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  • The mouth and the heart-shaped face were solemn, but the nose tiptilted and faintly dusted with freckles.

    do you ever read writing? Peter DeWolf 2010

  • At a front desk a sleek young interne, tiptilted in a swivel chair, read a pink sheet through horn-rimmed glasses.

    The Best Short Stories of 1915 And the Yearbook of the American Short Story Various 1915

  • Not by any means a beauty, her pretty face and tiptilted nose, her perennial cheerfulness, birdlike vivacity and gift of repartee had made her the center of attraction for years.

    Who Cares? a story of adolescence Cosmo Hamilton 1910

  • The beauties of society and the stage have a leaning to noses tiptilted like the petals of a flower, or to a nose which is a kind of modification of the Greek, frequently found among

    Ringfield A Novel 1897

  • She hurried away then to the kitchen, and Mr. Smith was left alone to fume up and down the room and frown savagely at the offending envelope tiptilted against the ink bottle in Miss Maggie's desk, just as Miss

    Oh, Money! Money! 1894

  • He remembered how his blood boiled one afternoon when he found a bulky fellow, his hat on the back of his head, his legs outstretched, and a vile cigar tiptilted in his mouth, sitting leering beside her desk.

    A Tame Surrender, A Story of The Chicago Strike Charles King 1888

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