The sun was a tonic; the turned-up earth smelt good. From Wordnik.com. [Pushed and the Return Push] Reference
She had short spiky hair, a turned-up nose, and a wide mouth. From Wordnik.com. [Death of a Charming Man]
Katie; ‘you have only said that she had a turned-up nose.’. From Wordnik.com. [The Three Clerks] Reference
Ann Snow was a pretty girl with a rather square face and a turned-up nose. From Wordnik.com. [A Murder of Quality]
He ran to the window, pressing his little turned-up nose against the panes. From Wordnik.com. [Seven O'Clock Stories] Reference
Hamish had often read that a turned-up nose was supposed to be saucy and attractive. From Wordnik.com. [Death of a Dentist]
They all, including Mrs. Chattisbourne, had turned-up noses and brownish-blonde hair. From Wordnik.com. [To Say Nothing of the Dog]
Their olive skins, little, turned-up noses, and black, beady eyes must have given them. From Wordnik.com. [Early European History] Reference
She pointed to a region of the heavens just to the left of the statue's turned-up nose. From Wordnik.com. [The Servant Problem] Reference
Listen, BET, from your comfortless seat on the turned-up pail, -- if you've got the time. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, June 20, 1891] Reference
A woman with a short, turned-up nose should avoid a hat turned up too sharply from the face. From Wordnik.com. [Make Your Own Hats] Reference
This youngster had long hair and a weak face, with prominent cheekbones and a turned-up nose. From Wordnik.com. [Creatures That Once Were Men, and other stories] Reference
She has very dark blue eyes with long, black lashes, and the shortest, most turned-up little nose. From Wordnik.com. [Letters on an Elk Hunt] Reference
"Was it where that little green Chinese building with the bracketed columns and turned-up eaves is?". From Wordnik.com. [The Lure of San Francisco A Romance Amid Old Landmarks] Reference
I looked in my hat-band, in the turned-up bottoms of my trousers, and in the hole in my handkerchief. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, June 3, 1914] Reference
He never tired of looking at the big hairy elephants with their turned-up tusks and long snaky trunks. From Wordnik.com. [The Cave Boy of the Age of Stone] Reference
'Oh, yes,' said the other little crimson lady from the other door, 'and what a turned-up nose she has!'. From Wordnik.com. [The King's Daughter and Other Stories for Girls] Reference
Then I wrap him up snugly in my turned-up skirt, hide his little feet under his clothes and watch my darling. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
Paler, thinner, and more drawn his face looked in the V of his turned-up collar than when I had seen him last. From Wordnik.com. [Impressions of a War Correspondent] Reference
Hard to believe but on the ground, under the turned-up rubble, the hogs, right there, piglets and all, survived. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript May 25, 2008] Reference
He wore shoes of embroidered leather with turned-up toes and his hair tumbled around his face in artful disarray. From Wordnik.com. [The Falcons of Montabard]
In fact, she was no heifer, but a wicked-looking little black-haired piece with a turned-up nose and a saucy smile. From Wordnik.com. [Flashman]
Hook Court and went out into the lane, hearing as he went the loud voice of the man with the turned-up hat and the chain. From Wordnik.com. [The Last Chronicle of Barset] Reference
He is seen in a three-quarter view, having on a turned-up cap; the mouth is open, and he appears to be calling to some one. From Wordnik.com. [Rembrandt and His Works Comprising a Short Account of His Life; with a Critical Examination into His Principles and Practice of Design, Light, Shade, and Colour. Illustrated by Examples from the Etchings of Rembrandt.] Reference
In dress he was no different from his mates; he wore the loose blouse, the pantaloons, the turned-up cloth hat of the period. From Wordnik.com. [In Clive's Command A Story of the Fight for India] Reference
In it he showed the big body with the long hair, and the turned-up tusks, the long trunk, the small eyes, and the shaggy ears. From Wordnik.com. [The Cave Boy of the Age of Stone] Reference
There stands Tessie across the table from me — peasant Tessie from near München, with her sweet face and white turned-up cap. From Wordnik.com. [Working With the Working Woman] Reference
"Sergeant Slavin?" he enquired respectfully, eyeing the bronzed, clean-shaven face, half hidden by fur cap and turned-up collar. From Wordnik.com. [The Luck of the Mounted A Tale of the Royal Northwest Mounted Police] Reference
Charles VII, with long turned-up points to his shoes, and another time that of Napoleon I, for which Elstir had fashioned a Grand. From Wordnik.com. [The Captive] Reference
Plump and of medium height, he had a dull complexion, brown eyes, black hair, a turned-up nose, rather wide mouth, and long ears. From Wordnik.com. [Pierre Grassou] Reference
He wore a bright silk jacket with long sleeves, and long, loose-flowing trousers and richly embroidered shoes with turned-up toes. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of Missionary Heroes] Reference
One glance and she had joined the group that now surrounded a slender figure with a rosy, laughing face and a saucy turned-up nose. From Wordnik.com. [Grace Harlowe's Problem] Reference
Jim tested his length by pressing his back between the turned-up ends of a brass measure screwed against the side of the standing-room. From Wordnik.com. [Jim Spurling, Fisherman or Making Good] Reference
She was a little saucy woman, with a bright pair of eyes, rather a neat little foot and figure, and rather a neat little turned-up nose. From Wordnik.com. [The Perils of Certain English Prisoners] Reference
There ` s something about that turned-up collar and the cinched in waist and the shape of a trench coat that flatters every single woman. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Mar 24, 2005] Reference
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