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...fingers through his silky beard. Plow nicely it ran down from his white hair past his big ears and around his chin! He was like a cleaned-up Santa Claus. And his big mustache was hanging like a curtain below his fleshy hooked nose. That nose was like the snout of an amiable tapir...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Virile Lorenz | 3/22/1926 | See Source »

...quizzical little snout...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Point With Pride: Nov. 24, 1924 | 11/24/1924 | See Source »

...might add to governmental red tape. It is barely possible that their reticence may be laid to another cause. A recent article proposed the identification of cattle not by branding but by this same print-method: only in their case the impression was to be made with the snout. Man can hardly be blamed for fearing to fall in the same category...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: JOHN SMITH--HIS MARK | 2/17/1923 | See Source »

...derelicts, or "bootleg" pirates, Captain John Roberts of the White Star liner Baltic has sought to vary the season's program with a description of the discovery of a sea monster in mid-Atlantic. Twelve feet long and nine feet around, of dark brown or black color, ears and snout similar to that on a pig--it seems to be a monster not otherwise known outside of the medieval "Bestiaries...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "THAT OLD LEVIATHAN" | 1/18/1923 | See Source »

There are about a dozen different species of snakes of which the commonest is the brown snake. It is, however, seldom seen at the surface of the ground except after heavy rains. The so called hog nose snake is named for its peculiar shaped snout which is used in digging in the ground for grubs. When attacked these serpents often feign death, and do it so effectually that people have supposed that they fainted from fright. The small green snake, and the larger black snake are both well known and perfectly harmless, as is also the pugnacious checkered adder...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Reptiles and Batracians. | 4/27/1895 | See Source »

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