How To Use Aquiline In A Sentence
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She watched Luke read it, saw the gathering frown carve two grooves over his aquiline nose.
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The profile that passed the window was of the sort called aquiline, after the beak of the eagle; but he rather suggested a grey and venerable eagle; an eagle in repose; an eagle that has long folded its wings.
The Complete Father Brown
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There's the bold, aquiline nose, to be sure; the high, intelligent forehead and strong chin.
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Advertising has also been blamed for maintenance of a contentious concept that long-haired, fair-skinned women with aquiline noses have the monopoly on attractiveness.
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Komarov had a long face, an aquiline nose and intense dark brown eyes.
CHAMELEON
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Those eyes were deep pools of cocoa brown and set over well chiseled cheekbones and a straight aquiline nose that was shadowed by a ghost of a goatee.
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Today his tall frame is clad in a shirt with notably large blue checks; his jet black hair is immaculately cut, setting off a strong, aquiline nose.
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Ed's incredibly distinguished-looking; elegant, a young forty-one, with strong cheekbones and an aquiline nose.
RESCUING ROSE
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The profile of the old warrior was characterized by a strong jaw and an aquiline nose.
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Her Dose is slender, aquiline, her long neck elegant, chin delicate.
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The prominent nasal bones in Neandertal skulls top wide nasal openings, suggesting that they sported large, aquiline noses.
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It is sensitively modeled to portray the aquiline nose and almond-shaped eyes of the king.
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It pleased him in a strange way to see the shock on her arrogant, aquiline face.
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Mr. Carmichael was a tall man, well over six feet, and slender, with aquiline features and dark hair perfectly oiled and combed into sleek lines rising from his high, strong forehead.
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Her nose narrowed and took on an aquiline cast, while her forehead receded from her brow.
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You cannot tell whether her nose was aquiline or retrousse, whether her chin was long or short, her face square or oval; nor could I the first day, and it is not my intention to communicate to you at once a knowledge I myself gained by little and little.
The Professor, by Charlotte Bronte
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I turn around, in time to see a look of utter disgust evaporate off his aquiline features.
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It was an almost unreasonably handsome face, the sharp chiseled cheekbones and slightly aquiline nose lending it an air of aristocracy she had not expected to find in a small Virginia town in the middle of nowhere.
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Wayne replied gently as he placed Grandma Eva's cola-framed spectacles on top of her aquiline nose.
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He had a thin aquiline nose and deep-set brown eyes.
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A pair of short, pointed ears were on the upper rear portion of its long, aquiline skull.
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The man's skin was almost as parchment-like as Lord Scion's was, and an aquiline nose jutted out from the man's bony cheeks.
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While sipping this delicious coffee, her conversation intentionally allowed her to spread the confidence of her beautiful thin, high cheekbone face with an aquiline nose and skin with a softness and color of milk.
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This effect was heightened by the delicately aquiline nose with its thin trembling nostrils, and by the general air of eagle wildness which seemed to characterize not only the face but the creature herself.
THE GREAT INTERROGATION
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She was compassionate and spontaneous - a handsome if not conventionally beautiful woman with hazel eyes and a distinctive aquiline nose.
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The older woman had a lean face, a long neck, and an aquiline nose.
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Ian had a narrow, sharp-featured face with an aquiline nose, rather hollow cheeks and intense dark eyes.
COME AND BE KILLED
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He was impressively tall, cadaverously thin, yet upright and youthful-looking for his age, clean shaven and silver-haired, with high, prominent cheekbones and a large aquiline nose.
Oscar Wilde and the Dead Man’s Smile
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The girl had a lovely face with an aquiline nose, a broad full mouth and eyes like blue sapphires.
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She watched Luke read it, saw the gathering frown carve two grooves over his aquiline nose.
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There's the bold, aquiline nose, to be sure; the high, intelligent forehead and strong chin.
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Her nose narrowed and took on an aquiline cast, while her forehead receded from her brow.
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When Louis heard the process referred to as the daguerreotype, he felt a sting of embarrassment; all the geriatric men of the Academy—patent-holders with hooded eyes, aldermen with aquiline noses and snuff pouches—peered in his direction.
The Mercury Visions of Louis Daguerre
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His delicate, aquiline face was full of controlled emotion.
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With his fair hair, strong jaw line, light blue eyes and aquiline nose, he could easily have just walked out of the Scottish Highlands and into the bar at London's Marriott Hotel.
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Her Dose is slender, aquiline, her long neck elegant, chin delicate.
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They all had caps of the same pattern, and wore a subdued look, in addition to their naturally aquiline features, as if a breaker -- a "comber" -- had washed over them.
Cape Cod
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Only five feet tall, she was plump, with an aquiline nose and large eyes.
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The man that strolled along behind them would've made up the mass of the two women added together, tall, slabby, razor-cut black hair, hot green eyes, aquiline nose, just the way you'd imagine a man called Command-Pilot Ta-Den Okitas would look.
New Race
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Her eyes were small and brightly anxious, threaded with fine filaments of blood, and her aquiline nose was now a pug nose in which broken capillaries glowed with a sullen heat.
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The Somalis are tall and wiry in stature, with aquiline features, elongated heads, and light brown to black skin.
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A medallion in Hughes Hall portrays her with short hair, an aquiline nose, and a determined chin.
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She took note of his strong aquiline nose and his blue eyes sparkling with amusement.
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She watched Luke read it, saw the gathering frown carve two grooves over his aquiline nose.
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He had a thin aquiline nose and deep-set brown eyes.
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In life, Maxwell was lean, wiry, with an aquiline handsomeness that became impressively hawklike in old age.
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They seldom laughed or twinkled and the nose that kept them company was equally sedate, being purely aquiline, but a mouth with dimpled corners upset the scheme entirely, while ripples of golden brown hair completed the picture of a healthy, happy youngster -- not radiantly beautiful but what people like to call "winsome," which is after all as good a word as most.
Across the Mesa
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The high aquiline nose which is characteristic of the autochthonic race abounds in San Sebastian, but we saw no signs of the high temper which is said to go with it.
Familiar Spanish Travels
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Her nose was aquiline, her teeth sharp, her eyes a nonreflective gray.
Scott Westerfeld: Uglies Quartet
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The man has a strong and aquiline nose.
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His face is a vertical edifice offset by a bulbous, somewhat aquiline nose, lined with sunken black eyes that have clearly observed the Hollywood abattoir too many times.
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The theology was complicated, despite the jut - jawed charm and aquiline intensity with which it was expressed.
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Her Dose is slender, aquiline, her long neck elegant, chin delicate.
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With his close-cropped silver hair, aquiline nose, and steel-gray eyes, Williamson looks every bit the wizard, in a Clive Barker-movie sort of way.
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With aquiline, tanned good looks and lank blond hair, he wore expensive but rumpled clothing with offhand, upper-class ease.
HOUR OF THE HUNTER
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Her nose was aquiline, and fit her face perfectly.
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The new vocation would draw upon his curiosity, but mainly on his looks, his special features: the characteristic oval face, aquiline nose and shocking white beard.
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Lyndsey's sharp features, small chin, high cheekbones, did not remotely resemble Emma's aquiline nose and oval face.
HIDING FROM THE LIGHT
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Age had ravaged his features, but his nose remained aquiline and his eyes sharp.
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Back to something we were discussing earlier -- I often think about how my kind of nose is written about as 'Hebrew' but Chris, whose nose is almost identical, well, hers is 'aquiline' --
GINNY BATES: BACK TO HOW IT ALL BEGAN
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The septuagenarian was tall, with aquiline good looks, and a charm backed by erudition.
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Her Dose is slender, aquiline, her long neck elegant, chin delicate.
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All you see are his twinkling eyes and the top of an aquiline nose.
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Thus an ornithologist might describe a colleague as having an aquiline nose, but would not use the word aquiline in reference to a bird of the eagle group.
VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol IV No 3
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Deep creases furrowed on his weather beaten aquiline face.
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His face and neck were of a lusty red, but lean and stringy; he always wore his expensive gold-rim eye-glasses slightly askew upon his aquiline nose; and he always showed two gleaming foreteeth under his moustache, in a smile so perpetual as to earn the reputation of a sneer.
The Ball and the Cross
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His nose was aquiline and thin, but not too long.
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A mustachioed man in a pullover meets a wavy-haired blonde to produce a figure with an oddly raffish cavalier look; a middle-aged woman with a complex hairdo acquires the aquiline nose of the actor she obscures.
Brian Dillon on John Stezaker at the Whitechapel Gallery
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She stared at the crowd with enormous owl-like eyes that blinked in mechanical measure just above a slight aquiline nose.
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The other was a shrewd-looking, keen-faced, sparely-built man, with somewhat aquiline nose and straight narrow forehead, not at all bad-looking or evil-looking and with an air of strong determination; in short, what one calls a masterful man.
The Workingman's Paradise An Australian Labour Novel
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At an upstairs window they present a life size dummy head: firm jaw, aquiline nose, shining complexion.
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THE chief is a tall well made man, very affable and cheerful, about sixty years of age, his eyes lively and full of fire, his countenance manly and placid, yet ferocious, or what we call savage; his nose aquiline, his dress extremely simple, but his head trimmed and ornamented in the true Creek mode.
Travels Through North & South Carolina, Georgia, East & West Florida, the Cherokee Country, the Extensive Territories of the Muscogulges, or Creek Confederacy, and the Country of the Chactaws; Containing An Account of the Soil and Natural Producti
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It is sensitively modeled to portray the aquiline nose and almond-shaped eyes of the king.
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Devin's fair and aquiline features were highlighted silver in the moonlit night.
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His face was narrow and his nose aquiline, as if carved by hot winds driving over an arid land.
NOTHING TO WEAR AND NOWHERE TO HIDE: A COLLECTION OF SHORT STORIES
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There were Christian Albanians with their white fustanellas, high aquiline nose, glittering eyes, and false smile, in dress somewhat similar to the Morlacchi, but wearing a smaller fez with a long blue tassel.
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Under the heading of individuality there is to be considered the repetition of the same feature from man to man, the simian type, for example, and the aquiline: the aquiline and the simian must be taken to be differences in the Idea of Man as there are different types of the animal: but Matter also has its effect in bringing about the degree of aquilinity.
The Six Enneads.
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The sunlight tinged everything dully orange, its rays sifting through an ever-present layer of dust, and in it her aquiline profile was haloed in gold.
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I was drawn to the figures done in folk-style — rather than those with a Caucasian look, such as aquiline noses.
A Filipino Chef's Wooden Pursuits
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His teeth were very even and his nose aquiline - almost sharp.
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Veneering, in a pervadingly aquiline state of figure, and with transparent little knobs on her temper, like the little transparent knob on the bridge of her nose, ‘Worn out by worry and excitement,’ as she tells her dear Mr Twemlow, and reluctantly revived with curacoa by the
Our Mutual Friend
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Okay, so I think you describe her as having a long aquiline face, but I imagined her like this despite that.
Stick 'Em With the Pointy End
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His face was chiselled and aquiline, with an aristocratic bearing.
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Forster looks as handsomely out-of-place as he ever has, aquiline and arch in a white linen suit.
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The aquiline visage of our figure is not that of an old man, while the richness of his dress seems to indicate that, if he is a peasant or servant, he is no ordinary one.
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His aquiline features, bronzed complexion, and wavy black hair formed a striking contrast to her fairness.
LORD OF THE SILENT
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With his aquiline profile, unfashionable dress, strange accent and flowing locks of chestnut-brown hair, John James Audubon must have drawn curious stares from onlookers.
