Bardwell, in a way, started it by quoting from Thoreau; but it was old Trefethan, bald-headed and dewlapped, who took up the quotation and for the hour to come was romance incarnate. ❋ Unknown (2010)
In “The Break,” a virtuoso comic performance that first appeared in the Spring 1994 issue of Antaeus, her younger self (who goes by the Hebrew name of Shoshana) solemnly announces her disengagement from the “white-haired, dewlapped, thick-waisted, thick-lensed hag” (who goes by the Greek name of Cynthia) — a writer disgustingly devoid of that hunger for success that drives great artists. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Miss Keeldar owned such a herd - all deep-dewlapped, ❋ Unknown (2004)
It seemed as if half the marines owned at least one dog, as did some of the crew; there were liver-colored hounds, dewlapped bulldogs, silly spaniels, terriers and a great many mongrels. ❋ Colleen McCullough (2000)
But by the time I met Frank he must have been pushing eighty, with a big, dewlapped face and an ill-kempt gray Afro that made him look like an old, shaggy-maned lion. ❋ Obama, Barack (1995)
There were giraffes, too, peering over the tops of the acacias, and agile, lyre-horned impala, gazelles with their dark painted eyes, and the gentle, dewlapped eland. ❋ Virginia Morell (1995)
Her cheeks were plump and dewlapped and her eyes, which were of a pale watery blue, were hooded. ❋ Gill, B. M. (1991)
He was a red-faced, dewlapped man in his early thirties, head of the firm of Masterson, Roach and Roach. ❋ Clavell, James (1966)
He saluted, his dewlapped face flushed and sweating. ❋ Clavell, James, 1924- (1962)
It did not take very long for J---- to work through the fifty pages of Keats reprinted in Professor Hidden Page's anthology; and then he, a lone and laughing faun among that pack of stern sophomores -- so flewed, so sanded, out of the Spartan kind, crook-knee'd and dewlapped like Thessalian bulls -- sped away into thickets of Landor, ❋ Christopher Morley (1923)
Trefethan, bald-headed and dewlapped, who took up the quotation and for an hour to come was Romance incarnate. ❋ Unknown (1911)
Mrs. Chapman was a stout, dewlapped old lady, with dull eyes and pachydermatous folds in her face. ❋ F. Anstey (1895)
I remember such a one among my father's milkers when I was a boy, -- a slender-horned, deep-shouldered, large-uddered, dewlapped old cow that we always put first in the long stable, so she could not have a cow on each side of her to forage upon; for the master is yielded to no less in the stanchions than in the yard. ❋ John Burroughs (1879)
He was standing with his hands behind his back -- a man of a gross, misbegotten face and body, dewlapped like a bull and red as a harvest moon; and in his jockey cap, blue coat and top boots, he had much the air of a good, solid tenant-farmer. ❋ Robert Louis Stevenson (1872)
Also whereas the other wains were drawn by mere oxen, and those of divers colours, as chance would have it, the wain of the banner was drawn by ten black bulls of the mightiest of the herd, deep-dewlapped, high-crested and curly-browed; and their harness was decked with gold, and so was the wain itself, and the woodwork of it painted red with vermilion. ❋ William Morris (1865)
It means that if I, as a UK citizen, in the UK, take photos of a fifty year old British woman, in Britain and put them on the internet, in Britain, indeed, anywhere on Earth, I am liable to prosecution in the US where I havent set foot since 1973 if I dont keep a bunch of records in which I have a signed affidavit that the dewlapped old bat in the piccies really is over 18! ❋ Unknown (2009)
Sylvie forced herself to breathe deeply, to try to forget the image of herself, wrinkled and dewlapped and old, in her too-tight suit, standing by a man who’d shamed her and broken her heart, standing there as if he hadn’t dishonored her, as if she still loved him, to try to forget that there were people, probably lots of them, who thought this was her fault. ❋ Jennifer Weiner (2010)
I [punched] that [fat ass] right in his [dewlap]. ❋ Louie Bloo (2011)
She's so [fat] you gotta [lift up] her dewlap to find her [snatch]. ❋ Steve-Oh (2004)
