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Examples
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In her features, in her fisted hands and thrust-out neck.
Veracity LAURA BYNUM 2010
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I caught a glimpse of the thrust-out combative face and the hot grey eyes.
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Behind him there followed, in grey military fatigues, a specimen of concentrated manhood potent enough to wither every thrust-out jaw in the room.
A Big Boy Did It and Ran Away Brookmyre, Christopher, 1968- 2001
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From Keely's stiff shoulders and thrust-out chin, he could tell she was still fuming over the way Maya had upset everyone.
Undercover Vows Lind, Judi 1996
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Would I be thrust-out into the streets of Koonga again?
The Zero Stone Norton, Andre 1968
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And this baby noted the laughter, and resented it with a thrust-out lip and a frowning knit of his level brows that was funnier than even his blue clothing -- and after that one Parthian glance at the audience, he invariably toddled to me, and hid his face in my dress.
Stage Confidences Clara Morris
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But there was a square, determined thrust-out of his weak chin which boded ill for Jim Cotton's classics and mathematics in the future.
Acton's Feud A Public School Story Frederick Swainson
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Ah, how Lansing knew every movement of that familiar rite, even to the pucker of the brow and the pouting thrust-out of the lower lip!
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I caught a glimpse of the thrust-out combative face and the hot grey eyes.
Oscar Wilde Harris, Frank 1916
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I caught a glimpse of the thrust-out combative face and the hot grey eyes.
Oscar Wilde His Life and Confessions Harris, Frank 1910
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