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  • noun A variant spelling of hawknose.

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Examples

  • But she gazed down once more at the pale, gaunt face, the hawk-nose and the sunken eyes.

    Lion Of Macedon Gemmell, David 1990

  • But she gazed down once more at the pale, gaunt face, the hawk-nose and the sunken eyes.

    Lion Of Macedon Gemmell, David 1990

  • He had been standing with his black brows joined above his hawk-nose, fingering the place where his dagger should have been.

    The King Must Die Renault, Mary, 1905-1983 1958

  • Here, as elsewhere, the profile of the grotesque disguise invariably shows either the Greek, or the hawk-nose strangely suggestive of

    Through the Malay Archipelago Emily Richings

  • A strange, dreamy, cruel face, with crimson laughing mouth, hawk-nose, pointed chin, and eyes of grey-blue-green: eyes in which the pupils never close and which under the shadow of the coarse black hair a-grit with sand shone like twin pools of loneliness hidden in the rocks of Time.

    The Hawk of Egypt Joan Conquest

  • She looked up, and at the same moment the hawk-nose of her aunt came round the _door-cheek_.

    Alec Forbes of Howglen George MacDonald 1864

  • With high cheek-bones, a large hawk-nose, retreating chin, fallen under-jaw, and huge protruding white eyes, the expression of his countenance, although tinged with a species of dogged indifference to matters and things in general, was not the less utterly solemn and serious beyond all attempts at imitation or description.

    Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque. In Two Volumes. Vol. I 1840

  • With high cheek-bones, a large hawk-nose, retreating chin, fallen under-jaw, and huge protruding white eyes, the expression of his countenance, although tinged with a species of dogged indifference to matters and things in general, was not the less utterly solemn and serious beyond all attempts at imitation or description.

    King Pest 1835

  • With high cheek-bones, a large hawk-nose, retreating chin, fallen under-jaw, and huge protruding white eyes, the expression of his countenance, although tinged with a species of dogged indifference to matters and things in general, was not the less utterly solemn and serious beyond all attempts at imitation or description.

    The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 3 Edgar Allan Poe 1829

  • But for this tarantula-dance the great hawk-nose would still be sitting as professor at his lecturing desk, and tickling the young goslings with philosophy and wisdom as they perkt up their yellow beaks to catch the crumbs he dropt into them.

    The Old Man of the Mountain, The Lovecharm and Pietro of Abano Tales from the German of Tieck Ludwig Tieck 1813

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