He had no nose, properly speaking, but a large beak of preposterous widthlessness, which gave his whole face the expression of falling gravely downstairs, and quite obliterated the unimportant chin.

-cummings, e e pen name of  Edward Estlin Cummings
  The Enormous Room, ch.3.

'Takethy beak fromout my heart, and takethy formfrom off my door!' Quoth the raven,'Nevermore.'

-Poe, EdgarAllan
  'The Raven', stanza17. In American Review, Feb1845.