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- noun The
needlefish ,garfish .
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Examples
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While the leaked vehicle pics have been disappointing (a non-VW Bumblebee, and a long-nose Semi for Prime), these shots of the robots look spot on with a modern twist.
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For wildlife, take a river boat through the Klias Wetlands, a two-hour drive from Kota Kinabalu, where it's easy to spot Borneo's unique long-nose proboscis monkeys as they gather in the trees along the banks in late afternoon.
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While the leaked vehicle pics have been disappointing (a non-VW Bumblebee, and a long-nose Semi for Prime), these shots of the robots look spot on with a modern twist.
Flixnjoystix.com! » Michael Bay’s Optimus Prime and Bumblebee Revealed Online! 2006
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I wonder if Martsch worked on the Marionette Show a "second final draft" scene with no Culhane/Tate or possibly as one of the "about eight names" on the before-preview version of the long-nose sequence...
Prod. 2003 - Seq. 12 - Solid Gold, Too! Hans Perk 2007
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You have to assemble it yourself, so if nothing else you'll get a little more adept with long-nose pliers.
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QUESTION: What's normally known as a long-nose .22.
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She doubted that anybody would believe in a two-horn the size of a long-nose.
The Elvenbane Lackey, Mercedes 1991
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Instead he petted her, persuading her to eat her favourite pudding, buying her a new work-box that she needed, dismissing a boy from the choir (the only treble who was a treble) because he was supposed to have made a long-nose at Grace during choir-practice.
The Captives Hugh Walpole 1912
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Then there was a skipping, twining, silvery, long-nose that could hardly be kept in the net, a fish that looked remarkably like an eel, save for its regularly shaped mackerel tail, and long beak-like nose.
Menhardoc George Manville Fenn 1870
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Then there was quite a sight of a little shoal of gar-fish or long-nose, which played about the top of the water for some time here and there in a state of excitement; and then there was a splashing and flashing, and one after the other they threw themselves over the cork-line and escaped to the open bay.
Menhardoc George Manville Fenn 1870
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