Roman-nosed

Leonardo's deft pen-and-ink profile of a Roman-nosed man modifies an earlier, more grotesque rendering in black chalk still visible beneath it.

Making a Mockery of It All Barrymore Laurence Scherer 2011

The third species, the Chacoan peccary, Roman-nosed peccary or Tagua, is particularly notable in being both relatively recently discovered in living state, and for being initially named from fossils.

Meet peccary # 4 Darren Naish 2006

Everyone knew Edward Gorey's work: the hellishly busy pen-and-ink crosshatching, the interior views of vast, rotting mansions whose carpets and wallpaper threaten to overwhelm the inhabitants -- and those spindly, Roman-nosed people in Edwardian clothes, wilting with melancholy or pop-eyed with the jitters.

E Is For Edward, Whose Work Was So Strange 2008

The third species, the Chacoan peccary, Roman-nosed peccary or Tagua, is particularly notable in being both relatively recently discovered in living state, and for being initially named from fossils.

Archive 2006-07-01 Darren Naish 2006

After a time I am told to specialise in a comical little Roman-nosed pony; but several of the better paid carvers work up caricature images of eminent Utopians.

A Modern Utopia Herbert George 2006

Miss Pinkerton did not understand French; she only directed those who did: but biting her lips and throwing up her venerable and Roman-nosed head (on the top of which figured a large and solemn turban), she said, “Miss Sharp, I wish you a good morning.”

Vanity Fair 2006

His lady is a very tall and pale Roman-nosed Countess, who looks as gentle as Mrs. Robert Roy, where, in the novel, she is for putting Baillie Nicol Jarvie into the lake, and who keeps the honest Chancellor in the greatest order.

The Fitz-Boodle Papers 2006

Roman-nosed charger; he, depend on it, would be for getting off his horse if he had the permission.

Roundabout Papers 2006

There was only one person there; a tall and Roman-nosed lady, glistering over with bugles, in deep mourning.

The Book of Snobs 2006

That extremely handsome little man, not quite nine years old, was a very satisfactory son: tall, sturdily built, blond, and Roman-nosed enough to please his father.

The First Man in Rome McCullough, Colleen, 1937- 1990