out-jutting

• “Here and there she made detours to avoid the out-jutting talus, and at other times followed the ice in against the precipitous walls and hugged them closely around the abrupt bends.”

  CHAPTER 9

• “The Indian went on past and disappeared towards Minto behind the out-jutting clump of trees.”

  FINIS

• “A smaller cake drove against the out-jutting corner-logs and the cabin reeled.”

  CHAPTER 24

• “They landed on an out-jutting cake, which, without support, overhung the water for sheer thirty feet.”

  CHAPTER 25

• “But this he gave up as a vain task; and he sent more slides of soil down upon the scene of his labor, until no sign remained of the out-jutting walls of the vein.”

  Chapter XXVII

• “The dandy, in the stern, with a careless look upward, tried with his foot to shove over the green leaves so as to cover the out-jutting butts of several rifles, but made the matter worse by exposing them more fully.”

  CHAPTER IX

• “By the use of out-jutting stones and gaps in the masonry and a tough ivy root I got to the top in the end.”

  The Thirty-Nine Steps

• “The falsework did not rest on the ground, but was supported on the out-jutting moldings of the capitals on top of the piers.”

  The Pillars of the Earth

• “Either side of the arcade, the lower walls of the aisle had been built, with their out-jutting buttresses.”

  The Pillars of the Earth

• “He went on, around the east end and along the south side of the chancel until he came to the out-jutting south transept.”

  The Pillars of the Earth

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