If this were a hint, it failed of its aim, for, as the hermit scuttled out from his shelter, looking not unlike some bulky protrusive-eyed insect, secured the orchids, and returned, he never once glanced up.
"The Unspeakable Perk"
Samuel Hopkins Adams
Mr. Geoffrey Dawling, the person thus introduced to me, stumbled into my room with awkward movements and equivocal sounds-a long, lean, confused, confusing young man, with a bad complexion and large, protrusive teeth.
"Embarrassments"
Henry James
He was not a handsome man, having a protrusive nose, high cheek-bones, and long upper lip; but there was a manliness about his face which redeemed it.
"The Duke's Children"
Anthony Trollope