354 Verbs to Use for the Word mouth

There I found Tonnison standing within a small excavation that he had made among the débris: he was brushing the dirt from something that looked like a book, much crumpled and dilapidated; and opening his mouth, every second or two, to bellow my name.

The stranger was tossing restlessly in his bunk, opening and shutting his parched mouth in silent, piteous appeal for the water that must still be doled to him parsimoniously.

Another fifty paces and it would be no longer necessary to stop my mouth.

Within half an hour the gig had reached the mouth of the cave.

The water there will close your chattering mouth!'

You'd fill his mouth with lead, and so would I.

And all the time Rogers was watching him furtively, wiping his mouth mechanically with a trembling hand.

At last the big steamship entered the mouth of the Calabar and Cross Rivers.

" Karl Steinmetz passed his broad hand down over his face, covering his mouth for a second.

If we valued peace, we kept our mouths shut.

He had kissed the pretty little mouth that he had so often watched with longing.

I would be the better of a drink to wash my mouth of the accursed pronouns.

These, I proceeded to place 'round the Pit mouth, with an interval of about twenty yards between each.

At that instant Diggory, who had been craning his neck forward to get a better view of the intruder, suddenly gripped Acton's arm, and, putting his mouth close to the latter's ear, whispered, "It isn't Blake; it's old Noaks!

Having passed the river's mouth, and rowed towards the sea, we came near the Prince first, but pursued our destination to the Africa.

As we struggled I could see Ringan holding the mouth of the ravine with his sword.

A boat crossed the harbor mouth, swinging up on the smooth swell and vanishing when the undulations rolled by.

Roumania, in addition to her former territory, should ultimately be given sovereignty over Bessarabia, Transylvania, and the upper portion of the Dobrudja, leaving the central mouth of the Danube as the boundary of Bulgaria, or else the northern half.

THEIR PRESERVATION.The preservation of the teeth requires attention to several points; the first and principal of which is, to enforce the habit in the child of thoroughly cleaning the teeth by means of water and a brush night and morning, and rinsing out the mouth after each meal.

In spite of their mother's warning frown, the three young Eastmans laughed, while Susy and Prudy, who had kinder hearts and better manners, drew down their mouths with the greatest solemnity.

The man told her that the fowls didn't mind, and she pursed up her small mouth and showed the band how she said to him, "I would prefer the opinion of the hens."

Maudie set her mouth very firm and quickened her pace.

I succeeded in gaining the foot of the cliff on the eastern extremity of the glacier, and there discovered the mouth of a narrow avalanche gully, through which I began to climb, intending to follow it as far as possible, and at least obtain some fine wild views for my pains.

Thus she was just in time to see him, standing at the mouth of the cave, clutching a heavy bag; he had been tying the mouth of it.

Her face was lifted up to his; in the starlight he saw her eyes shining softly, gloriously; he saw her mouth, the lips barely apart.

354 Verbs to Use for the Word  mouth