EXPLANATIONS
The most conspicuous organ in face may be the 'nose'. When authors describe faces of their characters, they cannot avoid describing nose. A stock of good adjectives will help authors in describing faces in impressively.
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aquiline nose (eagle like, curved like the nose of an eagle), arched nose
beaky nose (Punch Magazine), black nose
corpulent nose
curved nose
false nose, fat nose
flat nose
gigantic nose
hooked nose, holy nose
itchy nose
luminous nose
noble nose [William Schwenk Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan]
oblique nose
pert nose
pierced nose, pink nose
pointed nose
perforated nose
precious nose
pretty nose, pronounced nose, protracted nose, purplish nose (Cleveland Moffett)
red nose, reddened nose, rubican nose
sharp nose, snubby nose [Author: Laura Rountree Smith]
splendid nose
square nose, straight nose, stubby nose, sunburnt nose
tame nose, tapered nose
truncated nose
velvet nose
wondrous nose
wrinkled nose
651. "Withal it is an exceeding corpulent nose, thus, and so, all in one
place, at the end," proceeded Yi Chin Ho. "Your excellency would seek far and wide and many a day for that nose and find it not." "An unusual nose," admitted the Governor. [Jack London in his stories]
652. His countenance was of a dark snuff-color, and he had a long hooked nose, pea eyes, a wide mouth, and an excellent set of teeth, which latter he seemed anxious of displaying, as he was grinning from ear to ear. [Edgar Allan Poe in his 'The Devil in the Belfry'.]
653. And he wove him a wondrous Nose,--
A Nose as strange as a Nose could be!
Of vast proportions and painted red,
And tied with cords to the back of his head. [Edward Lear in his lyric 'The Dong with a luminous nose']
654. God A is represented as a figure with an exposed, bony spine, truncated nose and grinning teeth.[10-1] It is plainly to be seen that the head of this god represents a skull and that the spine is that of a skeleton. [Paul Schellhas in his 'Representation of deities in Maya Manuscripts'>.
655. Miss Agnes Brendon gave a little upward lift to her small pert nose as she exclaimed: "Tilly Morris, you don't mean to say that you don't know who the Pelhams are?" [Nora Perry in her 'A Flock of Girls and Boys'].
656. The dead body of a man, with a thin grizzled beard, an aquiline nose, and big eyes with the eyelids closed, was lying on the floor. [Leo Tolstoy in his story 'The YOung Tsar'].
657. All went smoothly until the prophetess happened to see the Professor's sunburnt nose, fiery red from the four days' run in wind and rain, and said warningly,-- "You are too fond of good eating and drinking; you drink too much, and unless you are more temperate you will die in twenty years." That was too much for the Professor, whose occasional glass of beer--a habit left over from his student days--would not discolor the nose of a humming-bird. [Arthur Jerome Eddy in his novel 'Two thousand miles of an automobile'.]
658. The younger Bunner sister, who was a little taller than her
elder, had a more pronounced nose, but a weaker slope of mouth and
chin. She still permitted herself the frivolity of waving her pale hair, and its tight little ridges, stiff as the tresses of an Assyrian statue, were flattened under a dotted veil which ended at the tip of her cold-reddened nose.[Edith Wharton in his 'Bunner Sisters'.]
659. And he was white-skinned with fine, silky hair that had darkened from fair, and a slightly arched nose of an old country family. They were a beautiful couple. [D.H. Lawrence in his 'ngland, My England'.]
660. A very learned man was Father Hogan, especially in casting out
devils, and a portly, good-looking man too, only he had a large
rubicon nose, which people said he got by making over free with the
cratur in sacret.[George Borrow in his 'Wild Wales'.]
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