Jaws

Examples

• Lubbock made drawings for me, with the camera lucida, of the jaws which I dissected from the workers of the several sizes. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• This accounts for the phenomenon of the weaker of the two usually having a bundle of firewood thrust between its jaws in hot weather. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• A small part of the end of the wire extends beyond the jaws. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• So it is with the wonderfully complex jaws and legs of crustaceans. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• Scarcely a day passed that did not find Professor Porter straying in his preoccupied indifference toward the jaws of death. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• In operation it is lowered with open jaws, and by its own weight digs into the ground that is to be excavated. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• One of the most common is the clam-shell dredge, consisting of a pair of large, heavy iron jaws, hinged at the back, in general form resembling a pair of huge clam shells. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• There was a gray stubble of beard stippled over Primitivo's jaws, his lip and his neck. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• He was a young man with a clear, hairless face, a long, thin nose, and rather nut-cracker jaws. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• The nuts they cracked between their powerful jaws, or, if too hard, broke by pounding between stones. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• The face, jaws, and teeth are mere guess work (_see_ text). H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Drink yourself, and light up your lantern jaws, old boy. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• The illustrious dogs of Constantinople barked their under jaws off, and even then failed to do us justice. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• His jaws opened, and he muttered some inarticulate sounds, while a grin wrinkled his cheeks. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• Among the pioneers was one which received the round bunch between two compressing jaws, and pressed it flat. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Traction is then made on the chains controlling the jaws, which close; the grapple is hoisted to the surface and its contents discharged into scows alongside the dredge. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Childers (rather deeply lined in the jaws by daylight), and the Little Wonder of Scholastic Equitation, and in a word, all the company. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• The other males scattered in all directions, but not before the infuriated brute had felt the vertebra of one snap between his great, foaming jaws. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• The proper length of wire is fed into the machine automatically, and the end is gripped by a set of jaws. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• The frame is slit at the inner horizontal edges, and then folded in such a way as to make individual clamping-jaws for each end-flange. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• This crusher consists of two ponderous upright jaws, one fixed and the other movable, between which the stones or ores to be crushed are fed. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• The jaws, moreover, of the working ants of the several sizes differed wonderfully in shape, and in the form and number of the teeth. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• Two were corpses, one had barely escaped the jaws of death, another was sick and a widow. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• Each of the jaws is lined with the hardest kind of chilled steel. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• No, no,' said the other, looking round her and wagging her toothless jaws. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• When the jaws are touched with a needle they seize it so firmly that the branch can thus be shaken. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• The old man took it coldly enough, and seemed to prefer his jaws, to which he returned as soon as he could. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• Thus in conjunction with the shuttle the stitches were formed alternately above and below the binding twine, the holding jaws being raised intermittently for that purpose. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• In accomplishing this the ape was tearing away the entire front of its breast, which was held in the vise-like grip of the powerful jaws. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.

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