The elephant was really so emaciated that his spine Protruded, his sides were shrunken, his ribs were distinctly outlined notwithstanding the thickness of his hide, and it was easy to conjecture that he did not rise because he did not now have sufficient strength.
"In Desert and Wilderness"
Henryk Sienkiewicz
There was a pause and then the door slowly opened and a woman's head Protruded.
"Fortitude"
Hugh Walpole
The fourth whist player, who was the lady's partner, was a man about forty years old, a faded blonde, with a conceited and idiotic air; a doll's face, from which Protruded a pair of great eyes which were always rolling from side to side with an astonished expression-an expression which never varied.
"Monsieur Cherami"
Charles Paul de Kock