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  • Bowing in his holy, long-nosed way, the Geshe took Ashoka gently by the arm and held him there until the others had left.

    The Silence 2010

  • And then one chill afternoon, sitting buttock to buttock with Fawn Greenstreet — Bodhi — on one side of him and Karuna on the other, staring through the long-nosed ascetic face of Geshe Stephen and digging inward, shovelful by shovelful, bup-bup-bah came to him.

    The Silence 2010

  • Rolando Veloz Canales, the Mexican consul in Memphis, saw a copy of the sketch and told police he remembered a similar long-nosed young man applying for a travel permit to Mazatlán.

    Burial for a King Rebecca Burns 2011

  • And then one chill afternoon, sitting buttock to buttock with Fawn Greenstreet — Bodhi — on one side of him and Karuna on the other, staring through the long-nosed ascetic face of Geshe Stephen and digging inward, shovelful by shovelful, bup-bup-bah came to him.

    The Silence 2010

  • Copies of the FBI sketch of the suspect—young, white, dark-haired, and long-nosed— had been circulated on the Mexico-U.S. border.

    Burial for a King Rebecca Burns 2011

  • Copies of the FBI sketch of the suspect—young, white, dark-haired, and long-nosed— had been circulated on the Mexico-U.S. border.

    Burial for a King Rebecca Burns 2011

  • Copies of the FBI sketch of the suspect—young, white, dark-haired, and long-nosed— had been circulated on the Mexico-U.S. border.

    Burial for a King Rebecca Burns 2011

  • Rolando Veloz Canales, the Mexican consul in Memphis, saw a copy of the sketch and told police he remembered a similar long-nosed young man applying for a travel permit to Mazatlán.

    Burial for a King Rebecca Burns 2011

  • Rolando Veloz Canales, the Mexican consul in Memphis, saw a copy of the sketch and told police he remembered a similar long-nosed young man applying for a travel permit to Mazatlán.

    Burial for a King Rebecca Burns 2011

  • Mathilde turned her head away from her son, displaying a long-nosed silhouette and added, “she is a thief.”

    Coppet, Switzerland — April 2000 Sylvia Petter 2012

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