"He mouths a sentence as curs mouth a bone."
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"I really don't know what's going to come out of my mouth."
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"The royal family's existence is a constant reminder of the hollowness of John Major's rhetoric, and idiotic statements by its leading members a constant boost to the republican cause. They're fine opening hospitals. It's when they open their mouths they get into trouble."
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"X + Y + Z X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut."
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"Fortunately, however, birds don't understand pep talks. Not even St. Francis'. Just imagine, he went on, preaching sermons to perfectly good thrushes and goldfinches and chiff-chaffs! What presumption! Why couldn't he have kept his mouth shut and let the birds preach to him?"
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"Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounce it to you, trippingly on the tongue; but if you mouth it, as many of your players do, I had as lief the town-crier spoke my lines."
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"The mouth obeys poorly when the heart murmurs."
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"There's no wobble in Bush. If anything, the opposite. Right after hello, the next words out of his mouth are: I've never been more convinced that the decisions I made are the right decisions."
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"Running at Ron, she flung them around his neck and kissed him full on the mouth. Ron threw away the fangs and broomstick he was holding and responded with such enthusiasm that he lifted Hermione off her feet."
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"Nancy had a mouth like a remembered kiss."
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"A sociable smile is nothing but a mouth full of teeth."
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"More contact means more sharing of information, gossiping, exchanging, engaging - in short, more word of mouth."
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"In England, you're allowed to have an opinion - as long as it comes out of your mouth."
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"There’s nothing more dangerous to the kingdom of darkness than a believer with the Word of God in their mouth."
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"Unless the religious claims of the Bible are again acknowledged, its literary claims will, I think, be given only 'mouth honour' and that decreasingly."
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"It is a common saying, and in everybody's mouth, that life is but a sojourn."
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"A cricket ball broke my nose when I was a kid so I couldn't breath through it. Before I had it operated on I used to stand on stage with my mouth slightly open."
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"Anglers have a way of romanticizing their battles with fish and of forgetting that the fish has a hook in his mouth, his gullet, or his belly and that his gameness is really an extreme of panic in which he runs, leaps, and pulls to get away until he dies. It would seem to be enough advantage to the angler that the fish has the hook in his mouth rather than the angler."
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"Misery is the end of those with unbridled mouths."
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"No bribes. Nothing that passes under the roof of a temple Or under the roof of the mouth, can appease heaven's anger Or deflect its aim."
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