He was mouthing the words of some Bible Prophet.

Boswell, however, was acquainted with Davies, an actor turned bookseller, now chiefly remembered by a line in Churchill's Rosciad which is said to have driven him from the stage He mouths a sentence as curs mouth a bone.

True; and how many hundreds are there that live from hand to mouth all the days of their life?

It could not be apathy, for he heard nothing but complaint upon complaint bandied from mouth to mouth the whole evening.

Like wave on wave in eager seas, From mouth to mouth the murmur flees "Of Ibycus, whom we bewail!

He had stepped from the wrong side of the car, perhaps, or her eager eyes had missed him; at any rate here he was,a young man, with honest eyes, and mouth a little grave; a very plainly dressed young man,his coat was not as new as Sharley's calico,but a young man with a good step of his own,strong, elastic,and a nervous hand.

For the censure of the world, its meddling and mouthing hypocrisy, I care absolutely nothing; I have long set it at defiance.

'He could not mouth and strut as he used to do, after having been in the pillory,' iii. 315.

What taxed me most in the wreck of one of my favorite cañons by cloudburst was to see a bobcat mother mouthing her drowned kittens in the ruined lair built in the wash, far above the limit of accustomed waters, but not far enough for the unexpected.

His supreme moment was not when he flung the completed manuscript aside, or when he heard the actors mouth his lines, but in the flash and throb of creationin the moment when he knew that he had the power in him to write 'Lear.'

They swore mouth to mouth an endless love.

" One of her intimate friends says that "in every line of her face there was powder, and about her jaw and mouth a prodigious massiveness, which might well have inspired awe had it not been tempered by the most gracious smile which ever lighted up human features, and was ever ready to convert what otherwise might have been terror into fascination!"

He delights in protracting its "guttural murmur;" perhaps, in assuming its name for its sound; and, having proved, that "consonants are capable of forming syllables," finds no difficulty in mouthing this little monosyllable by into b-oo-i-ee!

The poets are as well to listen to, any thing high may, nay must, be read outyou read it to yourself with an imaginary auditorbut the light paragraphs must be glid over by the proper eye, mouthing mumbles their gossamery substance.

He had done with thrones; he had even done with Tower Cottageunless indeed his pale shade were to hold nocturnal converse with the robust and flamboyant ghost of Captain Duggle; the one vaunting his unreal vanished greatness, mouthing orations and mimicking pomp; the other telling, in language garnished with strange and horrible oaths, of those dark and lurid terrors which once had driven him from this very place, leaving it ablaze behind.

What if 'twere no mere creation Of fear, if God's high providence vouchsafed To interpose its aid for your deliverance, And made that mouth its organ? WALLENSTEIN.

I came here yestereen to find you mouthing blasphemies, and howling like a mad tyke amid a parcel of heathen.

she mouthed, "what madness brought you here to this grove?to this place where the Stonish Giants have returned, riding out of Biskoona!" A groan burst from the Indians; a chief raised his arms, making the False-Faces' sign.

She whined and whimpered querulously, mouthing inarticulate plaints and prayers as Roger haled her along, with Cnut and Walkyn, fierce and scowling, behind.

You'll find himas a Frankin comic rage, Mouthing mad rant, fighting preposterous duels, Scattering ordures o'er Romance's page, And decking a swine's snout with Style's choice jewels.

Of the "Merriment of Parsons" one of the most conspicuous instances was to be found in the Rev. W.H. Brookfield, the "little Frank Whitestock" of Thackeray's Curate's Walk, and the subject of Lord Tennyson's characteristic elegy: "Brooks, for they called you so that knew you best Old Brooks, who loved so well to mouth my rhymes, How oft we two have heard St. Mary's chimes!

It came to his understanding, however, that if you mouth a helpless baby robin, a hand or a stick falls upon you hurtfully, even if you evade it for the moment and seclude yourself under a porch until it would seem that so trifling an occurrence must have been utterly forgotten.

But of Händel as a lover, we must postpone the gossip till we have mouthed one of the most delicious morsels in musical scandal, a choice romance that is said to have affected Purcell very deeply.

Boswell, however, was acquainted with Davies, an actor turned bookseller, now chiefly remembered by a line in Churchill's Rosciad which is said to have driven him from the stage He mouths a sentence as curs mouth a bone.

They returned to the hall and stood in a half circle about the empty chair, where a little while ago Silas Blackburn had cowered, mouthing snatches of his fear"I'm not dead!