1854. Thackeray, Newcomes, I., 296. The well-known hooked beak of
the old countess. [M.]
1865. E. C. Clayton, Cruel Fort, I., 143. A large, fat, greasy
woman, with a prominent beak.
1876. E. C. Grenville Murray, The Member for Paris, I., p. 80. It
was not the most agreeable thing in the world to be suddenly
interrupted in a mantel-shelf conversation by a gentleman with a
firm beak-nose and a red rosette in his button-hole.