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His arms hung like empty shirt sleeves, and his mouth was slightly open.
He hung up with a bang, annoyed at himself for running off at the mouth like that but still terribly concerned with the situation he had helped to create.
They were made of ivory or metal, occasionally jewelled, more than an inch in diameter, and hung upon the mouth.
Its teeth were rooted to its mouth and were not too delicate, unlike most saber-toothed cats of the time, which had extremely long canines which hung out of their mouths.
A painted picture representing the soul, is hung from the mouth of each of the two thieves on the cross ; an angel takes the soul of the penitent, the devil that of the impenitent thief.
He sketched with a free hand, wrote, as he lived, from hand to mouth, and the chief difficulty he experienced was that of getting rid of his characters who " hung about him like those tiresome people who never can make up their minds to bid you good night.
The upper lip of his enormous mouth dipped at the middle ; the broad thick under lip hung down with its own weight.
: Another ornament always present at Christmas-time in Germany, the smoking man is hollowed out with a hole leading to his mouth, hung with a pipe.
Allison escaped from the wreck without a scratch, but his face was ashen and his mouth hung open with an expression of fear.
As he was hung from a lamp-post, the rope broke three times in a row — so members of the crowd decided to behead him instead, before parading his head on a pike with his mouth stuffed with hay.

mouth and slightly
Scotty looked at the children, his mouth slightly opened, his eyes dull.
Anthropologist Arnold Henry Savage Landor described the Ainu as having deep-set eyes and an eye shape typical of Europeans, with a large and prominent browridge, large ears, hairy and prone to baldness, slightly flattened hook nose with large and broad nostrils, prominent cheek bones, large mouth and thick lips and a long region from nose to mouth and small chin region.
The WMCA smiley was yellow with black dots as eyes, but it had a slightly crooked smile instead of a full smile, and no creases in the mouth.
In the new style, the King's head is more trapezoidal with a slightly smaller and undecorated crown, he has a huge nose ( even bigger than Rodney's ) which covers his mouth and chin, and when he opens his mouth it appears that his beard has been shaved off.
The digestive tract begins slightly behind the head, the mouth lying on the underside a little way from the frontmost point of the body.
Foods that contain much starch but little sugar, such as rice and potato, taste slightly sweet as they are chewed because amylase turns some of their starch into sugar in the mouth.
One sat up and screamed, throwing her arm over her head, while the other, bleeding from the mouth, moaned and moved slightly.
Flat breads of only slightly varying kinds have long been used to scoop or wrap small amounts of food en route from platter to mouth throughout Western Asia and northern Africa.
Unlike the New Mexico segment of the boundary, which depended partly on unknown geography, " in order to preclude all difficulty in tracing upon the ground the limit separating Upper from Lower California ", a straight line was drawn from the mouth of the Gila to one marine league south of the southernmost point of the port of San Diego, slightly north of the previous Mexican provincial boundary at Playas de Rosarito.
* It is stout-bodied, three times taller than long ( without caudal fin ), and has a high back, flat topped head, moderately pointed snout, large oblique mouth, eye set up high ( not as high as in the above image due to its slightly oblique perspective ), and one sharp flat spine near the caudal end of the operculum.
* English moustache – narrow, beginning at the middle of the upper lip the whiskers are very long and pulled to the side, slightly curled ; the ends are pointed slightly upward ; areas past the corner of the mouth usually shaved.
It is somewhat similar in appearance, though slightly smaller than the bagpipe chanter, and has a top piece so it can be blown directly from the mouth.
It has a broad head ( male considerably more so than female ), defined occipital muscles, a relatively short foreface, dark round eyes and a wide mouth with a clean scissor-like bite ( the top incisors slightly overlap the bottom incisors ).
The broad head is distinct from the neck, and the snout is blunt in profile with the rim of the top of the head extending forwards slightly further than the mouth.
It has a large mouth, a prominent bony ridge above each eye, a rounded caudal fin, and two lateral lines which overlap slightly.
It is placed with the top a little further back than the bottom, which allows the top of the jewelry to lean slightly back, away from the teeth, and toward the higher part of the upper palate where there is more room in the mouth.
The mouth is slightly upturned with small, closely set sharp teeth confined to the jaws.
The other three Josephine County parks in the Hellgate Recreation Area are Whitehorse, across from the mouth of the Applegate River ; Griffin, slightly downstream of Whitehorse, and Almeda, downstream of Indian Mary.
Mambas are related to the cobras ( Elapidae ); their threat display, when they stretch a slightly smaller " hood " while gaping their mouth, is similar.
The King Penguin feeds its chicks by eating a fish, digesting it slightly and regurgitating the food into the chick's mouth.

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His mouth was open, his neck corded with the strain of his screams.
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.
After what seemed several seconds, the open mouth grew dark inside then blood began to ooze from it.
A northern ambassador, willing to keep his mouth shut and his ears open, could learn a lot that would stand him in good stead at the Curia.
He breathed now with his mouth open, showing a whitely curving section of lower teeth ; ;
Juanita stopped just inside the open door, her hand to her mouth.
I got hold his mouth open ''.
His mouth fell open.
`` His mouth is open ''.
It was so utterly unexpected that Marty stood for several moments with his mouth hanging open foolishly after it had happened.
Casey heard the click of the distant receiver before he could open his mouth, and it took him no more than three seconds to make his decision.
Therefore to Helva, the problem that she couldn't open her mouth to sing, among other restrictions, did not bother her.
The rounded shapes of the gaps and the lip-like edges carved into the stone surrounding them create a semblance of a fully open mouth, for which the Casa Batlló has been nicknamed the " house of yawns.
The highly successful metal pressure tube anemometer of William Henry Dines in 1892 utilized the same pressure difference between the open mouth of a straight tube facing the wind and a ring of small holes in a vertical tube which is closed at the upper end.
It was the following insult directed at Lord Percy by Edmund Blackadder: " The eyes are open, the mouth moves, but Mr. Brain has long since departed, hasn't he, Percy?
Many ships had only jury masts and it took a full day for the convoy to reach the mouth of the bay, finally sailing into open water on 15 August.
If the receiving partner has wounds on his genitals, or if the giving partner has wounds or open sores on or in his or her mouth, or bleeding gums, this poses an increased risk of STD transmission.
" 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.
The doctor attempted to examine the inside of Himmler's mouth, but the prisoner was reluctant to open it and jerked his head away.
An alternate explanation is in the process of uncuffing an inmate, Bogart was struck in the mouth when the inmate wielded one open, uncuffed bracelet while the other side was still on his wrist.
* Quidding, a dental problem sometimes found in horse teeth where the animal drops partially chewed food while chewing, or chews with the mouth open
Composed by Jonathan Wolff, it consists of distinct solo sampled bass synthesizer riffs which open the show and connect the scenes, often accompanied by a " percussion track " composed of mouth noises, such as pops and clicks.
** a smaller limnetic species — with a smaller mouth — that feeds on the small plankton in open water

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