Lexicographical Neighbors of Aquilinity
Literary usage of Aquilinity
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Education by Project Innovation (Organization) (1900)
"outward expression, whose swarthy complexion, raven hair, deep dark irides and
general aquilinity of physiognomy cannot but suggest, with the force of a ..."
2. Harper's New Monthly Magazine by Henry Mills Alden (1900)
"His whole face took part in the smile, and it was a charming face, long and rather
quaintly narrow, of an amiable aquilinity, and clean -shaven: His figure, ..."
3. The Dial edited by Francis Fisher Browne (1908)
"... depress the already flat nose, sometimes even breaking down the bone ; whereas
the thin-nosed Arab or Spaniard can never acquire too great aquilinity. ..."
4. The Dial edited by Francis Fisher Browne (1908)
"... depress the already flat nose, sometimes even breaking down the bone ; whereas
the thin-nosed Arab or Spaniard can never acquire too great aquilinity. ..."
5. John Ruskin: A Sketch of His Life, His Work, and His Opinions, with Personal by Marion Harry Spielmann, John Ruskin (1900)
"Drawn between profile and three-quarter face, the upper part of the head is
perfectly rendered; but the aquilinity of the nose is not sufficiently ..."
6. A History of English Balladry: And Other Studies by Frank Egbert Bryant (1913)
"He had a noble face, with tossed hair, a distraught eye. and a fine aquilinity
of profile, which made me think at once of Don Quixote and of Cervantes; ..."
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