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...reclusive student gropes for a buzzing alarm clock. He pushes the snooze button--which releases a weight, which pulls a pulley, which, through some complicated mechanism, starts the shower, lays out his clothes, pours milk on his cereal and plops his thick black eyeglasses on the bridge of his nose. Does this man reside in Canaday? Leverett Towers? No. If four-eyes lives on campus, he's refined his apparatus to the point that he needn't leave his room because nobody's seen him yet. In fact, a historical survey of Harvard inventors proves that practicality and an urge...

Author: By Debra P. Hunter and Richard Parr, S | Title: IN THE MEANTIME Patent No. 02138 | 3/18/1999 | See Source »

...reclusive student gropes for a buzzing alarm clock. He pushes the snooze button--which releases a weight, which pulls a pulley, which, through some complicated mechanism, starts the shower, lays out his clothes, pours milk on his cereal and plops his thick black eyeglasses on the bridge of his nose. Does this man reside in Canaday? Leverett Towers? No. If four-eyes lives on campus, he's refined his apparatus to the point that he needn't leave his room because nobody's seen him yet. In fact, a historical survey of Harvard inventors proves that practicality and an urge...

Author: By With DEBRA P. hunter and Richard Parr, S | Title: Patent No. 02138: A Brief History of Undergraduate Inventions | 3/18/1999 | See Source »

...really like Harvard girls," Paul says with his nose in my ear and his hand once again on my butt...

Author: By Alicia A. Carrasquillo and Pamela S. Wasserstein, S | Title: Who's on First? Friday Night in Boston's Sketchiest | 3/18/1999 | See Source »

...Paul is whispering to me now with his nose in my ear and his hand on my butt, so I quickly suggest a drink to Emily. "Will you come back? Please?" says Paul. Oh, yeah, we tell them. You just wait right here...

Author: By Alicia A. Carrasquillo and Pamela S. Wasserstein, S | Title: Who's on First? Friday Night in Boston's Sketchiest | 3/18/1999 | See Source »

...humanist on me. You know what I'm talking about: examples of idiocy and ridiculousness that range from the incipient nose-picker in section to the kiddie porn dealer in Mathews (I know...

Author: By Baratunde R. Thurston, | Title: Separating the Wheat from the Chaff | 3/16/1999 | See Source »

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