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  • Jetanien lifted his bowl to his beak-shaped jaw, tucked part of it inside his mouth, and savored a loud, guttural slurp.

    Harbinger DAVID MACK 2005

  • Jetanien lifted his bowl to his beak-shaped jaw, tucked part of it inside his mouth, and savored a loud, guttural slurp.

    Harbinger DAVID MACK 2005

  • Damascus; but in Nejed and the eastern districts they are of a different and much more ornamental fashioning, very tall and slender, with several ornamental circles and mouldings in elegant relief, besides boasting long beak-shaped spouts and high steeples for covers.

    All About Coffee 1909

  • In Japanese popular art, the Tengu are commonly represented either as winged men with beak-shaped noses, or as birds of prey.

    In Ghostly Japan Lafcadio Hearn 1877

  • His peculiar nose -- the most marked characteristic of his race, long and beak-shaped, yet not exactly aquiline -- marked the Jew.

    The Rival Heirs; being the Third and Last Chronicle of Aescendune 1863

  • From the beak-shaped apex the range begins to decline and fall; there is little to notice in the fourth horn, whose unimportant items, the Ras Lahyánah, the Jebel Maí'h, and the Umm Gisr (Jisr), end the wall.

    The Land of Midian — Volume 2 Richard Francis Burton 1855

  • I'm sure the cat's owners were wondering where all these beak-shaped puncture wounds came from ...

    Original Signal - Transmitting Buzz 2009

  • This type develops into type IV b, with globular body and beak-shaped neck, while type IV c, with two necks and incised orna - mentation, is a further stage in the development of this type.

    Archaeologia, or, Miscellaneous tracts relating to antiquity [microform] 1770

  • Composite vase (pi. xxxi, d): three globular juglets supporting a fourth, larger with beak-shaped spout.

    Archaeologia, or, Miscellaneous tracts relating to antiquity [microform] 1770

  • From the beak-shaped apex the range begins to decline and fall; there is little to notice in the fourth horn, whose unimportant items, the Ras Lahyánah, the Jebel Maí‘h, and the

    The Land of Midian 2003

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