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  • It was one of your strong hill figureheads, lean and long jawed, but straight-nosed for once - he'd said he was a Tajik, which meant he was half-Persian.

    The Sky Writer Geoff Barbanell 2010

  • A strong, bright profile, straight-nosed and well chinned, a young man of birth, and well aware of his value.

    A River So Long 2010

  • Aged twenty-eight in 1942, Florian was indeed an exceptionally good-looking young man: slender, dark-eyed and straight-nosed, he had a wide, well-shaped mouth, high cheekbones and thick, curling black hair.

    Chaplin’s Girl Miranda Seymour 2009

  • So I find it impossible to focus on Alex's admittedly exceptional straight-nosed, artfully-tousle-haired, aftershave-ad looks.

    The Apprentice, and other demons... juliette 2008

  • So I find it impossible to focus on Alex's admittedly exceptional straight-nosed, artfully-tousle-haired, aftershave-ad looks.

    Archive 2008-03-01 juliette 2008

  • Perhaps it was even Antenor who owned a bronze figurine of a man standing in a gesture of prayer: a wide-eyed, straight-nosed piece, apparently of Hittite workmanship.

    The Trojan War Barry Strauss 2006

  • Perhaps it was even Antenor who owned a bronze figurine of a man standing in a gesture of prayer: a wide-eyed, straight-nosed piece, apparently of Hittite workmanship.

    The Trojan War Barry Strauss 2006

  • There was one of these fellows, a straight-nosed ebony-faced

    Notes of a Journey From Cornhill to Grand Cairo 2004

  • Most importantly, and contrary to the Passion Plays from which Mel draws inspiration, the pale, thin-lipped, straight-nosed, blue-eyed, hairless Satan is Not Remotely Jewish.

    Kenneth Hite's Journal princeofcairo 2004

  • He was a straight-nosed, very correct-featured little dandy.

    Villette 2003

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