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But still, you see, one's often blind to many a thing that lies right under one's nose, till it's pointed out.

From Mary Barton by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

Usually they are hollow tubes of paper which just flare away under one's nose and are done.

From Sea and Sardinia by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

Well, I am glad of it, Mrs. G., because, I assure you, that fogo must be a sickening one to carry about under one's nose.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 93, July, 1865 by Various

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 E. W. (Ernest William) Hornung

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 Isabel Ecclestone Mackay


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