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Hook-nosed   /hʊk-noʊzd/   Listen
Hook-nosed

adjective
1.
Having an aquiline nose.






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"Hook-nosed" Quotes from Famous Books



... have undertaken it," said Elsie, "had I not been frightened by that hook-nosed old kite of a cavalier that has been sailing and perching round. We are two lone women here, and the times are unsettled, and one never knows, that hath so fair a prize, but she may be carried off, and then no ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 8, No. 50, December, 1861 • Various

... nine score and odd posts: and here, travel-tainted as I am, have, in my pure and immaculate valour, taken Sir John Colevile of the dale, a most furious knight and valorous enemy. But what of that? he saw me, and yielded; that I may justly say, with the hook-nosed fellow of Rome, ...
— King Henry IV, Second Part • William Shakespeare [Chiswick edition]

... tall, slender, swarthy man on the extreme left of the group watched him with a malevolent gaze, his eyes flaming hate; he saw a black-haired, hook-nosed fellow near the center of the group watching him with a grin of ...
— 'Drag' Harlan • Charles Alden Seltzer

... in seeing her car coming far down the road. When either of them saw it the other was summoned, and they waited tremblingly. But the landaulet always passed, with Mrs. Carter staring straight ahead, gray-haired and hook-nosed; sometimes with Miss Margaret Carter, whose softly piquant little nose would in time be hooked like her mother's. Father's treacherous ally the chauffeur never even looked at "The T Room." Sometimes Father wondered if the ...
— The Innocents - A Story for Lovers • Sinclair Lewis



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