Nevertheless, the little mouthful of meat that swells out the breasts of some song-birds is too often the cause of their death.

John was not one of those romantic heroes who can go through three volumes of hairbreadth escapes without the faintest hint of that blessed institution, dinner; therefore, like "Lady Leatherbridge," he "partook copiously of everything," while the two women beamed over each mouthful with an interest that enhanced its flavor, and urged upon him cold meat and cheese, pickles and pie, as if dyspepsia and nightmare were among the lost arts.

I was a small boy then, and the bear, probably thinking I'd be a mouthful for him anyway, began to come after me in a leisurely way.

I was told afterwards that many of these were people who had neither money nor tickets for foodsome of them wanderers from town to town; anybody may meet them limping, footsore and forlorn, upon the roads in Lancashire, just now houseless wanderers, who had made their way to the soup kitchen to beg a mouthful from those who were themselves at death's door.

There was another kind of this mouse chasing which furnished better sport and more juicy mouthfuls to the young cubs.

With the taste of Morocco dirt still on his tongue, the Kaiser had to take another unpalatable mouthful in Constantinople.

The young gentlemen who stood about the doors of the so-called "coffee-houses" talked with a frantic energy alarming to any stranger, and just when you would have expected to see them jump and bite large mouthfuls out of each other's face, they would turn and enter the door, talking on in the same furious manner, and, walking up to the bar, click their glasses to the success of the Villivicencio ticket.

After that take only a few mouthfuls at a time and wash out the mouth and throat.

Raising his half-filled glass to the light, and rolling the last mouthful on his tongue, 'I am afraid,' he said, 'that what I heard in town was true?' 'What was it?'

I couldn't swallow a mouthful without water.

When she had finished he brought her bread and butter and fed her, mouthful by mouthful, while the tears ran silently down her face.

So she sat down and cooked her breakfast, and had just put one mouthful into her mouth when her husband came to the outer door.

An iron grabber is lowered by a crane, it pauses as if to examine the ground before it, in search of a good bite, opens a pair of enormous jaws, takes a grab, and, swinging round, empties its mouthful onto a railway truck.

His pack burros in hobbles strayed off to hunt for a wetter mouthful than the sage afforded, and gave him no concern.

Viushin scraped a small handful of dirty crumbs out of our empty bread-bag, fried them in a little blubber, which I suppose he had brought to grease his gun with, and offered them to me; but, hungry as I was, I could not eat the dark, greasy mass, and he divided it by mouthfuls among the Kamchadals.