He was completely bald, and his head was blue-white. Large, brown eye-brows covered his eyes in such a high arch that his face seemed surprised and a little frightened. His nose was long and thin, and curved like a bird’s beak.
– John Steinbeck
The Grapes of Wrath, Chapter 26. The Hooper Ranch store worker Ma Joad buys her dollar’s worth of groceries from is described like he’s a bird of prey. A simile compares his nose to the beak of a bird.