"Stick out" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... 'm," replied Grace; "they made your eyes stick out so! Why, you looked like a frog, ma', ...
— Dotty Dimple's Flyaway • Sophie May
... really pretty, you know. I've always thought that all niggers had ugly flat noses an' thick blubber lips. But look at that one: her lips are scarce a bit thicker than those of many a good-looking lass in England, and they don't stick out at all, and her nose ain't flat a bit. It's quite as good as my Nancy's nose, an' that's sayin' a good deal, I tell 'ee. ...
— Black Ivory • R.M. Ballantyne
... but it's not the very latest fashion, because it doesn't stick out far enough at the back, and it doesn't cover ...
— Winding Paths • Gertrude Page
... additional turn in the garden, which she would utilise to remove surreptitiously, as she passed, the stakes of a rose-tree or two, so as to make the roses look a little more natural, as a mother might run her hand through her boy's hair, after the barber had smoothed it down, to make it stick out properly round his head. ...
— Swann's Way - (vol. 1 of Remembrance of Things Past) • Marcel Proust
... this," the dancer said, "Stick out your toes—stick in your head. Stalk on with quick, galvanic tread— Your fingers thus extend; The attitude's considered quaint," The weary Bishop, feeling faint, Replied, "I do not say it ain't, But 'Time!' ...
— Bab Ballads and Savoy Songs • W. S. Gilbert
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