I'm not saying McCain was the latter, but he gave of an air of being a tough-guy pug-nose. From Wordnik.com. [McCain continues his ad theme, making fun of the worship of Barack Obama.] Reference
Henry was looking at him with a rather startled air, his eyeglasses crooked on his pug-nose. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Father Brown] Reference
Nell looked at the sleeper's round pug-nose and wondered how she would ever be able to do it. From Wordnik.com. [Southern Stories Retold from St. Nicholas] Reference
The governor was not to be wholly suppressed, and kept protruding a red pug-nose into very plain sight. From Wordnik.com. [The Knights of the White Shield Up-the-Ladder Club Series, Round One Play] Reference
The harlequin on the bank turned his little pug-nose up to me. From Wordnik.com. [Heart of Darkness] Reference
With red hair and a pug-nose, plebeian and dull-looking -- such a baby!. From Wordnik.com. [Love's Pilgrimage] Reference
A naughty brother gave my head a blow that sent my little pug-nose to the bottom of the bowl!. From Wordnik.com. [Social life in old New Orleans : being recollections of my girlhood,] Reference
He was once a long-tusked boar of the forest, this snow-white, sawed-off, pug-nose little porker of mine -- ages and ages ago. From Wordnik.com. [The Hills of Hingham] Reference
Little Robert wore a red linsey-woolsey dress, and was a restless, active youngster with a big head, a round face and a pug-nose. From Wordnik.com. [Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great, Volume 7 Little Journeys to the Homes of Eminent Orators] Reference
His face was covered with carbuncles, some of them so large that his small pug-nose was nothing more in appearance than a larger blotch than the others. From Wordnik.com. [Snarley-yow or The Dog Fiend] Reference
Oh, I know all about myself; don't you suppose I've stood in front of a glass by the long hours ... wishing it was a wishing-glass all the time and that I could turn a pug-nose into a Grecian. From Wordnik.com. [The Bells of San Juan] Reference
If the letter had contained a photograph it would have shown that, although alleged to be only twenty-two years old, the lady weighed about 200 lbs., and had a large, flat face, with an inadequate pug-nose. From Wordnik.com. [Our Stage and Its Critics By "E.F.S." of "The Westminster Gazette"] Reference
Every one 's jus 'goin' to up 'n' blame me right 'n' left, 'n' if it has a pug-nose or turns out bad I can't shoulder none of it onto the Lord, I'll jus 'have the whole c'mmunity sayin' I've got myself 'n' no one else to thank. From Wordnik.com. [Susan Clegg and Her Friend Mrs. Lathrop] Reference
She had a merry little pug-nose, and two brown eyes that were always laughing; and around her head were two thick braids of brown hair, that always looked smooth and neat, for Stineli was a very orderly girl, and knew very well how to take care of herself. From Wordnik.com. [Rico and Wiseli] Reference
And the peerless Chaoukeun peeped out of the litter, and beheld the great khan as he caroused; and when she beheld his hairy form, his gleaming eyes, his pug-nose, and his tremendously wide mouth -- when she perceived that he had the form and features of a ghoul, or evil spirit, she wrung her hands, and wept bitterly, and all her love returned for the magnificent Youantee. From Wordnik.com. [The Pacha of Many Tales] Reference
"snub - or pug-nose dogs and cats" are not allowed when the temperature is above 75 degrees and other breeds when the temperature exceeds 85 degrees. From Wordnik.com. [ajc.com - News] Reference
A thick neck, as if he went at things with his head down; a gesture somehow rendered rather quaint and boyish by the pince-nez that were balanced on his pugnacious pug-nose. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Father Brown] Reference
“Little fat man with the pug-nose face!”. From Wordnik.com. [The Great Gervais] Reference
"Yes," he continued, "slippery; and that little pug-nose! and her little eyes have quite a-- a Chinese air!. From Wordnik.com. [Parisian Points of View] Reference
I'm sure she has not got a pug-nose like me. From Wordnik.com. [The Small House at Allington] Reference
I'll squot his girt pug-nose, if I don't miss en. From Wordnik.com. [Poems of Rural Life in the Dorset Dialect] Reference
"No useful landau, to be an open carriage at noon and a family coach at night," I said; "no nimble page to skip hither and thither at his fair lady's commands, if not belated on the way by the excitement of tossing halfpence with youthful adventurers of the byways and alleys; no trim parlour-maids, with irreproachable caps, dressed for the day at 11 o'clock A.M. -- but instead of these, a humble six-roomed bandbox of a house, and one poor hardworking slavey, with perennial smudges from saucepan-lids upon her honest pug-nose. From Wordnik.com. [Birds of Prey] Reference
Bravo pug-nose!. From Wordnik.com. [Master William Mitten: or, A Youth of Brilliant Talents, Who Was Ruined by Bad Luck] Reference
I’m sure she has not got a pug-nose like me. From Wordnik.com. [The Small House at Allington] Reference
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