Jaw Bones

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And the White House no longer even jaw-bones Wall Street's excesses. ❋ Unknown (2009)

In the former, the face, formed largely by the massive jaw-bones, predominates over the brain case, or cranium proper: in the latter, the proportions of the two are reversed. ❋ Unknown (2007)

He was rather like a horse altogether: he thudded with his feet as though they had been hoofs, did not laugh but neighed, opening his jaws till you could see right down his throat — and he had a long face, a hooked nose and big, flat jaw-bones; he wore a shaggy frieze, full-skirted coat, and smelt of raw meat. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Among the rubbish at the base of the wall there were some human fragments partly covered with matting; a little farther some jaw-bones with the teeth in them, then four more crosses, and some human heads lying at the foot of the wall, from which it was evident that dogs had partially gnawed off the matting in which they had been tied up. ❋ Isabella Lucy (2004)

Prognathism is that projection of the jaw-bones which sharpens or lessons this angle, and which is illustrated in the negro countenance and in the lowest savages. ❋ Unknown (2003)

We also found several petrified jaw-bones, of what looked to be wolves, still containing the teeth, and fossils of many kinds. ❋ William Alonzo Allen (N/A)

He opened the other wide so that it was as big as the mouth of a mead-cup. [a] He stretched his mouth from his jaw-bones to his ears; he opened his mouth wide to his jaw so that his gullet was seen. ❋ Unknown (N/A)

Before their day, it was a cemetery; and here they disinterred many a mouldering skeleton, belonging it seems, to that gigantic eight or nine feet race of men of past days, whose jaw-bones so many vivacious persons have clapped over their own, like horse-collars, without laying by a single one to convince the soul of scepticism. ❋ Alexander Clark Bullitt (N/A)

He saw one day a man with ten human jaw-bones hung by a string over his shoulder, the owners of which he had killed and eaten. ❋ Unknown (N/A)

To these last he has given a pathetic look of ecstasy, which is wonderfully expressive, considering it is obtained only by means of eyeless sockets and grinning jaw-bones. ❋ Maud Cruttwell (N/A)

The drought continues: For my part, I have not fill'd my belly this twelve-month: A plague on these clerks of the market, the baker and they juggle together; take no notice of me, I'll take no notice of thee; which make the poorer sort labour for nothing, while those greater jaw-bones make festival every day. ❋ 20-66 Petronius Arbiter (N/A)

Christians, you see, were always lecturing the other fellows, so their jaw-bones grew to an awful size. ❋ Sara Jeannette Duncan (N/A)

The ones who had any energy got up and went West years ago; and those who are left haven't any jaw-bones. ❋ Upton Sinclair (1923)

Skeletons with skulls of empty eye-sockets and set jaw-bones to make the travesty of human faces grim with menace! ❋ Ray Cummings (1922)

"The skull, jaw-bones, and ears are then suspended on a tree, as an antidote against evil spirits; but the flesh is eaten and much relished, for they believe that all who partake of it acquire a zest for the chase, and become courageous." ❋ Unknown (1922)

“The skull, jaw-bones, and ears are then suspended on a tree, as an antidote against evil spirits; but the flesh is eaten and much relished, for they believe that all who partake of it acquire a zest for the chase, and become courageous. ❋ Unknown (1922)

There was strength in the jaw-bones -- strength in the deep-set bright eyes -- strength in the shoulders that were square as box-corners without any padding -- strength in the lean lithe figure; but it was always brute strength. ❋ Mundy, Talbot, 1879-1940 (1920)

The jaw-bones are large, but do not protrude, whereas the chewing muscles are well developed, which gives the face breadth, makes the chin-line round and the chin itself small and pointed. ❋ Felix Speiser (1914)

Peter has a strong, roundish head, prominent jaw-bones, a receding forehead, thick, curly hair and beard. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)

What Waggoner saw was a thin, haggard face covered to the upper bulge of the jaw-bones with a disfiguring growth of reddish whiskers and inclosed at the temples by shaggy, unkempt strands of red hair which protruded from beneath the black hat. ❋ Unknown (1910)

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