"When the reptile is attacked at one mouth of his burrow, he shows himself at another."
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"The Caterpillar and Alice looked at each other for some time in silence: at last the Caterpillar took the hookah out of its mouth."
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"If you feel driven to feed the poor, get your checkbook out and keep your tyrannical mouth shut about it."
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"It is better; heavier, crueler. The mouth you wear for hell."
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"I have been stabbed, shot, burned, bitten, beaten unconscious too many times to count, and even staked. None of those held a candle to the pain I felt at seeing his mouth on hers."
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"Obviously, ISU will be primed for revenge and wants to get that bad taste of the last game out of their mouth."
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"Bread without butter or coffee without milk is an awful calamity, as if everything before being put in our mouth must first be held under a cow."
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"I love words very much. I've always loved to talk, and I've always love words — the words that rest in your mouth, what words mean and how you taste them and so on. And for me the spoken word can be used almost as a gesture."
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"When Jesus Christ utters a word, He opens His mouth so wide that it embraces all Heaven and earth, even though that word be but in a whisper."
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"Every man was not born with a silver spoon in his mouth."
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"Marketing only really works with word of mouth."
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"And now, at last, gaiaphage and Nemesis stood facing each other. “Why didn’t you just . . . fade?” Gaia demanded plaintively. “You hit me,” Nemesis said. It was a little boy’s voice coming from Caine’s mouth. “And that’s not okay."
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"They were really getting quite fond of their strange pet and hoped that Aslan would allow them to keep it. The cleverer ones were quite sure by now that at least some of the noises which came out of his mouth had a meaning. They christened him Brandy because he made that noise so often."
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"The taste of the usual was like cinders in his mouth, and there were moments when he felt as if he were being buried alive under his future."
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"Mary's mouth cost her nothing for she never opens it but at others' expense."
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"You never open your mouth until you know what the shot is."
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"My mouth blooms like a cut."
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"Drink this," she says. "What is it?" my throat feels swollen. I swallow hard. "What's going to happen?" "Can't tell you that. Just trust me." I press air from my lungs and tip the contents of the vial into my mouth. My eyes close."
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"M. Myriel had to undergo the fate of every newcomer in a little town, where there are many mouths which talk, and very few heads which think."
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"The word liberty in the mouth of Mr. Webster sounds like the word love in the mouth of a courtesan."
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