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mouth and worked
In the early 1780s he worked for the British lieutenant-governor of Michilimackinac on an estate at what is now the city of St. Clair, Michigan, before moving to settle at the mouth of the Chicago River.
And they gave wicked ones his grave and scribbled word, probably accusative sign " eth " rich ones in his death although he worked no violence neither deceit in his mouth.
He worked on a board of Army and Navy engineers to improve the navigation of the shipping channels at the mouth of the Mississippi.
He worked on a ship, and went for a year to the West African coast at the mouth of the Niger as a foreman engineer for the United Africa Company.
The community was centred on the Adams Creek which was the site of a local ship builder who worked for the local merchants in the area which also had a winter harbour up the mouth of the Rouge River Valley.
“ He was a little boy, ten years old, with hair like dusty yellow grass and with shy polite grey eyes, and with a mouth that worked when he thought.

mouth and over
Bitterness comes over him and the taste of time is like unripe persimmons in his mouth.
A line of worry formed, a twitch pulled his mouth over to one side.
I clamped my hand over her mouth to stop the stream of filth.
In most species, the sound is produced by expelling air from the lungs over the vocal cords into an air sac or sacs in the throat or at the corner of the mouth.
The gases are contained in a test-tube ( A ) standing over a large quantity of weak alkali ( B ), and the current is conveyed in wires insulated by U-shaped glass tubes ( CC ) passing through the liquid and round the mouth of the test-tube.
Historically the languages were spoken over a larger area: West to the mouth of the Vistula river in present-day Poland, at least as far East as the Dniepr river in present-day Belarus, perhaps even to Moscow, perhaps as far south as Kiev.
They also have a dispute over an island at the mouth of the Ntem River.
The two begin to fight again, with the revitalized Kong swinging Godzilla around by his tail, shoving a tree into Godzilla's mouth, and judo tossing him over his shoulder.
The mask forms a sealed cover over the nose and mouth, but may also cover the eyes and other vulnerable soft tissues of the face.
" As he Emperor Alexios I knew that the Pisans were skilled in sea warfare and dreaded a battle with them, on the prow of each ship he had a head fixed of a lion or other land-animal, made in brass or iron with the mouth open and then gilded over, so that their mere aspect was terrifying.
Davidson further compares to early attestations of the Irish goddesses Badb ( Davidson points to the description of Badb from The Destruction of Da Choca's Hostel where Badb is wearing a dusky mantle, has a large mouth, is dark in color, and has gray hair falling over her shoulders, or, alternatively, " as a red figure on the edge of the ford, washing the chariot of a king doomed to die ") and The Morrígan.
They do this by bending over and attaching themselves to the substrate with the mouth and tentacles and then release the foot, which provides the usual attachment, this process is called looping.
Progressive presses also often feature case feeds that will hold hundreds of cases to be loaded, and all the user has to do is hold the bullet in place over the appropriate case mouth, and pull the lever.
In the rainy season the Save is a large stream and even in the " dries " it can be navigated from its mouth by shallow draught steamers for over 150 m. Its general direction through Portuguese territory is east by north.
On 21 September 967 the Polish-Bohemian troops prevailed in the decisive battle against the Wolinians led by Wichmann the Younger, which gave Mieszko the control over the mouth of the Odra River.
Six fast legs, four well developed folding wings, fairly good eyes, long, well developed antennae ( olfactory ), an omnivorous digestive system, a receptacle for storing sperm, a chitin-based exoskeleton that could support and protect, as well as a form of gizzard and efficient mouth parts, gave it formidable advantages over other herbivorous animals.
Although the band has received little radio play or mainstream exposure, Phish has developed a large and dedicated following by word of mouth, the exchange of live recordings by trading tapes with other fans and selling over 8 million albums and DVDs in the United States.
Having discovered the entrance, Solomon found an idol inside that had in its mouth a silver tablet saying in Greek ( a language not thought by modern scholars to have existed 1000 years before the time of Solomon ) that the statue was of Shaddad, the son of ' Ad, and that it had reigned over a million cities, rode on a million horses, had under it a million vassals and slew a million warriors, yet it could not resist the angel of death.
** disruptive selection — competition favoring fishes at either extreme of body size and mouth size over those nearer the mean — coupled with:
The law stated that when one purchased a drink, the bartender was to place over the mouth of the mug or goblet a cover or lid containing some small quantity of food as part of the purchase of the beverage.
Disputes-international: Uncontested disputes with Brazil over tiny Isla Brasilera at the mouth of the Quarai / Cuareim River near the Argentina tripoint, and, 225 kilometers upriver, over the 235 square km Invernada River region, as to which tributary is the legitimate source of the Quarai / Cuareim River.
Gypsies drove steel or iron needles into a corpse's heart and placed bits of steel in the mouth, over the eyes, ears and between the fingers at the time of burial.
Columbia Pictures released the film using the " platform " technique, which involved opening it in a few select cities, letting positive word of mouth generate interest, and then gradually expanding distribution over subsequent weeks.

mouth and profanity
The use of profanity and offensive language on free-to-air broadcasts in the United Kingdom, Canada, the United States, Australia, New Zealand, Hong Kong and Japan is sometimes censored by replacing the profane word or phrase with an audible beep ( s ), often accompanied by obscuring the speaker's mouth to prevent lip-reading.

mouth and vocabulary
In the ancient Roman sexual vocabulary, irrumatio is strictly a form of os impurum, oral sex, in which a man forces his penis into someone else's mouth, almost always that of another man.
Mrs. Gaskell, influenced by the work of her husband, does not hesitate to put in the mouth of the workers of Milton dialectal expressions and vocabulary of Lancashire, Manchester, more specifically, but without however going so far as Emily Bronte in her transcription of the particular pronunciation of Yorkshire or Dickens in the syntax of the fishermen of Yarmouth in David Copperfield.
" Joe's vocabulary is all, like, totally, DUDE every time he opens his mouth, and when he's not hamming it up with unconvincing slang, he's spouting lines that are supposed to sound witty but aren't.

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Morgan filled the dipper from the water bucket on the shelf, went back into the front room, lifted the girl's head, and held the edge of the dipper to her mouth.
His mouth was open, his neck corded with the strain of his screams.
But the scar seemed to pull hard at the corner of his mouth, and his eyes were hurt and angry.
clutched her throat and sucked up the moisture in her mouth so that her tongue was dry and hard and stuck to the roof of her mouth and her teeth were clenched together in the rigid fixture of her jaws.
He slid in at her side, tucked a cigar into his mouth, and politely proffered one to her.
`` We'll double teams zigzagging up the mountain, Harmony '', he spoke reassuringly, concerned by the pinched look around her mouth.
At the first restaurant he sensibly pulled up to go in for his dinner, and as a consequence did not see Cobb strike the open range at the mouth of the canyon and head straight across the swells for Antler.
Her mouth, which had been so much in my thoughts, was warm and moist and tender.
But with her hand softly on his cheek for a last moment, she closed the door and he went back down the hall and into his bed excited, expectant, and finally faintly grinning with the feel of her hand against his mouth.
The dust-thick saliva came from his mouth like balled cotton.
He cleansed his mouth with a small quantity.
His wide mouth compressed.
Ramey swung and caught the man just to the left of his mouth.
His arms hung like empty shirt sleeves, and his mouth was slightly open.
After what seemed several seconds, the open mouth grew dark inside then blood began to ooze from it.
The man brought one hand up slowly and the fingers fumbled across his face until he touched his mouth.
An incoherent, puzzled sound came from the red mouth.
The fear had not entirely gone from her face, but there were some other emotions now, crowding into her eyes and the lines of her mouth.
He cupped his mouth and yelled.
Curly hair, high cheekbones, wide gnomelike mouth, a pair of drummer's blocky hands, and a body that said well, maybe I can wrestle you for ten minutes -- but then I'm finished.
The newcomer stalked toward them, and Kitty shied back, her hand to her mouth.
Suddenly one of them shouted, ran a few feet, bent forward and put his mouth to the ground.
He bent down, a black cranelike figure, and put his mouth to the ground.
The mouth frequently breaks into a disarming smile.

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