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  • In a field of storm-tossed debris, she sat on an overturned bucket dragging on a cigarette—acknowledging our presence not at all until I peered reluctantly at her hard, small-nosed, glinting face.

    Perquampi Andrew Edwards 2011

  • What can I say about my well-bred, small-nosed, trust-funded schoolmates?

    Middlesex Eugenides, Jeffery 2002

  • _ Among the animals of the mid-Pleistocene period that have since become extinct were the Irish deer; the big-nosed, the small-nosed, and the woolly rhinoceros; the mammoth; the cave-bear; and

    The Tree-Dwellers Katharine Elizabeth Dopp

  • The small-nosed rhinoceros liked the warm country, too.

    The Tree-Dwellers Katharine Elizabeth Dopp

  • _ The big-nosed and the small-nosed rhinoceros came to western Europe from the south.

    The Tree-Dwellers Katharine Elizabeth Dopp

  • We see therefore that in this remote age Britain enjoyed a climate which encouraged the existence of animals now to be found only in tropical regions, that herds of mammoths or straight-tusked elephants smashed their way through primæval forests and that the hippopotamus and the woolly or small-nosed rhinoceros frequented the moist country at the margin of the lake.

    The Evolution of an English Town Gordon Home 1923

  • There is some explanation for the belief that Schubert did not dare to love or declare his love, and some reason to believe that his reticence was wise and may have saved him worse pangs, in the fact that he was only one inch more than five feet high, and yet fat and awkward; stoop-shouldered, wild-haired, small-nosed, big-spectacled, thick-lipped, and of a complexion which has been called pasty to the point of tallowness.

    The Love Affairs of Great Musicians, Volume 2 Rupert Hughes 1914

  • Mongolian admixture with Ural-Altaic broad heads, the Hittite pigtailed warriors must not be confused with the true small-nosed

    Myths of Babylonia and Assyria Donald Alexander Mackenzie 1904

  • There is some explanation for the belief that Schubert did not dare to love or declare his love, and some reason to believe that his reticence was wise and may have saved him worse pangs, in the fact that he was only one inch more than five feet high, and yet fat and awkward; stoop-shouldered, wild-haired, small-nosed, big-spectacled, thick-lipped, and of a complexion which has been called pasty to the point of tallowness.

    The Love Affairs of Great Musicians Hughes, Rupert, 1872-1956 1903

  • See that straight-necked, small-nosed mare stepping delicately on the turnpike: why, it is Languor in person, picking its way among eggs.

    Love Me Little, Love Me Long Charles Reade 1849

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