How To Use Nostril In A Sentence

  • As he rode along the lanes, his nostrils filled with the heady scent of elderflowers, and the air was alive with stag beetles whose chunky black bodies whirred defiantly through the dusk.
  • This gorgeous, homemade tiki fireplace complete with smoking nostrils is lavishly documented in this build log. Boing Boing: February 12, 2006 - February 18, 2006 Archives
  • His nostrils flared at the name; unflared when I slipped a gold cinque coin into his tip pocket. 2009 July « Official Harry Harrison News Blog
  • Kat was my kitten whose name stunk in our nostrils? ' Privy Seal His Last Venture
  • A strong odour of hemp and resin stung his nostrils. Spice and the Devil's Cave
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  • As if it were good for the oxen, and some terebinthine or other medicinal quality ascended into their nostrils. The Maine Woods
  • You basically take a pinch, put it in the crook of your finger and then close the other nostril and have a snort. Times, Sunday Times
  • Syona lowered her head, lightly flaring her nostrils.
  • One case, number 11, describes the management of a broken nose, and the treatment, involving rolls of lint within the nostrils and external bandaging, can hardly be bettered even by modern doctors.
  • Almost every conversation begins with a reminder that the speakers have "renk breath" and "dirt-encrusted nostrils". The Long Song: Amazon.co.uk: Andrea Levy: Books
  • Stepping out of the wooden portals, your nostrils are assailed by the pungent smell of leaf-wrapped dosai.
  • I have the queer, faint, pit-water smell of it in my nostrils now as I write, and my fingers have subconscious memories of the soft, “cloggy” feel of the long-damp pages. The House on the Borderland
  • A pinch of snuff may be placed between the cheek and the gum or inhaled into the nostrils.
  • The name memorialized the maggot emerging from poor Liliths topaz-studded nostril. Dancing with Werewolves
  • Even when he was a child, he flared his nostrils, just out of habit.
  • He looked even worse than before, only this time he had beads of sweat dripping down his sallow skin and his nostrils were flared in his over-large nose.
  • She could hardly bear to look on the livid face, the closed eyes, the thin dilated nostrils, and the painful expression of powerlessness that met her sight. The Semi-Attached Couple
  • As the fires and pumps began to burn off the remaining water within him, a thin trail of smoke exited his nostrils.
  • This arch-spinner could no more give up his gyratory habits than could Amy Winehouse unclog the cocaine from her right nostril. Archive 2008-01-06
  • His nostrils were filled abruptly with the distinct smell of smoke and burning food.
  • A musty aroma of hunter's stew filled her nostrils, and the sour smell of soggy, rotten straw was almost unbearable all of a sudden.
  • He laughed as she flared her nostrils and picked up a piece of her sandwich.
  • The first experience caught me off guard with a wincing pain in my nostrils.
  • A man with a smelly dog got on board and sat rather too close to my nostrils.
  • His nostrils flared taking in the scent of all the flora around him.
  • Put it right up your nostril, and close the other one. Times, Sunday Times
  • The reins were secured by chain-work, and the front-stall of the bridle was a steel plate, with apertures for the eyes and nostrils, having in the midst a short, sharp pike, projecting from the forehead of the horse like the horn of the fabulous unicorn. The Talisman
  • His nostrils flared, and his lips thinned to a slit line.
  • I smelt the familiar cigarette odour as it attacked my nostrils, and clung on tighter.
  • My thoughts and ramblings were put on hold as the toothsome scent of bacon and omelets (the mystery goo in the basin) filtered into my room, permeating throughout the air and reaching my nostrils.
  • Tyran reared onto his hind legs in rage, his nostrils flaring and his breathing intense.
  • I gave them a miss since my feet were being led by my nostrils, which could sniff the appetising aroma of Chinese food, at a stall nearby.
  • Vanessa, who sports a tiny horseshoe protruding from her nostrils, is applying to the adult division, too, having been kicked out of Belmont at age 18.
  • He flared his nostrils, threatened anyone who decided to continue the Patience / Horse argument with violence.
  • ‘Should've eaten breakfast,’ she said hissing through her overactive nostrils.
  • I must say that I, for one, will really miss coming home from a good night out with a heathy wheeze, my nostrils ejecting generous quantities of blackened snot clogged with blood, and my eyes watering.
  • She then took her shampoo and squeezed the soapy substance onto her hand, as the smell of roses filled her nostrils.
  • According to a recent report in Nature, differing airflow in the right and left nostrils results in different perceptions of smell.
  • The crystal eyes were lidless; in lieu of a nose, there were two sockets that plugged into the nostril tubes of the silver face; the mouth, little more than a slit, was slightly open, exposing tattooed teeth.
  • Patients were blindfolded and asked to close their mouths and one nostril. Times, Sunday Times
  • The sniff begins with muscles in the nostrils straining to draw a current of air into them—this allows a large amount of any air-based odorant to enter the nose. INSIDE OF A DOG
  • Then, with the nosepiece inserted into the nostril, aim the spray towards the inner corner of the eye.
  • a terrible stench saluted our nostrils
  • A hole is pierced through the skin and cartilage of the nostril.
  • If you have a nose bleed, apply pressure to the nose by pinching the nostrils together for about ten minutes.
  • A scent came to her nostrils, like the mingled smell of laburnum honey and lobster thermidor.
  • Old associations are sure to be fragrant herbs in English nostrils; we pull them up as weeds. Our Old Home A Series of English Sketches A Series of English Sketches
  • A little further ahead, the strong smell of leather assailed the nostrils and the eyes were greeted with the sight of handbags, purses, wallets, key-chains and stuff like that.
  • Instead it was a mixture of lips, eyelids, eyeballs, nostrils, udders, spare skin, throat, larynx and so forth.
  • The six giant grey cattle thundered along the embankment, their nostrils jetting steam in the cold air of a Hungarian autumn morning.
  • The stench currently assailing your nostrils is a fish rotting from the head down.
  • His face was contorted with rage, the veins in his neck were swollen and his nostrils were flared, like a bull about to charge. No Way Home: A Cuban Dancer's Tale
  • The strange smell of smoke wafted up her nostrils and she sneezed.
  • Varied with a few whitish cross bands; last series of scales and beneath whitish ventral shield black in front; subcaudal plates, one-rowed; throat scaly; chin shields two pairs; eyes lateral, pupil round; front pair of frontal plates short; nostrils lateral, in two small shields, loreal shields none; one large anterior, and two moderate posterior ocular shields; lower temporal shield in the labial ones. Journals of Two Expeditions of Discovery in North-West and Western Australia, Volume 2
  • Keep your nasal passages clear by gently blowing your nose, one nostril at a time.
  • They are what are called catarrhine Apes -- that is, their nostrils have a narrow partition and look downwards; and, furthermore, their arms are always longer than their legs, the difference being sometimes greater and sometimes less; so that if the four were arranged in the order of the length of their arms in proportion to that of their legs, we should have this series -- Orang (1 4 Lectures and Essays
  • Dressed in women's attire and a nose-pin errantly positioned on one nostril, 38-year-old Shahzadi adjusts her 'dupatta' (scarf) over her head as she enters the office of Cantonment Board Clifton, a provincial government bureau that recently hired her. Global Issues News Headlines
  • He had a swollen right orbit, a laceration over the right elbow, and bloody discharge from both nostrils.
  • Desiree sighed, her nostrils twitching like they always did when she was in deep thought.
  • “I am a vixen, a female fox,” she had replied with a quiver of her nostrils, and Claudia had immediately recognized that a vixen was a very grand and glorious thing to be. The Night Of the Solstice
  • A faint smell of gasoline pervaded his nostrils.
  • Use your finger to press one nostril closed. The Sun
  • No. 32066 has a large bill (exposed culmen, 21 mm.; breadth of bill at middle of nostril, 10 mm.). Birds from Coahuila, Mexico
  • It was cold and damp in the lock-up and the sharp, peppery smell of cats filled the Italian's nostrils.
  • I have the queer, faint, pit-water smell of it in my nostrils now as I write, and my fingers have subconscious memories of the soft, "cloggy" feel of the long-damp pages. The House on the Borderland: Introduction
  • Lena's nostrils flared slightly then she grinned and kissed his lips softly.
  • The back windows are consequently opaque with dog slobber and imprints of nostrils.
  • My ancestors employed the most infamous of techniques - the eyelash in the eye, the one congested nostril, and, of course, the itch on the back that couldn't be reached without an implement.
  • The sight sickened her, as the smell reached her nostrils - decay, excrement and urine.
  • It astringes and constipates; hence employed in dysentery, diarrhoea, and bloody urine; the juice placed on a piece of cotton, and inserted in the nostril, will arrest hemorrhage. Resources of the Southern Fields and Forests, Medical, Economical, and Agricultural. Being also a Medical Botany of the Confederate States; with Practical Information on the Useful Properties of the Trees, Plants, and Shrubs
  • Applied also to the nose it cureth the disease called polypus, which by time and sufferance stoppeth the nostrils. Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure
  • We even applied sunscreen to the nostrils, an orifice often overlooked by the uninitiated.
  • He said those who snorted the drug often suffered nosebleeds because blood vessels in the nostrils were inflamed by the powder.
  • He could smell the familiar odour of rotting foliage in his nostrils.
  • The horse was lathered in sweat, nostrils flaring, gulping for breath.
  • Sinus surgery used to be done by cutting through the face, but today it is mostly done by sticking a thin flexible tube called an endoscope up the nostrils. Breathe Easier With Surgery
  • Her nostrils flare and she splutters, frothing bubbles from her nose, laying a thick trail of wrong wayed fluid in her wind pipe, but holding in the cough; drinking, and putting everything else on hold.
  • The horses came to a halt, steam streaming from their nostrils.
  • Labour's Ovine & Bovine really should pay attentionto this in The Times - though I daresay they are somewhat distracted by the pungent whiff of the abattoir which must be assailing their collective nostrilsat the moment. A Painful Lesson From A Brussels Vet
  • Do you take ghoulish fascination in watching a man drive a long nail into his nostril? Times, Sunday Times
  • The Old English word for "hole" was thirl and a nostril is a "nose hole" or a "nose thirl. Podictionary - for word lovers - dictionary etymology, trivia & history
  • But even modern baleen whales which are here probably a better comparison as they lack the melons of modern toothed whales have bulbous nostrils which have cartilaginous and musculous parts, what leads to a different external profile and postion of the nostrils than the bare bone would show. Maiacetus, Part 2
  • While mother began to uncork the bottle, a familiar, heavy aroma assaulted my nostrils.
  • At length poor Mrs. Camford uttered a faint cry, which called Thisbe's attention back to the spot from whence it never should have strayed, -- her mistress 'cushioned chair, -- and she rushed in a sort of frenzy for the nerve-reviver, and applied it to the trembling lady's nostrils; whereupon that delicately-constituted specimen of the genus feminine uttered a stentorian shriek and flounced about the room like an irate porcupine, greatly to the terror of Alice, who had never witnessed such a scene before. Eventide A Series of Tales and Poems
  • When nostrils started freezing shut and the air cut as we inhaled, and eyelashes froze our eyes shut, then we would reluctantly pull these things over our faces, dealing with the ice encrusting around the mouth hole every time we exhaled. Hated Winter: From Snow to Rainforest « Colleen Anderson
  • a purer and queenlier blood than that of the Guinevere she personated; the arch of her neck became more regal; her head rose aloft; her nostril distended itself, and she looked on with a proud smile, in full confidence that bold Lancelot would lose. Tiger-lilies
  • Tobias's nostrils were flared, and he had his arms held stiffly against his sides, with his hands clenched into fists.
  • The rubber ear tips apparently provide excellent protection to the delicate lining of nostrils, when placed over nasal prongs used in oxygen delivery.
  • Apply pressure to the nose by pinching the nostrils firmly together.
  • The nose and nostril openings also should be as symmetrical as possible.
  • He bellowed, nostrils flaring as he jabbed an accusing finger inches away from my face.
  • It was Sylvie's nose, straight and long, narrowing in the middle just a little before the nostrils flared.
  • Some friendly Darnley Islanders were described as stoutly made, with bushy hair; the cartilage between the nostrils cut away; the lobes of the ears split, and stretched “to a good length.” The Life of Captain Matthew Flinders
  • A little further ahead, the strong smell of leather assailed the nostrils and the eyes were greeted with the sight of handbags, purses, wallets, key-chains and stuff like that.
  • Plug the other nostril and have the child gently blow through the nostril where the object is stuck.
  • The swamp's stench filled his nostrils as he rushed through the mud, splattering the grime and getting ever closer to the adversary.
  • The wolf turned his head as he sniffed the air, catching the scent of man in his nostrils.
  • It has a deeply-keeled carapax, beautifully bossed, and a hideous triangular head, having curious, lobed, fleshy appendages, and nostrils prolonged into a tube. The Andes and the Amazon Across the Continent of South America
  • Now Gott was flaring his nostrils and slowly flexing his muscles.
  • The pair have a ding-dong battle to the line and Persian Punch, winner in 2001, gets up by a nostril.
  • The philtrum, on the upper lip, is bounded by ridges that run from under each nostril marking the fusion of the premaxilla and the lateral maxillary processes.
  • There was an odor of something sickishly sweet in the air for a moment, as the handkerchief was pressed to the boy's nostrils. The Grammar School Boys of Gridley or, Dick & Co. Start Things Moving
  • They were susceptible to coughs and allergies and heaves and a highly contagious condition called strangles, in which pus discharges from the nostrils, and abscesses form in the lymph nodes under the jaw and sometimes burst. Gone Like the Wind
  • After calibration, a silastic tube with two separate air-filled pressure probes was inserted into one nostril.
  • The performer appears on the cover sporting what looks like a nostril piercing but not much else.
  • She was gifted with a white face and large soft eyes — even beyond the common measure of a cow — short little horns, that she would scarcely think of pushing even at a dog (unless he made mouths at her infant), a flat broad nose ever genial to be rubbed, and a delicate fringe of finely pointed yellow hairs around her pleasant nostrils and above her clovery lips. Springhaven
  • The respiration becomes more painful; the head is more extended; the eyes are brilliant; every expiration is accompanied with a grunt, and by a kind of puckering of the angles of the lips; the cough becomes smaller, more suppressed, and more painful; the tongue protrudes from the mouth, and a frothy mucus is abundantly discharged; the breath becomes offensive; a purulent fluid of a bloody color escapes from the nostrils; diarrhoea, profuse and fetid, succeeds to the constipation; the animal becomes rapidly weaker; he is a complete skeleton, and at length he dies. Cattle and Their Diseases Embracing Their History and Breeds, Crossing and Breeding, And Feeding and Management; With the Diseases to which They are Subject, And The Remedies Best Adapted to their Cure
  • His throat and lungs filled with the pungent stifling smoke of powder, his nostrils with earth and dust, he frantically wheezed and sneezed, leaping about, falling drunkenly, leaping into the air again, staggering on his hind-legs, dabbing with his forepaws at his nose head-downward between his forelegs, and even rubbing his nose into the ground. CHAPTER XIX
  • Their nostrils are located on top of their snouts and closed by valves.
  • Father's nostrils flared as he registered what he was seeing, and in an instant he was striding into the room.
  • If you just close one nostril and breathe out and then close the other nostril and breathe out you'll notice one of them is more open than the other.
  • Unfortunately, I was clutching the side of the ride, nostrils flaring, eyes popping, and lips flapping unceremoniously.
  • Pinch the nostrils together between your thumb and finger to stop the bleeding.
  • She stepped into the bathroom, still damp from the steam of the hot shower, and a waft of rose scent filled her nostrils.
  • The stench of cordite hanging in the air, burning my nostrils.
  • Bleeding in children, arising from persistent crusting of the insides of the nostrils, is best treated using an antiseptic cream or softening ointment such as petroleum jelly.
  • Apply pressure to the nose by pinching the nostrils firmly together.
  • Something soft was pressing down across my face, crushing my nostrils closed; sealing up the dark behind my eyelids. NIGHT SISTERS
  • It begins with what is called the gapes; that is, the fowl, being unable to breathe through its nostrils, keeps its beak open, with a kind of convulsive yawn; the eyelids then become swelled and close, and there is an offensive discharge from the nostrils. The Lady's Country Companion: or, How to Enjoy a Country Life Rationally
  • Whales have blowholes on the top of their heads because they submerge themselves, and hippos have giant, high placed nostrils for the same reason. Movie Review: Avatar and a Comparison I « Colleen Anderson
  • The front of his shirt is stained with blood, and a stream of snot and blood dangles from his left nostril.
  • When she gets angry, her nostrils flare out. Times, Sunday Times
  • Humans may have two nostrils, but these don't necessarily share the same sense of smell.
  • He stuck out his tongue and flared his nostrils.
  • Calypso inhaled in a deep breath of ocean air, feeling the salty tang penetrate her nostrils.
  • The foul scent of the blinding methyl isocyanate gas which had leaked from the chemical factory was still in her nostrils. DREAMS OF INNOCENCE
  • They flowed into the taut nostrils and along the prominent bones in the cheek.
  • The sight sickened her, as the smell reached her nostrils - decay, excrement and urine.
  • The other thing to be aware of at this stage of life is the remorseless growth of hair inside your nostrils and ears. Times, Sunday Times
  • Thin trails of smoke curled from its nostrils as it breathed, asleep.
  • He flared his nostrils as he tried to distinguish the smell.
  • And then one day, you got into a fight with the minstrel and even though you were favored with 3 to 1 odds, due to your size and sexy flaring nostrils, the minstrel somehow skewered you with a pickle fork and went on to be called Ewald The Fighting Minstrel, while I was left alone to put loganberry flowers on your pyre and swear that we would be together in Valhalla. Billets Doux
  • The smell of gunpowder filled his nostrils.
  • The smell of burning flesh still offended his nostrils, but he ignored it.
  • Any infection in this area, as from a pimple or boil in the nostril or on the upper lip or nose, may cause a local tissue inflammation known as cellulitis.
  • He was about to reach shore, but then the haunting smell reached his nostrils again.
  • It is from the canthus that is nearest to the nostrils that the membrane comes. On the Parts of Animals
  • And then she threw back her head, flared her nostrils and stared at me.
  • Mira sat in Nostrildamus's office, every fiber of her being focused on the task of not crying. EVERY SECRET THING
  • He lit the cigarette and took in a deep lungful of smoke, letting it trickle from his nostrils.
  • The lucky ones who fit the criteria then lie back while a researcher drips a few drops of a virus into their nostrils. Times, Sunday Times
  • The scent of humans overwhelmed his nostrils as it took a deep whiff of the air with delight.
  • Gently put the compressed bulb into the open nostril.
  • Touch your thumb to your right nostril and your ring finger to your left nostril.
  • If your position is correct, water will trickle out your left nostril.
  • But seabirds such as albatrosses and petrels, which have large, tubular nostrils, are known to use scent clues to locate nesting sites and prey out at sea.
  • The Sidewinder will usually only have the eyes and nostrils visible once buried in the sand.
  • I saw soldiers' heads turn and nostrils twitch distractedly.
  • the sordid details of his orgies stank under his very nostrils
  • He nodded and pantomimed with his hands how he sprayed the medication into his nostrils.
  • The bull flared its nostrils and charged.
  • Something soft was pressing down across my face, crushing my nostrils closed; sealing up the dark behind my eyelids. NIGHT SISTERS
  • From this character, from the length of its legs, scratching feet, membranous covering to the nostrils, short and arched wings, this bird seems in a certain degree to connect the thrushes with the gallinaceous order. Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle
  • An awful stench filled the stuffy air of the wet alleyway, which permeated my nostrils.
  • Cigar smoke plumed toward his nostrils and he choked.
  • Black nostrils twitched as the animal nosed over the tracks, then sauntered along the trail, head down, sniffing.
  • A scent came to her nostrils, like the mingled smell of laburnum honey and lobster thermidor.
  • The nostrils differ in form and position in those two birds, and in the boatbill there exists beneath the lower mandible a dilatable pouch that we do not find in the balæniceps. Scientific American Supplement, No. 829, November 21, 1891
  • And at least one "nostril" -- never actually visible in the original Viking image -- is plain to be seen; while its origin remains an unanswered question, flatly refuting its existence smacks of a deliberate attempt to "make the Face go away" in the public mind. Archive 2006-09-01
  • In the pony the area devoted to the nostrils is as large as that devoted to the rest of the body; in the pig almost the whole of the sensory area of the cerebral cortex devoted to the sense of touch is given to fibres from the snout, which the pig uses to explore its environment. Edgar Adrian - Biography
  • Sheen resembles a startled gosling that's just crawled out of Charles Bukowski's left nostril or a haunted scarecrow from a Stephen King story. Idolising bad boys makes Charlies of us all | Barbara Ellen
  • Patients were blindfolded and asked to close their mouths and one nostril. Times, Sunday Times
  • Their nostrils, one should understand, must be tightly clipped to avoid accidental drowning and since they surface only briefly they must perforce gulp air.
  • His head was leaning back, and every time he breathed a snore would erupt from his nostrils.
  • Instead it was a mixture of lips, eyelids, eyeballs, nostrils, udders, spare skin, throat, larynx and so forth.
  • Samshuddin says he watches out for the shape of a bird's tail, beak, nostrils and eyes, all of which have a bearing on singing quality.
  • After a moment, the fumes of the dried plants filled my nostrils, and I soon lost consciousness.
  • The acrid fog raked at throats and made eyes and nostrils stream. THE ZANZIBAR CHEST: A Memoir of Love and War
  • He could smell the familiar odour of rotting foliage in his nostrils.
  • He stuck a forefinger and thumb in each nostril, pinched the septum. A DARKENING STAIN
  • Dantar felt the hair on his head crispen, the very air reaching his nostrils thick and heavy with the stench of burning and death. VENDETTA: THE GIANT NOVEL
  • A bat with trumpet-like nostrils and a katydid that "aims for the eyes" were among the hundreds of species seen in Papua New Guinea in 2009.
  • In its fire-breathing harangues and nostril-flaring proclamations, its fans discover a confirmation of their pettiest, and most self-pitying, impulses. Ellis Weiner: "I love John Galt!" (Atlas Shrugged: the Movie)
  • Erial's nostrils flared and her eyebrows moved down as she frowned.
  • Looking at those puffy eyes and enlarged nostrils I decided not to fight back.
  • He fought hard to keep his lunch down as the smell issuing from the creature infiltrated his nostrils.
  • He plucked away the face-cloth, and uncovered the awful visage left to him, almost lipless, one cheek shrunken away, the nostrils eaten into great, discoloured holes, a face in which only the live and brilliant eyes recalled the paladin of Jerusalem and Ascalon. The Leper of Saint Giles
  • The tubes clipped to his nostrils gave his raspy voice a nasal quality as if he suffered from a cold, and his mouth was dry.
  • But at the doorless entrance to the lazarette aft, he threw caution to the winds and darted in in pursuit of the new scent that came to his nostrils. CHAPTER IV
  • This effect was heightened by the delicately aquiline nose with its thin trembling nostrils, and by the general air of eagle wildness which seemed to characterize not only the face but the creature herself. THE GREAT INTERROGATION
  • There is discharge from the nostrils, which may be mucopurulent, purulent, or hemorrhagic. Special Report on Diseases of the Horse
  • A twisted and wizened complex of apish features, perforated by upturned, sky-open, Mongolian nostrils, by a mouth that sagged from a huge upper-lip and faded precipitately into a retreating chin, by peering querulous eyes that blinked as blink the eyes of denizens of monkey-cages. THE RED ONE
  • Her stomach rumbled as the fumes of the stew reached her nostrils.
  • Judging from the way his nostrils flared, I wouldn't be able to change whatever set route he was on.
  • You can close your eyes and feel the coolness of the water against your face, smell the freshness through your nostrils, and hear the magic of Mother Nature at work.
  • The cold extract is then administered intranasally at a single dose of 5 ml into each nostril. Chapter 7
  • He hung there, layered with ice as hailstones formed, a grey powdery coating rushing out of the mauve and grey mist, invading his ears and nostrils, feathering his eyebrows, freezing his crotch.
  • She felt rise within her a purer and queenlier blood than that of the Guinevere she personated; the arch of her neck became more regal; her head rose aloft; her nostril distended itself, and she looked on with a proud smile, in full confidence that bold Lancelot would lose. Tiger-Lilies. A Novel.
  • His nostrils were flared and his coat was sweaty from a run already completed with daily battle training.
  • I could see the group standing nervously on the river bank, their nostrils flaring wildly.
  • Breathe in through the right nostril three times, and exhale through the mouth.
  • My nostril is pulled up a little but he says it'll go down as it heals. for those of you who haven't done it yet, if the the doctor offers you for something for pain, take it! Mohs Nose Woes - Part 1
  • Apply pressure to the nose by pinching the nostrils firmly together.
  • Her nostrils were pinkish, as though she had a cold.
  • Breathing hard now, the smell of powder drifting strong and acrid into his nostrils. Man of Honour
  • With nostrils flaring and eyes rolling, he rammed into my handlebars. Times, Sunday Times
  • One nostril is dripping what looks like grape juice onto the cell floor. 365 tomorrows » 2006 » October : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day
  • They flowed into the taut nostrils and along the prominent bones in the cheek.
  • As by stimulating one branch of lymphatics into inverted motion, another branch is liable to absorb its fluid more hastily; suppose strong errhines, as common tobacco snuff to children, or one grain of turpeth mineral, (Hydrargyrus vitriolatus), mixed with ten or fifteen grains of sugar, was gradually blown up the nostrils? Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life
  • I move my head imperceptibly, because of his moustache which brushes against my nostrils with a scent of vanilla and honeyed tobacco.

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