protruberance

From her shoulder-blades extended broad wings of a glittering, semi-transparent, membraneous material, and these beautiful wings she folded as her feet touched the ground -- apparently without volition just as a bird folds its pinions when it alights, but really by touching a small protruberance set in a belt of white leather that crossed her full bosom.

Archive 2010-04-01 Johnny Pez 2010

From her shoulder-blades extended broad wings of a glittering, semi-transparent, membraneous material, and these beautiful wings she folded as her feet touched the ground -- apparently without volition just as a bird folds its pinions when it alights, but really by touching a small protruberance set in a belt of white leather that crossed her full bosom.

"The Moon Woman" by Minna Irving, part 3 Johnny Pez 2010

I´m a big fat ugly protruberance unworthy of a second look but occasionally amusing if challenged .. jennifer rose

AM I CUTE? 2006

I'm assuming the Statue of Liberty is the tiny protruberance on the distant left*.

Sunset with statue. Ann Althouse 2008

Who knew men thought a pregnancy-like protruberance was manly?

Archive 2006-03-01 Ann Althouse 2006

That little protruberance coming from the back of the truck.

outfoxed Diary Entry outfoxed 2002

(The posterior thorax = the back between the neck and the abdomen; scapula = shoulder blade; acromion process = the protruberance at the top of the shoulder joint; mastoid process = the protruberance of the skull immediately behind the ear lobe; 14 centimeters — about 5 1/2 inches.)

The Second Oswald Crawford, Curtis 1966

_Bombast_ was a kind of loose texture not unlike what is now called wadding, used to give the dresses of that time bulk and protruberance, without much increase of weight; whence the same name is given a tumour of words unsupported by solid sentiment.

Notes to Shakespeare — Volume 01: Comedies Samuel Johnson 1746

On two afternoons a week the tall, grave doctor would lecture in the ward to a party of students, and on more than one occasion old Numéro 57 was wheeled in on a sort of trolley into the middle of the ward, where the doctor would roll back his nightshirt, dilate with his fingers a huge flabby protruberance on the man’s bellythe diseased liver, I supposeand explain solemnly that this was a disease attributable to alcoholism, commoner in the wine-drinking countries.

How the Poor Die 1946