsens (part one)] Reference
One fat and surly, the other a rubbery thing — his face vague like a squid's; a bulbous nose overshadowing thin lips. From Wordnik.com. [Beached] Reference
We took some of the roots, which are bulbous, and shall try to furnish them with sufficient hardships to make them grow. From Wordnik.com. [Life at Puget Sound: With Sketches of Travel in Washington Territory, British Columbia, Oregon and California] Reference
She was of a bulbous figure, and her dark face shone with perspiration and delight as she stared at the coming bride and groom. From Wordnik.com. [Ruth Fielding on the St. Lawrence The Queer Old Man of the Thousand Islands] Reference
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