6659 examples of noses in sentences

But duty is dutyoften stern, but never to be shirked; and so the faithful detectives inserted their Spitz-dog noses between the joints of the artists' doors, and, having smelt a very large rat, suddenly burst in upon these graphic malefactors, and caught them in the act, with all the tools and paraphernalia of their nefarious occupation scattered about their vile den.

The Spitz-dog noses, instead of smelling Rat, would have smelt its anagram, Art.

" Their own had already thrown up their noses and bettered the pace.

Up this we wormed our way, as flat as snakes, with our noses in the dusty earth.

He liked itthe softness of their sensitive skins, which were like velvet, and putting up his hands he began to stroke their noses.

Going upon the slippery stones, beside which lay a few idle and rickety boats, I found the expected range of windows with "red curtains matching the noses of the regular customers."

They'll get to sighing so that you couldn't stop them with a fire engine; the women will all turn up their noses from jealousy. PODKHALYÚZIN.

Their very noses serrulated and shook in brute passion, and they snarled as the wolves snarl, with all the hatred and malignity of the breed impelling them to spring upon the woman and drag her down.

Buffaloes are to be met with on the lake with no more than their noses and eyes out of the water, and are not visible until they are approached within a few feet, when they cause alarm to the passengers by raising their large forms close to the boat.

Let me put the case in another way: It is as though we who are at the front, or close to it, stand before a mighty painting, but with our noses almost touching the canvas.

As I recall now we had come through the gate of the schoolhouse to where the automobiles stood when a puff of wind, blowing to us from the left, which meant from across the battlefront, brought to our noses a certain smell which we already knew full well.

It is an ordinary thing for women in such cases to scratch the faces, slit the noses of such as they suspect; as Henry the Second's importune Juno did by Rosamond at Woodstock; for she complains in a modern poet, she scarce spake, "But flies with eager fury to my face, Offering me most unwomanly disgrace.

Their holy days and adorations were all out as ridiculous; those Lupercals of Pan, Florales of Flora, Bona dea, Anna Perenna, Saturnals, &c., as how they were celebrated, with what lascivious and wanton gestures, bald ceremonies, by what bawdy priests, how they hang their noses over the smoke of sacrifices, saith Lucian, and lick blood like flies that was spilled about the altars.

1. adversus haereses, gives two more eminent notes or probable conjectures to know such men by, (they might have taken themselves by the noses when they said it)

"Out in the kitchen, upstairs, or right here under our noses is almost certainly the person who could tell us.

They have long, but not prominent noses, like the Jews; small, oblong eyes, narrow lips, and fair complexions, most of them having brown hair.

Most people in Little Rivers accept them as they do the noses on their faces.

On the feet they carry bells, so that they are heard at a distance of sixty paces; the toes are covered with broad heavy rings, and they have rings hanging from their noses down to the chin, which they are obliged to tie up at meal time.

The adult women tattoo their breasts, foreheads, noses, or temples with red, white, or yellow colours, according as they are particularly attached to one or the other deity.

The broad lamp-shades concentrated the light on the tangled heads of the boys, who were working at their lessons or sitting in a brown study with their noses on the desks.

At once the dogs began to bark and howl, the fierce giddes lifting their pointed noses to the sky.

Some had feathers thrust through their noses, and their heads decorated with the same.

He accordingly attacked the main body and drove it back to Trebinje with a loss of 250 men (counted by the noses brought in).

We sneered at their rugs; we laughed at their embroideries; we turned up our noses at their jewelled weapons; we drank their coffee, and walked out of their shops without buying.

" "Indeed!" said she sweetly; "is that any worse than men going into saloons to get their noses red?" A friend once wrote Mark Twain a letter saying that he was in very bad health, and concluding: "Is there anything worse than having toothache and earache at the same time?

6659 examples of  noses  in sentences