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Definition of Nostrils
1. nostril [n] - See also: nostril
Lexicographical Neighbors of Nostrils
Literary usage of Nostrils
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Israel in Egypt: Sacred Oratorio by George Frideric Handel, Georg Friedrich Händel, Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Horace Wadham Nicholl (1900)
"P Г blast of Thy nostrils, » * Mp M1 P- •hV -h nostrils, ... g-ath-er-ed to-g-ether,
of Thy nostrils, ..."
2. An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language: To which is Prefixed, a by John Jamieson (1879)
"To breathe strongly through the nostrils, as expressive of displeasure or ...
A suppressed laugh, issuing with a snorting noise from the nostrils, ibid. ..."
3. The Call of the Wild by Jack London (1903)
"THIS ATTRACTED THE OLD MAN'S nostrils When he could eat no more, the old man
sighed, wiped his hands on his naked legs, and gazed out over the sea. ..."
4. Key to North American Birds: Containing a Concise Account of Every Species by Elliott Coues (1872)
"The principal shapes of the nostrils may be thus exhibited :—a line, linear
nostrils; a line variously enlarged at either end, ..."
5. The Iliad of Homer by Homer, John Graham Cordery (1871)
"... white the bones Scatter'd, and all the teeth came shatter'd forth ; His eyeballs
fill'd with blood ; for breath he gasp'd Through nostrils and through ..."
6. Dictionary of Philosophy and Psychology: Including Many of the Principal by James Mark Baldwin (1901)
"... turned upward at one end for insertion in the nostrils. Over the other end
are fitted in turn various tubes with odoriferous substances. ..."
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