Help us to save free conscience from the paw Of hireling wolves, whose gospel is their maw.

A country feeding into the insatiable maw of war with one hand, and with the other pouring relief-funds into coffers bombarded by guns of its own manufacturequelling the wound with a finger and widening it with a knife up the cuff.

You get the very spirit of the meaning of that country when you see Little Pete feeding his sheep in the red, choked maw of an old vent,a kind of silly pastoral gentleness that glazes over an elemental violence.

The poplar supply is limited, and paper-mills have capacious maws.

Close by, nickel palaces of amusement exhibited their yawning entrances, and into these gilded maws floated, from the human current on the sidewalk, a stream of men, women and children.

The scalps were in the wild dogs' maw, The hair was tangled round his jaw.

Were this bear loose, how he would tear our maws.

To this the queen refers when she exclaims "Were this bear loose, how he would tear our maws.

But as he was fleeing from her he fell into the arms of a genius, the same good old genius who, happening on the cruel giaour at the instant of his growling in the horrible chasm, had rescued the fifty little victims which the impiety of Vathek had devoted to his maw.

These dainties are not for a spiritual maw!

Or did you think I would forget?" He cast the man from him, backward, down into the hungry maw of that inferno.... ***END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK RED MASQUERADE*

But surely, of the rabid animal who is caught dining at noonday, the homo ferus, who affronts the meridian sun like Thyestes and Atreus, by his inhuman meals, we are, by parity of reason, entitled to say, that he has a "maw," (so has Milton's Death,) but nothing resembling stomach.

" "Thy gentle parents shall not bury thee, Amongst thine ancestors entomb'd to be, But feral fowl thy carcass shall devour, Or drowned corps hungry fish maws shall scour.

Will he not rise in wrath against the Barrister,he the Pamphagus of Homilitic, Liturgic, and Articular orthodoxy,the Garagantua, whose ravenous maw leaves not a single word, syllable, letter, no, not one 'iota' unswallowed, if we are to believe his own recent and voluntary manifesto?

" "That's what maw said," returned the young woman, simply, yet with the faintest smile playing around her demure lips and downcast cheek.

" "That's what maw said, too, and of course your knowing him will make it all the easier for you," said the young woman.

I said to maw, 'Ain't he too sweet for anything!'

Breeders of Toy-dogs often rear the overplus offspring by hand, with the help of a Maw and Thompson feeding-bottle, peptonised milk, and one or more of the various advertised infants' foods or orphan puppy foods.

That boat deserved well of him, for its stanchness had stood between him and the maws of the sharks many days and nights.

Art, science, and literature, also progress, and we almost begin to fear we shall soon be puzzled where to stow the books, and anticipate a dearth in rags, an extinction of Rag-Fair! (which will keep the others in countenance,) the booksellers' maws seem so capacious.

Whose bulging sack is pregnant with delight; Who comest in the middle of the night To stuff distracting playthings in the maws Of stockings never built for infant shins, Suspended from the mantelpiece by pins.

But it is not your vast circumference That stirs this passing strain; I would not sing although, to move you hence, They fetched their biggest crane; It is that men should shovel tons of that Into the maws of some capacious vat, Add sugar (half-a-pound)

The four trip-hammerstwo bull-headed, two calf-headedchamped, like carnivorous maws, upon red bars of iron, and over their banquet they roared the big-toned music of the trip-hammer chorus, "Now, then! hit hard!

No, not fear, in the sense of timidity, but rather a realization of the immense perils of this situation, and an up-springing of the heart to meet those perils, to face and overcome them, and from out their very maw to snatch rewards beyond all calculation.

Keep your ain fish-guts to your ain sea-maws.