1 Some precautions had been taken to place those entrances under the protection of projecting angles, by which they might be flanked in case of need by archers or slingers.
2 It was a giant dog, as large as a calf, tawny tinted, with hanging jowl, black muzzle, and huge projecting bones.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In XII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE COPPER BEECHES 3 From amid a tuft of cotton grass which bore it up out of the slime some dark thing was projecting.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In Chapter 14. The Hound of the Baskervilles 4 At one side of this was a squat, brass-bound wooden box, the lid of which was hinged upwards, with this curious old-fashioned key projecting from the lock.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In VI. The Adventure of The Musgrave Ritual 5 He was an elderly man, with a thin, projecting nose, a high, bald forehead, and a huge grizzled moustache.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In I. THE ADVENTURE OF THE EMPTY HOUSE 6 On the other side of the bushes a shoe was projecting.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In V. THE ADVENTURE OF THE PRIORY SCHOOL 7 He was leaning far back in the red leather chair, his legs outstretched, a long, black cigar projecting at an angle from his mouth.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In VII. THE ADVENTURE OF CHARLES AUGUSTUS MILVERTON 8 He had resumed his seat, the cigar still projecting at an insolent angle from the corner of his mouth.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In VII. THE ADVENTURE OF CHARLES AUGUSTUS MILVERTON 9 Then I felt sideways for the projecting hooks, and, as I did so, my feet were grasped from behind, and I was violently tugged backward.
10 The sled swerved in response, but he righted it again, kept it straight, and drove down on the black projecting mass.
11 When she emerged on the pavement, the day was still high, but a threat of rain darkened the sky and cold gusts shook the signs projecting from the basement shops along the street.
12 Its panelled front was in the likeness of a ship's bluff bows, and the Holy Bible rested on a projecting piece of scroll work, fashioned after a ship's fiddle-headed beak.
13 It had the same long regularly graded retreating slope from above the brows, which were likewise very projecting, like two long promontories thickly wooded on top.
14 Even if not the slightest other part of the creature be visible, this isolated fin will, at times, be seen plainly projecting from the surface.
15 He saw the vast, involved wrinkles of the slightly projecting head beyond.
Moby Dick By Herman MelvilleContext Highlight In CHAPTER 133. The Chase—First Day.