Mouths

Examples

• Smith, embracing the mouths of the Tennessee and Cumberland rivers, had been added to my jurisdiction. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• A certain set of words and phrases, as much belonging to tourists as the College and the Snuggery belonged to the jail, was always in their mouths. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• If I did as you wish me to do, I should be bankrupt in a month; and would my bankruptcy put bread into your hungry children's mouths? Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• They had been treating their guard, I suppose, for they had a gaoler with them, and all three came out wiping their mouths on their hands. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• Their noses were but longitudinal slits in the center of their faces, midway between their mouths and ears. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
• I washed her, I kept her clean, I fed her, I tried to amuse her; but she made mouths at me instead of speaking. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• Let's rinse our mouths with a drop of burnt sherry; the last-comer shall stand it, Mivins shall fetch it, and I'll help to drink it. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• I'll make ye laugh t' other side yer mouths! Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• Their long, massive necks upreared raised their great, gaping mouths high above our heads. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• To feed all these superfluous mouths we shall need a part of our neighbour's land, and they will want a part of ours. Plato. The Republic.
• So she asked what she should use for new heads, since the old ones were lost, and all the geese opened their hundred mouths and screamed. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• Seated upon their haunches, with their mouths close together, they had made all the noise we had been hearing for the past ten minutes. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• The roads all go along the river mouths to the sea and to cross the country you must go along the paths beside the canals. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• Then let us put a speech into the mouths of our opponents. Plato. The Republic.
• The same law governs the construction of the mouths and limbs of crustaceans. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• The others, who had not opened their mouths after the change of allegiance, were all leaning forward to listen now. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• For, your mouths lying flat with your faces, you can hardly bite each other to any purpose, unless by consent. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
• He had destroyed Tyre; in Egypt, at one of the mouths of the Nile, he now founded a new city, Alexandria, to replace that ancient centre of trade. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• We speak into it, and have the unique experience of listening to our own voice emanating from a different part of the room, instead of our own mouths. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• She never could understand how well-bred persons consented to sing and open their mouths in the ridiculous manner requisite for that vocal exercise. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• This they lick with their tongues, which makes their mouths sore, and they not only shun this locality, but appear to tell all the neighboring rats about it. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
• Keep thy mouths shut and follow me, he said. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• A bitter taste it is that such poor cattle always have in their mouths, and hard lives they live, Jacques. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• Neither is there any remedy; because it is capital for those, who receive an audience to spit or wipe their mouths in his majesty's presence. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
• The Tennessee and Cumberland rivers, from their mouths to the head of navigation, were secured. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Mrs. Hurst and her sister scarcely opened their mouths, except to complain of fatigue, and were evidently impatient to have the house to themselves. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• I hope that I may not be misconstrued into saying that the progenitors of whales did actually possess mouths lamellated like the beak of a duck. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• Tradesmen's books hunger, and tradesmen's mouths water, for the gold dust of the Golden Dustman. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• In an instant the brute was upon me, but ere it could fasten its hideous mouths into my breast and throat I grasped a writhing tentacle in either hand. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• Awakened by a timid local functionary and three armed patriots in rough red caps and with pipes in their mouths, who sat down on the bed. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.

Editor: Martin