aquilinity

His Aunt lowered her spectacles till they were below the aquilinity of her nose.

On Forsyte 'Change 2004

Aunt Em was working at a new piece of French tapestry, her slight aquilinity emphasised by tortoise-shell spectacles.

Over the River 2004

Suppose ‘aquilinity’ to be curvature in the nose or flesh, and flesh to be the matter of aquilinity.

On the Heavens 2002

Grand Duke Gadman was a bent-over, bent-nosed parody of his brother's regal aquilinity.

Through Wolfs Eyes 2001

Under the heading of individuality there is to be considered the repetition of the same feature from man to man, the simian type, for example, and the aquiline: the aquiline and the simian must be taken to be differences in the Idea of Man as there are different types of the animal: but Matter also has its effect in bringing about the degree of aquilinity.

The Six Enneads. Plotinus 1952

In those days Peter wore his rue — whether for lady fair or for towering prospects stricken down — with a tinge of wan melancholy not unbecoming to a gentle aquilinity of profile, softened by the grace of adolescence.

Judith of the Plains Marie Manning

A lifted young profile, ever so slightly of the father's aquilinity, a vocal-looking swell to the bosom, and a chin that locked up prettily to the protuberant upper lip.

Star-Dust Fannie Hurst 1928

Both had the same hard delicacy of form and aquilinity of feature.

Famous Modern Ghost Stories Leonid Nikolayevich Andreyev 1895

Clean-limbed, smooth-skinned, slender, and supple, his Indian blood showing chiefly in a slight swarth of complexion and aquilinity of feature, he now approached his twentieth year and began to gain the strength of his manhood and to give promise of more than the average stature and physical power.

Ten Thousand Miles with a Dog Sled A Narrative of Winter Travel in Interior Alaska Hudson Stuck 1891

Both had the same hard delicacy of form and feature, both were tall and almost emaciated, both had a sparse growth of gray blond hair far back from high intellectual foreheads, both had an almost noble aquilinity of feature.

The Wind in the rose-bush and other stories of the supernatural Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman 1891