When our nostrils are unobstructed, we involuntarily alternate breathing through one or the other about every two hours.
On smoking it decrees: "Always use a proper ashtray -- never a wine bottle, flower pot or used plate -- and avoid allowing smoke to billow out of the nostrils.
But even so the nostrils, proudly set even when the eyes blinked and the mouth pursed and wavered, maintained an extraordinary belief in the wisdom of the President and the rightness of his cause.
The human face of Javert consisted of a flat nose, with two deep nostrils, towards which enormous whiskers ascended on his cheeks,one felt ill at ease when he saw these two forests and these two caverns for the first time.
Now open one nostril and breathe in and out slowly then switch nostrils.
It can open and close its nostrils at will, can run faster than a horse, and makes almost no sound whatsoever.
If not vehicle and factory pollution then, as today, the problem is sandstorms as millions of tons of fine dust blanket the city, clogging the nostrils and silting up the lungs.
Her nostrils flared angrily.
Presently a sea-smell reached the nostrils and the river, ever majestic, flowed into the sea.
When Mr. Pan took his family inside, his nostrils were immediately assailed by the pungent odour of fried fish mixed with the stink of urine.
He dislikes his wide nostrils.
Fossils show how the nostrils of ancestral whales moved from the tip of the snout to the top of the head.
Another oddity: When paddling through the water, a platypus keeps its eyes, ears and nostrils closed, and its duck-bill serves as an antenna, sensing the faint electric fields surrounding prey.
I studied him, his gray hair, his face, carelessly shaven as always, the deep lines between his eyes and from his nostrils to the corners of his mouth.
She took the wet gourd dipper from him, her nostrils wrinkling in distaste at the reek.
Do you feel the airflow going through your nostrils?
Even if we wore double gauze masks while searching, our nostrils were very black as they were filled with dust.
They were rescued by another traveler, a man with such sensitive nostrils that he was able to scent smoke from a village some distance away and to lead them to it.
Friends need, be like good tea, weak and not astringent, but not fragrance assail the nostrils, floated slowly, and spirited. Life such as tea, light of the good friend.
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