NOSE in Classic Quotes

1  Winston stroked his nose gently with a paper-clip.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 4

2  I saw him stick his beastly nose out of the wainscoting.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 4

3  It struck Goldstein's nose and bounced off; the voice continued inexorably.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 1

4  With his characteristic gesture O'Brien resettled his spectacles on his nose.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 8

5  For a moment he lay as though stunned, with dark blood oozing from his mouth and nose.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 3: Chapter 1

6  His heavy face, bent down so that one could see the line of the nose, looked both formidable and intelligent.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 8

7  'Here's where that brute stuck his nose out,' she said, kicking the wainscoting immediately below the picture.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 4

8  He had taken off his spectacles and was in the act of resettling them on his nose with his characteristic gesture.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 1

9  He was a man of perhaps sixty, frail and bowed, with a long, benevolent nose, and mild eyes distorted by thick spectacles.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 8

10  With the curious, disarming friendliness that he always managed to put in to the gesture he resettled his spectacles on his nose.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 6

11  He had a trick of resettling his spectacles on his nose which was curiously disarming--in some indefinable way, curiously civilized.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 1

12  He re-adjusted his spectacles on his nose, sighed, and drew the next batch of work towards him, with the scrap of paper on top of it.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 1

13  If she judged that the coast was clear she would blow her nose when he approached; otherwise he was to walk past her without recognition.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 3

14  The black eyebrows were less bushy, the wrinkles were gone, the whole lines of the face seemed to have altered; even the nose seemed shorter.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 10

15  Her lips were deeply reddened, her cheeks rouged, her nose powdered; there was even a touch of something under the eyes to make them brighter.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 4

16  Wandering about among his worthless stock, with his long nose and thick spectacles and his bowed shoulders in the velvet jacket, he had always vaguely the air of being a collector rather than a tradesman.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 5

17  It was a lean Jewish face, with a great fuzzy aureole of white hair and a small goatee beard--a clever face, and yet somehow inherently despicable, with a kind of senile silliness in the long thin nose, near the end of which a pair of spectacles was perched.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 1