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  • Shortly after veteran action director Don Siegel scored a direct hit with "Dirty Harry," he made this unjustly overlooked crime drama starring a gawky, beak-nosed Matthau, in the role of an exceedingly wily protagonist.

    John Farr: Missing Mr. Matthau John Farr 2010

  • Shortly after veteran action director Don Siegel scored a direct hit with "Dirty Harry," he made this unjustly overlooked crime drama starring a gawky, beak-nosed Matthau, in the role of an exceedingly wily protagonist.

    John Farr: Missing Mr. Matthau John Farr 2010

  • This grandmother was Sarah—“Aunt Sally”—a stern, tall, Dutch-African woman, beak-nosed, but beautiful-eyed and golden-skinned.

    DARKWATER W.E.B. DU BOIS 2004

  • Opposite him, on Ignatieff's right, was a tall, bald, beak-nosed civilian, with his chin resting on his folded hands.

    The Sky Writer Geoff Barbanell 2010

  • By the time we were presented at Balmoral, though, the next day, she was high up the scale again, and the fact that we shared the waiting-room beforehand with some lord or other and his beak-nosed lady, who looked at us as though we were riff-raff, reduced my poor little scatterbrain to quaking terror.

    Fiancée 2010

  • She stared at me wildly, lips trembling, but before she could speak, a tall beak-nosed female, with the beauty in tow, was bearing down on us, crying apologies for the delay, and would Mrs Comber kindly step this way?

    THE NUMBERS 2010

  • Catulus turned with delight to the benches behind him and I caught a glimpse of his grinning profile, sharp and beak-nosed, like a head on a coin.

    Imperium Robert Harris 2006

  • Catulus turned with delight to the benches behind him and I caught a glimpse of his grinning profile, sharp and beak-nosed, like a head on a coin.

    Imperium Robert Harris 2006

  • Flanking Bruner were two young women with tight-lipped attitudes, a beak-nosed blonde and frizzy-haired redhead.

    The Shattered Blue Line Patrick A. Davis 2005

  • Flanking Bruner were two young women with tight-lipped attitudes, a beak-nosed blonde and frizzy-haired redhead.

    The Shattered Blue Line Patrick A. Davis 2005

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