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long and nose
While nowadays we recognize the fact that there are many causes for bleeding at the nose, not long ago a nosebleed was simply that, and treatment had little variation.
Maude's long nose unexpectedly wrinkled up.
At the door she turned back, her Roman nose looking very long now and satiric.
Anthropologist Arnold Henry Savage Landor described the Ainu as having deep-set eyes and an eye shape typical of Europeans, with a large and prominent browridge, large ears, hairy and prone to baldness, slightly flattened hook nose with large and broad nostrils, prominent cheek bones, large mouth and thick lips and a long region from nose to mouth and small chin region.
Compared to the modern versions, the Sparrow I was more streamlined and featured a bullet-shaped airframe with a long pointed nose.
All living canids ( Caninae ) have a ligament analogous to the nuchal ligament of ungulates used to maintain the posture of the head and neck with little active muscle exertion ; this ligament allows them to conserve energy while running long distances following scent trails with their nose to the ground.
The Mars Oz design features a horizontal cylinder 4. 7 m in diameter and 18 m long, with a tapered nose.
Muzzle long ; nose pad wide and black ; ears rufous ; legs long ; tail long, bushy, black tipped.
Drag can be minimised by an aerodynamic nose cone and by using a shape with a high ballistic coefficient ( the " classic " rocket shape — long and thin ), and by keeping the rocket's angle of attack as low as possible.
His neck is a little too long, his face thin, and his nose aquiline.
A " large car " or " long nose " is a conventional truck with a long ( or more ) hood.
Black " tear marks " running from the corner of its eyes down the sides of the nose to its mouth keep sunlight out of its eyes and aid in hunting and seeing long distances.
They also have hairless ears and a long, flat nose.
This " Proto-Moomin ," then called Snork or Niisku, was thin and ugly, with a long, narrow nose and devilish tail.
All coatis share a slender head with an elongated, flexible, slightly upward-turned nose, small ears, dark feet, and a long, non-prehensile tail used for balance and signaling.
It is considered a classic of children's literature and has spawned many derivative works of art, such as Disney's 1940 animated movie of the same name, and commonplace ideas such as a liar's long nose.
As he utters this lie ( and more ) his nose begins to grow until it is so long he cannot turn around in the room.
The Fairy explains to Pinocchio that it is his lies that are making his nose grow long, then calls in a flock of woodpeckers to chisel down his nose.
The new king was highly intelligent but close-mouthed and secretive, with sharp eyes, a long nose and a pale, grave manner.

long and at
They poured through the opening in the valley, then spread out in a long line to come at us, brandishing their lances and filling the morning with their spine-chilling scalp cry.
only the counter at one end was lighted by a long fluorescent tube suspended directly above it.
I could observe the two fans down at the end, but their size in themselves meant nothing to me as long as I had no measure of comparison.
It seemed long, at least to Tom Brannon.
Jury, judge and executioner were riding the range in the form of a single unknown figure that could materialize anywhere, at any time, to dispense an ancient brand of justice the men of the new West had believed long outdated.
He looked down at his big hands and slowly flexed his long fingers.
She was telling herself that this might just be her reward at the end of a long meaningful search for truth.
For a brief period each year, the rays of the sun are warm enough to melt some of the snows piled a mile deep at the base of the headwalls, and then the pinnacles glisten in the daytime at high noon, and billions of gallons of water begin their slow seepage under the glaciers and across the rockstrewn hanging valleys on their long, meandering journey to the sea -- running east past the sky-carving massifs of Gurla Mandhata and Kemchenjunga, then turning south and curling down through the jungles of Assam, past the Khasi Hills, and into Bengal, past Sirinjani and Madaripur, until the hard water of the melting snows mingles with the soft drainage of fields and at length fans out to meld with the teeming salt depths of the Bay of Bengal.
When I mentioned that for my first long voyage I did not even have the money for the return fare, but had trusted to luck that I would earn a sufficient amount, the young people looked at me doubtingly.
He knelt down at his bed as long as he could kneel.
It was her job to stand at the foot of the stairs, and, just as the First Lady stepped off the last tread, Mama would straighten out her long train before she marched to the Blue Room to greet her guests with the President.
A volunteer food brigade had been arranged, they told me, which would supply me with the necessities as long as I remained at the bridge.
After complimenting Morgan and the riflemen and saying he was praising them to Congress, too, the ardent Frenchman added he felt that Congress should make some financial restitution to the widow and family of Morris, but that he knew Morgan realized how long such action usually required, if it was done at all.
but I liked to think of him at ninety swimming and working at Key West long after Hemingway had moved to Cuba.
They laughed and, true to national form and manners, never talked long or solemnly on any subject at all, but some of them worried out loud about short memories and ghosts.
An amateur decorator might try her hand at a pair during the long winter evenings, and, by picking up her living room color scheme, add a decorative do-it-yourself note to the room.
After a tortuous drive in an open truck and a World War 2, army jeep down soggy trails, the band arrived at a small clearing squeezed between a long, low ridge and a creek-filled gully.
Rachel wore a smart hat and, because she had been warned recently about smoking, puffed at her cigarettes through a long ivory holder stained with lipstick.
Here, too, she talked low, quirking her head at one or another of the places, most often at Izaak's armchair which faced her across the long table.
The Starbird had been long at the bottom of the bay.

long and smells
It smells and smoulders like a volcano buried so long and deadly it is just beginning to wonder if it can explode.
All the landscape of the nearer foreground was familiar — its sights, its sounds, its smells ; hardly a field that did not call up some half-forgotten bit of association ; the red-roofed village and nearby hamlets, gathered as it were for company round the old greystone church, where men and women like ourselves, now long dead and gone, had once knelt in worship and prayer.
Blake Morrison in The Guardian also offered high praise: " The Plot Against America creates its reality magisterially, in long, fluid sentences that carry you beyond scepticism and with a quotidian attentiveness to sights and sounds, tastes and smells, surnames and nicknames and brandnames — an accumulation of petits faits vrais — that dissolves any residual disbelief.
Ella comes into the kitchen and smells it and keeps George away just long enough for them to get rid of everything.

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