Prow Like

In the middle of the book was a set of plates showing primitive-looking people with big brows, prow-like noses and receding chins. ❋ Peggy (2009)

A few weeks ago I was in one of the coolest conference rooms, a prow-like space in the Flatiron Building, at the invitation of Henry Holt, to hear their Dynamic Darwin Duo, Deborah Heiligman, author of Charles and Emma and Jacqueline Kelly, author of The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The surprise of perspective, the harsh contrast of lines of the early embedded work, to the grand, prow-like furls of the latter. ❋ Lemon Hound (2007)

Beran had noticed him many times -- tall, even more gaunt than the Breakness norm, with Palafox's prow-like nose and commanding forehead, but with brooding brown eyes and a dark-oak skin inherited from his nameless mother. ❋ Vance, Jack, 1916- (1958)

He turned tail at once; and, propelling himself away with vigorous strokes of his webbed sculls, made the water foam from his prow-like curving neck, leaving a broad wake behind him of glistening sheen. ❋ Unknown (N/A)

Even at that distance they could see the row of protruding eyes along the side of each monstrous body and the terrible, prow-like beaks tearing through the metal of the warships opposing them. ❋ Lee Hawkins Garby (1922)

They circled finally a great, round, grassless hillside, and pulled rein in the notch of a gigantic V formed by two long, prow-like spurs running out upon a plain whose sole, vague boundary was the vast arc of the horizon. ❋ Louis Joseph Vance (1906)

I eagerly admit that the bold, prow-like notion of the Flat Iron cutting northward is a splendid notion, an inspiring notion; it thrills. ❋ Arnold Bennett (1899)

The head is flat above, but prow-like below, and turns down at the extremity, like the end of a violin. ❋ Robert Kerr (1784)