Word: nose
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1870-1879
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...since you prefer to hunt with him, you shall share with him." So the Lion and the Owl fared well, and the Fox was satisfied with his Hare; but the poor Kid had nothing, and when he found a juicy branch, he only turned up his nose and said, "Give it to the Lion...
...woman cannot help reading anything that looks like a love-letter, and I thought it prudent to enter in time to prevent my desk from being ransacked. After they had gone, I found that the nose of my bust of Goethe was broken, my O. K. cookies had been eaten, and a mustache had been painted on my favorite photograph of Mary Anderson. Do you wonder that I fell into a gloomy train of thought? 'This Class Day,' said I to myself, as I looked down upon the throng below, 'is a resting-point in a man's life...
Miss Langweilig was alone in the dressing-room, and what a fright she was! Dress grass-green, eyes a few shades lighter, hair red and banged, nose strongly interrogative, and mouth exclamatory. I knew her by sight, (as who does not?) but had never met her. But the case was desperate; so, instead of "holding the finger of perplexity in the mouth of deliberation," I did with my courage as Mr. Shakespeare directs and began the onslaught...
After about fifteen minutes, when the applause which burst forth spontaneously at this brilliant sally, had somewhat abated, Miss Rosamond Mortimer, the poet, was escorted on to the stage. Her appearance was in every respect romantic. Her profile was of the purest Grecian type, excepting her nose, which, being a little retrousse, added marvellously to the deep sentiment written plainly in her other features. There was a plaintive dulcet tone to her voice that thrilled the heart of every hearer, as completely as - as - as the squeaking of bad chalk does in a recitation-room. Her poem, "On the Beauty...
That into my nose are swiftly whirled...