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On this known earth, I know exactly what I am – an awkward, big-nosed, stumble-footed creature bumbling his way from one “excuse me” to the next “sorry.”
Apology of a Madman 2009
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A big-nosed guy in a Kid Icarus costume, feathered wings dripping blood.
Can You Survive The Zombie Apocalypse? Max Brallier 2011
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How many of you are tired of hearing your country torn down by a "big-nosed, cross-eyed freak" like Barbra Streisand?
Dana Milbank's Glenn Beck book "Tears of a Clown," reviewed by David Oshinsky David Oshinsky 2010
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The big-nosed Professor Ochanomizu is trying to spend his day off from the Ministry of Science at a park, but his mandatory security detail robot interrupts the respite.
*Pluto: Urasawa x Tezuka Book 4 — Recommended » Manga Worth Reading 2009
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A big-nosed guy in a Kid Icarus costume, feathered wings dripping blood.
Can You Survive The Zombie Apocalypse? Max Brallier 2011
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All right, America, a show of hands: How many of you are tired of hearing your country torn down by a "big-nosed, cross-eyed freak" like Barbra Streisand?
Dana Milbank's Glenn Beck book "Tears of a Clown," reviewed by David Oshinsky David Oshinsky 2010
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By one of those hair-raising coincidences that so bedevil the literary world, this is also the birth-date of Vlad Tepes, the big-nosed and utterly ruthless Romanian warlord known to history as “the Impaler.”
The OLM Blog 2009
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He didn't say this right in front of the guy, who was blond and big-nosed, in that attractive cheekbones-as-wings European way: the horizontal glasses with the geek frames atop the great bones ... anyway, my information comes from one of The Boyfriends, whom Jenla turned to, when she thought the moment had passed, to ask if Jason Kinderaki had been serious.
Ann Beattie's 'The Rock': Narrative Magazine's Friday Feature 2010
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But Richard Reid WAS swarthy, big-nosed and bearded.
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He didn't say this right in front of the guy, who was blond and big-nosed, in that attractive cheekbones-as-wings European way: the horizontal glasses with the geek frames atop the great bones ... anyway, my information comes from one of The Boyfriends, whom Jenla turned to, when she thought the moment had passed, to ask if Jason Kinderaki had been serious.
Ann Beattie's 'The Rock': Narrative Magazine's Friday Feature 2010
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