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Sharp-nosed   /ʃɑrp-noʊzd/   Listen
Sharp-nosed

adjective
1.
Having a sharply pointed nose.






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"Sharp-nosed" Quotes from Famous Books



... her arts, is a little faded already; don't you see it, Miriam? There is no corrosive poison equal to envy, and that, by-the-by, is her specialty. She is bitterly envious by nature. Most of those thin-lipped, sharp-elbowed, sharp-nosed women are, if you observe. Faded at twenty-three! Sad, but true of half our American morning-glory beauties. For my part, I love the statuesque in women, the enduring! those exquisitely-moulded proportions on which the gaze reposes with such delight, and that set a man to dreaming, whether he will ...
— Miriam Monfort - A Novel • Catherine A. Warfield

... she-wolf with young, on rapine bent, He caught and tethered in his mat-walled tent, And cherished all her little sharp-nosed young, Till the small race with hope and terror clung About his footsteps, till each new-reared brood, Remoter from the memories of the wood More glad discerned their common home with man. This was the work of Jubal: he began The pastoral life, and, sire of joys to be, ...
— Voices for the Speechless • Abraham Firth



Words linked to "Sharp-nosed" :   nosed



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