Excrescence

Let us also note that the lower pole expands into the umbilical excrescence, which is less easy of perforation than those parts protected by the skin alone. ❋ Jean-Henri Fabre (1869)

During the first year he has no horns, but a horny excrescence, which is short and rough, and covered with a thin hairy skin. ❋ Isabella Mary (1861)

Directly across Tremont Street from the corner where I stood was the entrance to the Old Burying Ground, which occupies a kind of excrescence of land off Boston Common-that is, the area is attached but not a part of the Common proper. ❋ Day, Dianne (2000)

In Sussex, the peculiar excrescence which is often found on the ❋ William Thomas Fernie (N/A)

Only in the north-west corner was a little place jutting out from the great wall, a kind of excrescence or loop, no doubt used in the old distrustful days for observation, where it was possible to sit really unseen, because between it and the house was a thick clump of daphne. ❋ Unknown (1922)

Only the north-west corner was a little place jutting out from the great wall, a kind of excrescence or loop, no doubt used in the old distrustful days for observation, where it was possible to sit really unseen, because between it and the house was a thick clump of daphne. ❋ Elizabeth Von Arnim (1903)

The egg of the bird breaks clumsily under the blows of a wart-like excrescence which is formed expressly upon the beak of the unborn bird; the egg of the Cricket, of a far superior structure, opens like an ivory casket. ❋ Jean-Henri Fabre (1869)

But the vegetable substance in which the gallic acid most abounds is _nutgall_, a kind of excrescence that grows on oaks, and from which the acid is commonly obtained for its various purposes. ❋ Unknown (1813)

She brings with her the excrescence which is found upon the forehead of a new-cast foal, of the size of a dried fig, and which unless first eaten by the mare, the mother never admits her young to the nourishment of her milk. ❋ William Godwin (1796)

Tree immediately, and to be a kind of excrescence, or a substance distinct from the substances of the entire Tree, something _analogus_ to the ❋ Robert Hooke (1669)

Everything placed as if in an experiment, the excrescence of human activity without active humans. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Sticking out the wall, a hideous copper excrescence, was the new gas pipe, vertical from waist height but then, up above my head, twisting out to disappear through the ceiling at the point where the cornices met. ❋ Unknown (2009)

So disproportionate was it to the slender ring of the atoll that it showed out upon the sand-strip and above it like some monstrous excrescence. ❋ Unknown (2010)

I wondered whether a deck of fifty-two playing cards was truly an excrescence of evil. ❋ Andrew Himes (2011)

Think about it, though: 90% of Twitter isn't interesting, anyway; it's mostly just the one-liner pablum of human excrescence. ❋ Typsie (2009)

As Barzun suggests, “race” is merely the excrescence of human perception. ❋ Unknown (2010)

On the other hand, that black and blue shiny cake is a nightmarish excrescence of sugar. ❋ Unknown (2010)