The Only Use of
appendage
in
The Kite Runner
- We took turns with the mirror as we ate mulberries, pelted each other with them, giggling, laughing; I can still see Hassan up on that tree, sunlight flickering through the leaves on his almost perfectly round face, a face like a Chinese doll chiseled from hardwood: his flat, broad nose and slanting, narrow eyes like bamboo leaves, eyes that looked, depending on the light, gold, green, even sapphire I can still see his tiny low—set ears and that pointed stub of a chin, a meaty appendage that looked like it was added as a mere afterthought.†
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Definition:
an external body part (such as an arm) that projects from the body; or any part that is joined to something larger