The big canopied bed, jutting out from the wall into the middle of the floor, was high and rigid and curtained also with dark draperies.
They landed on a jutting rock; Henry pushed his straw hat back, and wiped his forehead.
The girl of the golden hair and sea-blue eyes was sitting on a boulder of the headland, half-hidden by a jutting rock.
" The Four Winds light was built on a spur of red sand-stone cliff jutting out into the gulf.
Happily, the architect had foresight to build it strong: the narrow windows are deeply set in the wall, and the corners defended with large jutting stones.
Mrs Pullet took off her cap, displaying the brown silk scalp with a jutting promontory of curls which was common to the more mature and judicious women of those times, and placing the bonnet on her head, turned slowly round, like a draper's lay-figure, that Mrs Tulliver might miss no point of view.
Only the north-west corner was a little place jutting out from the great wall, a kind of excrescence or loop, no doubt used in the old distrustful days for observation, where it was possible to sit really unseen, because between it and the house was a thick clump of daphne.
In their anxiety, for the road twisted round great jutting rocks, and on their left was only the low wall to keep them out of the sea should anything happen, they too began to gesticulate, waving their hands at Beppo, pointing ahead.
Since Avonlea occupied a little triangular peninsula jutting out into the Gulf of St.
I stood at Dolphin's Nose, a spur jutting out into the 2)Bay of Bengal, to behold the breaking of the sun's upper limb over the horizon of the sea.
Instead, foreigners were ferried to privately owned resort islands where villas jutting out into the ocean are the norm.
The days when legions of CrackBerry addicts wandered through offices with their phone jutting out of a holster on their hip while complaining about 'BlackBerry Thumb' from the frenetic typing of emails, are long gone.
Cut out of jutting cliffs, these drums made of stone- On which poets and artisans, all of the first order, Had indited and chiselled-were set in the deep mountains To be washed by rain, baked by sun, burned by wildfire, Eyed by evil spirits; and protected by the gods.