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Taller mounds protruded from the earth in the center of the village.

The Size of Things « A Fly in Amber 2009

"All ready?" the captain asked the engineer, a Portuguese half-caste, whose head and shoulders protruded from the small hatch just for'ard of the cabin, and who wiped the sweat from his face with a bunch of greasy waste.

THE PEARLS OF PARLAY 2010

Only Frankie's head protruded from the yellow, five hundred pound, seven foot long mechanical "caregiver."

Polio 2010

Mangled limbs of men and horses protruded from the wreckage.

The Wall « A Fly in Amber 2009

Indeed it protruded from the breach like a child being born.

Story Update Rambling On amberfocus 2008

I gazed up at the empty platforms and balconies that protruded from the towers at regular intervals like an arrangement leaves along a stem.

Watchman: Babel Series Part One | SciFi UK Review 2008

The tip of a fly rod protruded from the thicket, arcing into the water.

Whitewater, Survival, and the Best Salmon Fishing in Alaska 2007

It was while burdened with my usual load of literary LA baggage that I tripped over a particularly bold pronouncement that protruded from a Time Magazine article this week.

September 2007 2007

I had stopped to listen, propped against a tree for only a few minutes, when a Kokako appeared walking along a log which protruded from a thick patch of fern beside a patch of "ploughed" ground.

Archive 2007-01-01 2007

It was while burdened with my usual load of literary LA baggage that I tripped over a particularly bold pronouncement that protruded from a Time Magazine article this week.

Save Buk's Home 2007