6659 examples of nose in sentences

When we parted with Jacob there was no thought in my mind that Sergeant Corney had the slightest idea of joining in what was a most desperate venture, and I even fancied he felt a certain sense of relief in having such a good excuse for not sticking his nose into the Indian encampment.

These Australians have a keen nose for country and you have a sense of security in following them.

But the chances of war were unfavourable this time, and the little baker whopped Georgie, who came home with a rueful black eye and all his fine shirt frill dabbled with the claret drawn from his own little nose.

He knew Bryan from Hobson at oncethat unlucky little accident in the go-cart having left its mark forever on the nose of Sir Bryan Newcome.

While his tutor was lecturing him, did he not draw Grindley instinctively under his very nose?

Now Pen would as soon have cut off his nose and ears as deliberately and of malice aforethought have made his mother unhappy; and as he was of such a generous disposition that he would give away anything to any one, he instantly made a present of his visionary red coat and epaulettes to his mother.

Then it drooped down, presently, and its little velvet nose rested upon the floor, and it was still, and did not move any more.

A few grog-blossoms marked the neighborhood of his nose.

His hair was thin and very white, his eyes very blue, his nose too broad and too flat; yet he was a handsome man.

A man's eyes, ears, tongue, nose, legs and arms are but so many organs and tools that minister to the protection, education, increased intelligence and multiplication of the spermatozoa, so that our whole life is in reality a series of complex efforts in respect of these, conscious or unconscious according to their comparative commonness.

Jack Hood had shaken his fist under the nose of the seated giant.

Broad, benignant brows surmounted a pair of keen and kindly eyes; his nose proclaimed a sense of humour; his mouth and chin were concealed by a beard almost apostolic in its silky beauty.

Her face was scarlet; her pale eyes snapped; the nostrils of her thin nose were dilated.

who assumed the God, when the God was elsewhere, who owned a palace on Nob Hill, and some of the worst, and therefore the most paying, rookeries in Chinatown, who never refused to give a cheque for charitable purposes when it was demanded in a becomingly public manner, who, like the Autocrat, had endowed Christian Churches, and had successfully eliminated out of his life everything which smacked of the Ghetto, except his nose.

"Yes." He stared at the portrait of Sam, the Custos of the School, the familiar of the Yard, of the Fourth Room Form, Sam, the provider of birches, Sam of the port wine nose.

He had a nose like a garden hose, but my little bug has unwittingly told me that he is the one to whom the forest beasts turn when they have problems.

But he had a nose to beat all noses!

Indeed, he must have had the largest nose that Ozma had ever seen.

"Then I suggest that you hold your nose," replied Schnozzle.

She tried holding her nose and breathing with her mouth, but that was hardly a dignified pose for the Queen of all Oz.

When the stench became absolutely unbearable, she found herself face to face with a little boy who sported the tiniest nose she could have imagined.

" "I thought your nose was too small to make you a Sniffer," he said.

The child Monona was seated upon a book and a cushion, so that her little triangle of nose rose adultly above her plate.

However, we entered into the presence of Zagathai with fear and bashfulness; he was sitting on a bed, having a small citern or lute in his hand, and his wife sat beside him, who, I really believe, had amputated her nose, between the eyes, that it might be the flatter, for she had no nose in that part of her face, which was smeared over with black ointment, as were also her eyebrows, which seemed very filthy in our eyes.

However, we entered into the presence of Zagathai with fear and bashfulness; he was sitting on a bed, having a small citern or lute in his hand, and his wife sat beside him, who, I really believe, had amputated her nose, between the eyes, that it might be the flatter, for she had no nose in that part of her face, which was smeared over with black ointment, as were also her eyebrows, which seemed very filthy in our eyes.

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