It had a grotesquely human mouth and jaw; but with no chin of which to speak.

When the word was given, the horses all got off well and Dexter immediately took the lead,buzzing through the air like a humming-top,followed closely by Lady Thorn, her nose just lapping his off jaw.

Long stayed he thus, to mark the fierce curve of nostril, the square grimness of jaw and chin, and the lips that met in a harsh line, down-trending and relentless.

The colonel's jaw set and the last vestige of the smile left his eyes.

" She wondered why he set his jaw when he said this, but he was wondering how deeply the colonel's ward had fallen into the clutches of Nelly Lebrun.

The clear-cut, clean-shaven features riveted attention by reason of their strength and intelligence, and though the dark eyes were rather too dreamy for the face, the heavy lines of the lower jaw indicated the man of action and force of character.

Apart from a rather heavy lower jaw, he gave no external indication of his professional pursuits, but looked, with his brown and weather-beaten face and rough blue reefer suit, not unlike a seafaring man.

His jaw had ceased working, and the expression of his eye had changed.

Reports published in the newspapers from time to time of children or young men instantly killed by a tap on the jaw in a boxing contest, or some other trivial injuries are doubtless samples of such reactions in thymo-centric people.

His sharply outlined features and a powerful lower jaw, combined with oddly small plump hands, long straight black hair, and dark complexion, all point to the pituitary, with a secondary adrenal effect.

And, I suppose, if I was just a little more effeminate and pale, with a nice retreating under-jaw and a drooping lip, and a meek, peaking simper, like your starved Romish saints, I should be "so spiritual!"

What's the use of jawing?

She sank on to her knees, her arms still round him, and stroked and caressed his withered hand that twitched and shook; and to her horror his stony eyes grew more vacant, his jaw dropped, and he sank still lower in the chair.

Still I seemed to see the tragic look in his eyes, and the dogged set of his jaw.

The sergeant hears everything, and his reply to backslack is a straight-arm jab in the jaw.

It was a sinister but powerful face, the face of a debauched hero, clean-shaven, strongly eye-browed, keen-eyed, with huge, aggressive jaw, and an animal dewlap beneath it.

Whizzing up from below with a rigid arm, which put the Master's eleven stone into its force, it struck him under the jaw; he whirled half round, and fell a helpless and half-paralysed mass.

"And you have a livid mark under your jaw.

"And you think there's someone hiding in the box?" "There's no doubt about it," said Allardyce, picking up the screwdriver and setting his jaw like a man who needs to brace his courage.

These accomplishments are of the same kind, and only a degree higher than the coaxing of the auctioneer, or the vituperative style well described in the street-word "jawing."

" Sinclair snapped his cigarette into the coals of the fire and set his jaw.

"What's the use of jawing about it?

" "Well, come on," said the first speaker, "or he will get away whilst we are jawing about what we shall do.

Since then I've heard worse jawing not called sassing, call it arguing now.

"So I did it, the old housekeeper following us with an armful of things and jawing the both of ushim for a fool and me for a villain.