Noses

Examples

• I'm being scorched in the legs, which indeed is testified to the noses of all present by the smell of his worsted stockings. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• When they came out through the French window, there was the pond with one tempting little hole in the ice, right in front of their noses. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• In which compensating adjustment of their noses, they were pretty much like Treasury, Bar, and Bishop, and all the rest of them. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• On their backs were oval shields, in their noses huge rings, while from the kinky wool of their heads protruded tufts of gay feathers. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• Their noses were but longitudinal slits in the center of their faces, midway between their mouths and ears. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
• The Portsmouth girls turn up their noses at anybody who has not a commission. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• Most of the native peoples of Africa south of the Sahara, but not all, have black or blackish skins, flat noses, thick lips, and frizzy hair. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Their noses are all hooked, and hooked alike. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• I always wondered where the noses would go. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• I feel to know the strong-minded lady who goes so bravely under many horse noses, and so fast through much mud. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• Why have they all got fat noses and hard cheeks? Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• Where do the noses go? Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• We shall have the smell of the snow in our noses. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• How is it that events transpire, under your very noses, of which you have no suspicion? Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• The ground was frozen, and it froze our backs while we slept; the wind swept across our faces and froze our noses. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• There are all sorts of noses, snub and otherwise-' Gerald laughed. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• He had not been there with me; all the noses were straight in my day. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• So utterly dark was it that we could not see our hands at an inch from our noses. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• I think the Romans must have aggravated one another very much, with their noses. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• The Vatican and the Patent Office are governmental noses, and they bear a deal of character about them. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.

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