corvine

• Personally, like the non-corvine personages in the Ingoldsby legend, I did not feel “one penny the worse.” Translated into several languages the book reached a wider public than I had ever hoped for; being largely helped, I imagine, by the Ernulphine advertisements to which I referred. —  Thomas Henry Huxley
• Personally, like the non-corvine personages in the Ingoldsby legend, I did not feel "one penny the worse." —  Thomas Henry Huxley A Character Sketch
• I recall an inconspicuous figure, of ordinary stature, and a face whose marked feature was the large nose (Emerson called it "corvine"), but that, as some one has said, is the hook which nature makes salient in the case of men whom fortune is to drag forward into leadership. —  The Last Leaf Observations, during Seventy-Five Years, of Men and Events in America and Europe
• And while this corvine Clatter still endured —  The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam Jr.
• Far up a hillside of poplar, a horde of crows were clamoring over some corvine scandal, perhaps. —  When Life Was Young At the Old Farm in Maine

Allen's Synonyms and Antonyms