He was not a handsome man, having a protrusive nose, high cheek-bones, and long upper lip; but there was a manliness about his face which redeemed it. From Wordnik.com. [The Duke's Children] Reference
Nature is 'sheep's wool on barbed wire,' equipment such as a harrow pin, sledge-head, or trowel, as if its center were protrusive objects and not recessive vistas. From Wordnik.com. [Heaney Agonistes] Reference
Disposition of the Air is such, as that these Clouds cannot rise therein, either from their own Weight, the want of a protrusive Force, or from the falling of the Wind, which in cloudy Weather is always a. From Wordnik.com. [The Shepherd of Banbury's Rules to Judge of the Changes of the Weather, Grounded on Forty Years' Experience] Reference
On the mantelpiece stood some stoneware representations of maids and swains, who combined a pastoral occupation with the gratification of a musical talent; while they gazed with a languishing air on their protrusive neighbour, a portly individual with. From Wordnik.com. [Fern Vale (Volume 1) or the Queensland Squatter] Reference
The nose was unduly protrusive, while the chin and the forehead retreated. From Wordnik.com. [Patriarchal Palestine] Reference
If they are not mere lumps, their ornament is hideously heavy and protrusive. From Wordnik.com. [American Sketches 1908] Reference
But the evolution of a free hand made it possible to dispense with protrusive lips and gripping teeth. From Wordnik.com. [The Outline of Science, Vol. 1 (of 4) A Plain Story Simply Told] Reference
This lamellipodial extension provides the driving force for the protrusive activity required for cell migration. From Wordnik.com. [PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles] Reference
Buttons: The EVO has 4 flat buttons along the front - home, menu, back, and search - no trackball, nothing protrusive. From Wordnik.com. [Original Signal - Transmitting Gadgets] Reference
A true English heart breathes, calm and strong, through the whole business; not boisterous, protrusive; all the better for that. From Wordnik.com. [Sartor Resartus, and On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History] Reference
Notice in the gorilla's skull the protrusive face region, the big eyebrow ridges, the much less domed cranial cavity, the massive lower jaw, the big canine teeth. From Wordnik.com. [The Outline of Science, Vol. 1 (of 4) A Plain Story Simply Told] Reference
Davidson L, Keller R (1999) Neural tube closure in Xenopus laevis involves medial migration, directed protrusive activity, cell intercalation, and convergent extension. From Wordnik.com. [PLoS Biology: New Articles] Reference
We report a novel cellular protrusive structure, the fungipod, which participates in the host-microbe interaction between human immature dendritic cells (DC) and yeasts. From Wordnik.com. [ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science] Reference
Cocker's who were quite nice and who yet didn't look well; whereas Mrs. Jordan looked well and yet, with her extraordinarily protrusive teeth, was by no means quite nice. From Wordnik.com. [In the Cage] Reference
We report that DLC-1 activation profoundly alters cell morphology, enhances protrusive activity, and can increase the velocity but reduce directionality of cell migration. From Wordnik.com. [Journal of Biological Chemistry current issue] Reference
Grenadier clutches him; clutches the protrusive dudgeon, whisks it out in the face of the world: by Heaven, a very dagger; hunting-knife, or whatsoever you call it; fit to drink the life of Patriotism!. From Wordnik.com. [The French Revolution] Reference
I invest her in this vision with all the idol-quality that may accrue to the venerable -- solidly seated or even throned, hooded and draped and tucked-in, with big protective protrusive ears to her chair which helped it to the effect of. From Wordnik.com. [A Small Boy and Others] Reference
Mr. Neefit was a stout little man, with a bald head and somewhat protrusive eyes, whose manners to his customers contained a combination of dictatorial assurance and subservience, which he had found to be efficacious in his peculiar business. From Wordnik.com. [Ralph the Heir] Reference
She, too, had a slightly protrusive stomach over which she had the habit of folding her hard-working hands restfully, when she talked ... and also there came with her my Great-uncle Joshua, her husband ... and my second cousins, Paul and Phoebe, their children. From Wordnik.com. [Tramping on Life An Autobiographical Narrative] Reference
The impression made on him by this contrivance showed him as unsophisticated, yet when his companion, at the top, ushering him in, gave a touch to the quick light and, in the pleasant ruddy room, all convenience and character, had before the fire another look at him, it was not to catch in him any protrusive angle. From Wordnik.com. [The Awkward Age] Reference
Ethnic peculiarities are everywhere protrusive; they refuse to be obliterated. ". From Wordnik.com. ["The Negro's Place in History"] Reference
A bigger and more upright forehead, a less protrusive face region, smaller cheek-bones and eyebrow ridges, and more uniform teeth. From Wordnik.com. [The Outline of Science, Vol. 1 (of 4) A Plain Story Simply Told] Reference
I know I should be ready to see thicker hips, thighs, and a more protrusive belly; it’s no more than what practically every other woman in my family has gone through as she’s aged. From Wordnik.com. [what’s between an old lady’s tits? « Love | Peace | Ohana] Reference
Clear blue, intelligent eyes, eyebrows that he arches amazingly, large, protrusive, rather loose mouth, a face of most extreme mobility, which he shuttles about ” eyebrows, eyes, mouth and all ” in a very singular manner when speaking. From Wordnik.com. [What I Remember]
Clear, blue, intelligent eyes, eyebrows that he arches amazingly, large protrusive rather loose mouth, a face of most extreme mobility, which he shuttles about ” eyebrows, eyes, mouth and all ” in a very singular manner while speaking. From Wordnik.com. [Life of Charles Dickens]
Likewise did they scream with protrusive energy. From Wordnik.com. [Temporal Power] Reference
A lustreless protrusive eye. From Wordnik.com. [Burbank with a Baedeker: Bleistein with a Cigar] Reference
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