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    aquiline


    1. flowing hair, showing the aquiline profile of a true son of the Julian clan, except for


    2. In profile he had a slightly aquiline nose, slightly ridged in the middle, and I couldn’t help noticing that his shirt strained a little around his mid-riff


    3. He wore black from head to toe, was tanned and lean under a shock of black, flowing hair, showing the aquiline profile of a true son of the Julian clan, except for the silver bar that pierced the bridge of his nose


    4. With his lantern jaw, with his sparkling blue eyes and with his perfectly aquiline nose, Archibald followed in his father’s footsteps and became a matinee idol on the silver screen, fulfilling his long but dearly departed father's final wish


    5. aquiline nose, Archibald followed in his father’s footsteps and


    6. His face featured a prominent jaw, along with an aquiline nose, brooding lips, eyes that went straight to their mark like arrows, and a closely trimmed dark beard


    7. The Major in charge came over to Captain Melstone who was stood smoking with us the Fusilier Officer was a tall thin man who stood ramrod straight and had iron grey hair and the most aquiline green eyes that I had ever seen


    8. But he just propped one hand under his chin, tracing the aquiline bridge of his own nose with his eyebrows drawn together in a way I had begun to recognize as unease


    9. Their faces are strong, but a little too aquiline to be considered truly beautiful


    10. Someone moved among them of smallish stature, or was it distance that ruled the size that he saw? It did not seem to have the shape of a man, but more aquiline, like a large boy just before he had come into his manhood, but somehow different than that

    11. The Manu has a very striking face of great power, with an aquiline nose, a


    12. The Master Hilarion is a Greek and, except that He has a slightly aquiline


    13. complexion with an aquiline nose and a well trimmed beard was offset by


    14. It was the same shy face, the same aquiline nose with pursed lips, as if they were ready to ask a question


    15. He was handsome in an aquiline, ruthless way


    16. Behind the torch she could make out figures now, the glint of steel, then five countenances bent toward her, not swarthy and hook-nosed, but lean, aquiline faces, browned by the sun


    17. She stood straight and tall before him, and in spite of her ragged garb, her features, clear-cut and aquiline, and her keen black eyes, were not those of a common peasant woman


    18. The great aquiline beak and razor-sharp talons tore the bloody meat to shreds and the bird quickly devoured it with a ravenous intensity


    19. centuries–old Arabic blood, almond eyes, a slanting, aquiline nose above his meaty


    20. going?” His aquiline ride consented and fell into into a deep and steady dive into

    21. About five-ten with a clear complexion and an aquiline nose, she was somewhere in her mid-twenties, her wide almond eyes lending her an air of sophistication that Michael couldn’t quite put his finger on


    22. Llewellyn’s aquiline nostrils quivered a fraction at this, but he said nothing, beyond the accurate observation, ‘You were never a Boy Scout


    23. The Captain had immediately looked down his aquiline nose at him and ordered him to go out and salvage supplies from the wreckage of the plane


    24. The picture was complete except for one thing, a scowl marred the Baron’s aquiline features, as he stared down the long table at Evette sourly


    25. "Now, there you are hasty, sir," said Barsad, with a smile that gave his aquiline nose an extra inclination to one side; "there you really give me an advantage over you


    26. The portrait he draws in the preface to the novels, with the aquiline features, chestnut hair, smooth untroubled forehead, and bright cheerful eyes, is the very portrait of a sanguine man


    27. "How! not vanquished?" said he of the Grove; "by the heaven that is above us I fought Don Quixote and overcame him and made him yield; and he is a man of tall stature, gaunt features, long, lank limbs, with hair turning grey, an aquiline nose rather hooked, and large black drooping


    28. In appearance he was about fifty years of age, with but few grey hairs, an aquiline cast of


    29. She could see at once by his dark eyes and his pale intellectual face that he was a foreigner, the image of the photo she had of Martin Harvey, the matinee idol, only for the moustache which she preferred because she wasn't stagestruck like Winny Rippingham that wanted they two to always dress the same on account of a play but she could not see whether he had an aquiline nose or a slightly retroussé from where he was sitting


    30. It was a gaunt, aquiline face which was turned towards us, with piercing dark eyes, which lurked in deep hollows under overhung and tufted brows

    31. His dark, handsome, aquiline features were convulsed into a spasm of vindictive hatred, which had set his dead face in a terribly fiendish expression


    32. What if she’d known that she carried this gene, this fate, in every cell of her body? Would she have conceived these children or taken precautions to prevent them? Would she have been willing to risk the random roll of meiosis? Her amber eyes, John’s aquiline nose, and her presenilin-1


    33. As to Captain Lydgate himself, his low brow, his aquiline nose bent on one side, and his rather heavy utterance, might have been disadvantageous in any young gentleman who had not a military bearing and mustache to give him what is doted on by some flower-like blond heads as "style


    34. His aquiline features appeared to have imploded so that the face seemed squat, crinkled like a concertina that has had air thrust out of it


    35. The great nostrils of the white aquiline nose opened wide and quivered at the edge, and the white sharp teeth, behind the full lips of the blood dripping mouth, clamped together like those of a wild beast


    36. The waxen face, the high aquiline nose, on which the light fell in a thin white line, the parted red lips, with the sharp white teeth showing between, and the red eyes that I had seemed to see in the sunset on the windows of St


    37. His profile, all of whose lines were rounded, without thereby losing their firmness, had a certain Germanic sweetness, which has made its way into the French physiognomy by way of Alsace and Lorraine, and that complete absence of angles which rendered the Sicambres so easily recognizable among the Romans, and which distinguishes the leonine from the aquiline race


    38. In the dim light of the lamp I saw him sitting there, an old briar pipe between his lips, his eyes fixed vacantly upon the corner of the ceiling, the blue smoke curling up from him, silent, motionless, with the light shining upon his strong-set aquiline features


    39. I looked through the window and saw a German, who was arranging a watch, forty-five years of age, an aquiline nose, swollen eyes, a dress-coat with a very high collar


    40. 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

    41. Motionless she gazed at the aquiline nose, the upturned feet, and the protruding eyeballs; sobbing and sighing, and drying her tears at long, regular intervals


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    Synonyms for "aquiline"

    aquiline hooked

    "aquiline" definitions

    curved down like an eagle's beak