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  • The universal nose is an imputation on these features allowing them all to share the name nose.

    4 Buddha-Figures 2009

  • The universal nose is an imputation on these features allowing them all to share the name nose.

    Making Sense of Tantra ��� 4 Buddha-Figures 2002

  • Dumb, and it's only drawing more attention to that Ski Jump he calls a nose.

    digg.com: Stories / Popular 2009

  • Maybe he could take some skin off that honker he calls a nose.

    Yahoo! Sports - Top News 2009

  • As a result of all of this, I have what you would call a Roamin 'nose.

    Me, Me, Me, Me, and Me 2007

  • I actually pulled my turtleneck up over my nose. is that dramatic or what?

    Scents-less kittenpie 2006

  • The stereotypical Tutsi looks like Rwanda's president, Paul Kagame: tall and thin, with a long thin nose.

    "Hotel Rwanda" Steve Sailer 2005

  • A bird at any rate has nothing which can properly be called a nose.

    On the Parts of Animals 2002

  • On the Discovery expedition Scott had noticed that Evans's nose had always been "the first thing to indicate stress of frost-biting weather," but Evans was no longer joking about his "old blossom" as he had once called his nose.

    The Greatest Survival Stories Ever Told Underwood, Lamar 2001

  • Never before had I appreciated the seductive beauty to be found in the curve of a cheek, the movement of a lip, the pinkness of an ear, the shape of that foolish organ called the nose.

    Original Short Stories — Volume 04 Guy de Maupassant 1871

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