The crowd, not a dry-eyed one, women in spite of themselves with lips whitening, men grim with pride and an innermost bleeding, sagged suddenly, thinning and trickling back into the great, impersonal maw of the city.

Straight at the black maw with bits of floating ice like the crunching white teeth of a monster, the boat held its way.

Then he turned to Mac, and, pointing a finger like a straw (nothing could fatten those infinitesimal hands), he said gravely and fluently: "Maw in de plenty-bowl.

Is it to satisfy the greed of some among us, and can it be that the Country will fill their maw at the cost of public misfortune? Patriotism, sold to the rich, to those who traffic in the blood of souls and of nations!

His inmost instincts, urgent and loud in his ear, told him to remain on guard, not to leave that cavern maw for an instant but to protect with his own body the precious life that it sheltered.