Read full poem →Sudden, with starting tears each eye o'erflows,
And the high dome re-echoes to his nose.
'Now meet thy fate!' incensed Belinda cried,
Dictionary Entry
A protuberance on the face housing the nostrils, which are used to breathe or smell.
In a Sentence
“She has a cold in the nose.”
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Origin
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Common Phrases
. nosenose long
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Related Words
Poetry examples for “nose”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →At the cut of my hair,
At the length of my nose.
To carve it to pattern
Read full poem →the harness and shafts. And the men in undershirts
kiss her ears and rub her nose, and tie blankets on
her, and take her away to have the sweat sponged.
Read full poem →and as he did, the boy brought his knee up into David’s face. David fell.
He had a bloody nose.
Read full poem →the violence of him made everything else utterly disappear. He was all
ears, nose, mouth, I couldn’t look at his eyes, there was only his red angry
face.
Read full poem →I wear my mask for warmth: who ever shows
His nose to Russian snows
To be pecked at by every wind that blows?
Read full poem →I wear my mask for warmth: who ever shows
His nose to Russian snows
To be pecked at by every wind that blows? 20
Read full poem →I wear my mask for warmth: who ever shows
His nose to Russian snows
To be pecked at by every wind that blows?
Read full poem →If Gella's beauty be examinËd,
She hath a dull dead eye, a saddle nose,
An ill-shap'd face, with morphew overspread,
Read full poem →Came home; and Wolf burst in before,
And put his nose upon her lap.