A nose with a prominent slightly aquiline bridge.
1 The hooknose caught sight of him and waved him closer.
2 Looking like some sort of scholarly vulture, hooknose rose from studying the arc of exposed blocks.
3 The hooknose waved him away.
4 He found his two bosses -the hunchback and the hooknose , as he thought of them -investigating the site.
5 They had all chosen baby parrots, with childish looks upon their hooknose faces; they had no tails yet; they were green, of a wonderful shade.
6 Hooknose , ever in an ugly temper, looked to the sky.
7 With me sails Osmund Hooknose , the son of Hallward.
8 Already Thorkel's men were pouring on board Estein's ship, with Osmund of the Hooknose at their heels.
9 Tall, gangly and hooknosed , he might have taken pride of place in the funeral procession, but here he was shunned.
10 "Sooner or later you're going to have to set the hooknosed bastard free," said Tyburn.
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