Protruded

"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. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Mangled limbs of men and horses protruded from the wreckage. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Only Frankie's head protruded from the yellow, five hundred pound, seven foot long mechanical "caregiver." ❋ Unknown (2010)

Taller mounds protruded from the earth in the center of the village. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Indeed it protruded from the breach like a child being born. ❋ 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. ❋ Unknown (2008)

The tip of a fly rod protruded from the thicket, arcing into the water. ❋ Unknown (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. ❋ Unknown (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. ❋ Unknown (2007)

The presser foot and needle protruded from the bottom. ❋ Unknown (2006)

At Rossamünd’s feet was the edge of a wide chalk circle drawn upon floorboards so fastidiously cleaned that the grain protruded as polished ridges. ❋ Unknown (2006)

The device was implanted in the area of Mr. Nagle’s motor cortex that is responsible for arm movement, and was connected to a pedestal that protruded from the top of his skull. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Rifle barrels protruded from the windows of passing SUVs. ❋ Unknown (2005)

They still, however, protruded from the surface of their host to play their role. ❋ Unknown (2005)

The man's head, shoulders and upper arms protruded from the ice but were still frozen, she said. ❋ Unknown (2005)

A rifle protruded from the young man's backpack, but he looked friendly enough; a hitchhiker with a Remington semiautomatic isn't the sort of thing that gives motorists pause in the forty-ninth state. ❋ Unknown (1995)

She remembered that the bones protruded from the knuckles of one old man as he clutched the bars. ❋ Unknown (1919)

Then he turned his head and stared, frowning, at the black butt where it protruded from the holster suggestively ready to his hand. ❋ Unknown (1914)