copper-nosed

Don't you remember how angry old copper-nosed Grimes used to get when the larboard watch turned in, and, instead of sleeping, we made you go ahead with the story you were on, which made him wish us all at Davy Jones 'locker?

Select Temperance Tracts American Tract Society

'Oh, you copper-nosed old fool -- you impotent Academician!' he shouted at last.

The Light That Failed Rudyard Kipling 1900

I shall be one of 'em some day -- a copper-nosed was-bird! ...

Traffics and Discoveries Rudyard Kipling 1900

It was not the first time that Mr. Kordé had had visions of copper-nosed owls and other horrors.

The Day of Wrath M��r J��kai 1864

Nor must we omit, among Meg’s steady customers, “faithful amongst the unfaithful found,” the copper-nosed sheriff-clerk of the county, who, when summoned by official duty to that district of the shire, warmed by recollections of her double-brewed ale, and her generous

Saint Ronan's Well 2008