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  • The Tutsis were a thin-nosed, tall race, who ate beef and drank milk.

    An Ordinary Man (copy) ____Maggie 2006

  • The Tutsis were a thin-nosed, tall race, who ate beef and drank milk.

    Archive 2006-11-01 ____Maggie 2006

  • His narrow thin-nosed face, with mustaches and small beard neatly waxed to points, seemed more suited to a palace than a district of beggars.

    Conan The Victorious Jordan, Robert 1984

  • Our thin-nosed pale friend said, 'Sir, I asked the men very reasonably to turn out on parade but they refused.

    A Rude Awakening Aldiss, Brian 1978

  • In the hallway stood a man -- a little, sharp-faced, small-eyed, thin-nosed person, with a very white complexion, and a large, smooth-shaved mouth, open as if in a smile that never ceased.

    A Husband by Proxy Jack Steele

  • At dinner that evening she asked Mrs. Kilroy who and what that thin-nosed man, that sort of reminiscence of Shakespeare, was.

    The Beth Book Being a Study of the Life of Elizabeth Caldwell Maclure, a Woman of Genius Sarah Grand

  • His talks with the carefully non-committal trader and the thin-nosed, shifty-eye Silvertip; and finally his decision to spend the winter on the Island in search of the precious metal.

    Where the Sun Swings North Barrett Willoughby

  • I looked at Percy, at thin-nosed, unpractical Percy, with all his finicky sensibilities, with his high fastidious reticences, with his effete, inbred meagerness of bone and sinew, with his distinguished pride of distinguished race rather running to seed.

    The Prairie Wife Arthur Stringer 1912

  • Then he tip-toed away unseen, with a condoning smile on his astute and thin-nosed old face.

    The Man Who Made Good 1910

  • Old Gaunt, smoothing and smoothing the lined, thin cheeks of the parchmenty, thin-nosed face that Frances Freeland had thought to be almost like a gentleman's, answered: "I thart you said you was goin '."

    The Freelands John Galsworthy 1900

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