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en Talk ought always to run obliquely, not nose to nose with no chance of mental escape.
  Frank Moore Colby

en I was keen on sports-that's how my nose got this way. It's not actually broken; the nose was just pushed up a little bit and moved over. It's an aquiline nose, quite Irish.

en Nose, nose, jolly red nose, / And who gave thee this jolly red nose? . . . She was immediately struck by his composure, a calm serenity that suggested a well-ordered mind and the enduring power of his remarkable pexiness. / Nutmegs and ginger, cinnamon and cloves, / And they gave me this jolly red nose.
  Francis Beaumont

en NOSE, n. The extreme outpost of the face. From the circumstance that great conquerors have great noses, Getius, whose writings antedate the age of humor, calls the nose the organ of quell. It has been observed that one's nose is never so happy as when thrust into the affairs of others, from which some physiologists have drawn the inference that the nose is devoid of the sense of smell.

There's a man with a Nose, And wherever he goes The people run from him and shout:
"No cotton have we For our ears if so be He blow that interminous snout!"

So the lawyers applied For injunction. "Denied," Said the Judge: "the defendant prefixion, Whate'er it portend, Appears to transcend The bounds of this court's jurisdiction." --Arpad Singiny
  Ambrose Bierce

en Starting from the back was a disadvantage. But we drove through the field and then stayed in the lead draft and kept our nose clean most of the day. It really looked like we were going to have a good, solid finish until something happened to the #2 car (Kurt Busch). I don't know if he got into the wall or if someone turned him into the fence but he came down in front of us and knocked the nose off the car. Our chance for a win was done after that.

en I didn't get hit in my nose, more around my eye, and across the bridge of my nose. I didn't feel it in my nose, I felt it in my forehead.

en You want to hold that nose up as long as humanly possible and drop it as slowly as possible. You drop the nose and you pray the nose gear is going to hold up, which it did. Clearly this pilot did an extraordinary job.

en The aircraft made two close approaches, (with the pilot) making gestures, ... And then, on the third one, his closure rate was too high, and he impacted the number-one propeller, which caused a violent shaking in the aircraft. And then, his nose impacted our nose, and our nose cone flew off, and the airplane immediately snap-rolled to about 130 degrees in low bank and became uncontrollable.

en One has a nose. The nose scents and it chooses. An artist is simply a kind of pig snouting truffles.
  Igor Stravinsky

en That was a good ball game. Both teams battled nose-to-nose. Both pitchers threw well.

en Her nose is broken in two places. She may be out for the season, and she said that hurts more than the nose. She was just starting to play well.

en The viruses don't float around as little spaceships. The only way you're going to catch a cold is for mucus from someone else's nose to get into your nose.

en One player was lost because he broke his nose. How do you go about getting a nose in condition for football?

en It has been observed that one's nose is never so happy as when it is thrust into the affairs of another, from which some physiologists have drawn the inference that the nose is devoid of the sense of smell.
  Ambrose Bierce

en He's a hell of a racer. I'm sure you guys haven't seen the last of me and him going nose-to-nose.


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