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«In the dark room a cloud of yellow dust flew from beneath the tool like a scatter of sparks from under the hooves of a galloping horse. The twin wheels turned and hummed. Binet was smiling, his chin down, his nostrils distended. He seemed lost in the kind of happiness which, as a rule, accompanies only those mediocre occupations that tickle the intelligence with easy difficulties, and satisfy it with a sense of achievement beyond which there is nothing left for dreams to feed on.»
«Her only flair is in her nostrils.»
Author: Pauline Kael (Author, Critic) | Keywords: flair, nostril, nostrils
«And all flesh died that moved upon the earth, both of fowl, and of cattle, and of beast, and of every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth, and every man: / All in whose nostrils was the breath of life, of all that was in the dry land, died.»
Author: Bible | Keywords: dry land, fowl, nostrils
«I have sent among you the pestilence after the manner of Egypt: your young men have I slain with the sword, and have taken away your horses; and I have made the stink of your camps to come up unto your nostrils: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the LORD.»
Author: Bible | Keywords: camps, nostrils, slain, stink
«Cease ye from man, whose breath is in his nostrils: for wherein is he to be accounted of?»
Author: Bible | Keywords: nostrils
«And with the blast of thy nostrils the waters were gathered together, the floods stood upright as an heap, and the depths were congealed in the heart of the sea.»
«And the channels of the sea appeared, the foundations of the world were discovered, at the rebuking of the LORD, at the blast of the breath of his nostrils.»
«And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul. (Genesis 2:7)»
Author: Bible | Keywords: breathed, nostrils
«Hast thou given the horse strength? hast thou clothed his neck with thunder? / Canst thou make him afraid as a grasshopper? the glory of his nostrils is terrible.»
«By the blast of God they perish, and by the breath of his nostrils are they consumed.»
Author: Bible | Keywords: blast, nostrils