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  • I got a negative lesson in this one afternoon on the Mexico City Metro when a blue-eyed, blonde drunk lost bowel control -- grossing everyone out -- and was called a "sucio indio" by a dark-skinned, roman-nosed, short and very proper Chilango.

    Page 3 2009

  • By the time Virg Haskell returned with the pair of roman-nosed horses belonging to the squatter, the wagon was loaded.

    Stands a Calder Man Janet Dailey 1983

  • By the time Virg Haskell returned with the pair of roman-nosed horses belonging to the squatter, the wagon was loaded.

    Stands a Calder Man Janet Dailey 1983

  • She coiled it deftly, and stepping into the enclosure, flipped the noose over the head of a roman-nosed roan.

    Prairie Flowers 1921

  • The two swung from the saddles and the roman-nosed outlaw pricked his ears and set against the rope with fore legs braced.

    The Texan A Story of the Cattle Country 1921

  • Horses of all kinds under me, lean and fat, short and high, roman-nosed and goose-necked, broken and unbroken; away and away, shifting saddle and bridle and saddle-bag as I left each tired mount behind me.

    Mr. Isaacs 1881

  • Walter Lester, and the valorous attendant with whom it had pleased Fate to endow him, rode slowly into a small town in which the Corporal in his own heart, had resolved to bait his roman-nosed horse and refresh himself.

    Eugene Aram — Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

  • And in passing each of the said hostelries, the roman-nosed horse had uttered a snort of indignant surprise, and the worthy Corporal had responded to the quadrupedal remonstrance by a loud hem.

    Eugene Aram — Volume 02 Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

  • Lester, and the valorous attendant with whom it had pleased Fate to endow him, rode slowly into a small town in which the Corporal in his own heart, had resolved to bait his roman-nosed horse and refresh himself.

    Eugene Aram — Volume 02 Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

  • And in passing each of the said hostelries, the roman-nosed horse had uttered

    Eugene Aram — Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

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