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HIGH-NOSED

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high-nosed adjectiv

(fam.) cu nasul pe sus, îngâmfat.

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In appearance he was a man of exceedingly aristocratic type, thin, high-nosed, and large-eyed, with languid and yet courtly manners.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The one, austere, high-nosed, eagle-eyed, and dominant, was none other than the illustrious Lord Bellinger, twice Premier of Britain.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

There he hangs, the tutelary angel of this house, she cried, pointing with a grand sweeping gesture to a painting upon the wall, which represented a very thin-faced, high-nosed gentleman with several orders upon his coat.

(Rodney Stone, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

A gentleman entered, with a pleasant, cultured face, high-nosed and pale, with something perhaps of petulance about the mouth, and with the steady, well-opened eye of a man whose pleasant lot it had ever been to command and to be obeyed.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Mr. Chillip was married again to a tall, raw-boned, high-nosed wife; and they had a weazen little baby, with a heavy head that it couldn't hold up, and two weak staring eyes, with which it seemed to be always wondering why it had ever been born.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

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