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To have a possibility snatched from under one's nose without warning is annoying, especially if the season in possibilities threatens to be poor.

From The Window-Gazer by Mackay, Isabel Ecclestone

As I see it, at all events, it's a strange little evolution and all taking place here, quite compactly, under one's nose.

From The Letters of Henry James (volume I) by James, Henry

The man one can't find with all one's messengers sent about the place, sitting just under one's nose, exactly where one never thought of looking!

From The Idiot by Martin, Eva M.

As if one hasn't got puzzles enough, and bothers enough, under one's nose, without going a-field after a lot of metaphysical quibbles.

From Tom Brown at Oxford by Hughes, Thomas

They would lope across the floor under one's nose, or dangle their tails from the beams overhead, and I slept with a big stick handy.

From Notes of a Camp-Follower on the Western Front by Hornung, E. W. (Ernest William)




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