outthrust


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an outcropping of rock that extends outward

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Sheng Ma and Chai Hu upbear and lift clear yang as well as outthrust and scatter depressive heat.
A traveling friar, Josef de Acosta, wrote a mouth-watering description of the ore visible on the "mountain of silver" in those days: "The metal was an outthrust in the form of crags ...
The carts will descend through the tunnel onto the field to be docked next to one another to form the Rolling Stones' famous outthrust tongue.
With outthrust calves and pointed toes, contemporary monarchs in Britain, Austria, Saxony, and elsewhere flaunted scarlet heels in coronation portraits.
Phrases from this collection will echo in my mind all my life: the Shakespearean "bright obstinacy," a touch of Donne in "outthrust lust." The magnificent poems about the poet's aging mother are a revelation of what it means to be old and to love someone who is old: "All that we had to say is long since said....
Spenser appears ("an enchanted hedge / outthrust of swords"), as do Vaughan, Marvell ("the sound of Mower himself / all afternoon surround"), Keats, and Yeats.
Petrouchka takes some tentative steps with arms outthrust, then revs up to excited prancing steps that propel him toward the Blackamoor.
The Sickle also marks the Lion's head, mane, and proudly outthrust chest.
Paul Hair in an interpretative essay at the outset splits expansion (which he calls 'outthrust' presumably because it has a softer ring) and encounter into four components.
By creating conflicts between paint on canvas and pigment on skin in these works, Locke defiantly navigates the boundaries between portraiture, decoration, and polemic with a rudely outthrust tongue.
There is General Sherman riding high on his horse, sword outthrust, led by victory, the trees of Central Park providing a soft texture behind.