Plutarch tells us that all the Cimbrian horsemen wore helmets made in the form of the open jaws and muzzles of all kinds of strange and savage animals, and surmounted these by plumes shaped like wings, and of a prodigious height.
I am a man whom Providence seems to have chosen to rescue the prey from the jaws of a usurer.
They are lost sheep, to be sought amid woods and thorns, especially when they call so piteously to be rescued from the jaws of the wolf.
When it was known that their prayers were heard, and that he was restored to them from the jaws of death, the reaction was like a national frenzy.
With this I succeeded in prying my jaws apart, and with a few crumbs of tobacco which I found in my pants' pocket, I found relief.
With a hind foot on each spring and his mighty shoulders underneath the tree, he bore down with his titanic strength: the great steel springs gave way, the jaws relaxed, and he tore out his foot.
The luckless lady was but a child at the time she was devoured by "the jaws of darkness.
Sometimes, when digging into the burrows, one of these giants has unperceived climbed up my dress, and the first intimation of his presence has been the burying of his jaws in my neck, from which he would not fail to draw the blood.
These they go about holding wide open in a threatening manner, and I found, contrary to my expectation, that they could give a severe bite with them, and that it was difficult to withdraw the jaws from the skin again.
The natives say they are catching flies, that numbers are attracted by the saliva of the mouth, and that when sufficient are collected, the alligator closes its jaws upon them, but I do not know that any reliance can be placed on the story.
Sonnenkamp had clenched his fists, as if he were clutching an antagonist by the throat; his eyes flashed, his lips opened, and his jaws snapped together like a tiger leaping upon his prey.
I have not written for five days, and now, mother, the man who is writing to you has been, with his nearest and dearest, in the jaws of death.
The remaining three thrust and thrust and struggled senselessly,--and suddenly it was on its back, still striking its gigantic jawsfrantically in the hope of murder.
Burl glared at his tribesmen, clamping his jaws tight lest they chatter.
A great grasshopper crouched on the ground, its tremendous radially-opening jaws crunching the rank vegetation.
Burl saw the heavy armor and inward-curving jaws of the monster.
The shrunken head-armor of a beetle, the fierce jaws of a cricket, the pitiful shreds of dozens of creatures--all had once provided meals for the monster in the castle.
It poised itself abruptly above the pool, and then darted down, its jaws snapping viciously.
Tiny, voracious jaws tore at the flaccid masses of greasy flesh.
It was Sailor (who always slept near me) out on the cockpit with a man under his paws--his jaws at the man's throat.
Even Sailor caught the infection, his big tongue shaking his jaws with the huge joke of it.
They listened with fallen lower jaws and occasional attempts to seem intelligent.
Flying from Charlie's gun, the unfortunate duck had landed right into the jaws of the snake!
A gaunt head suddenly shot through the aperture, and a pair of frothy jaws closed with a snap on the sleeve of Hamp's jacket.
His greatjaws were open, and his tail lashed the brush angrily.
Loud clicking snaps must have been a clashing of his jaws in rage.
Helen saw his face fully in the light, and it was thin and hard, darkly bronzed, with eyes like those of a hawk, and with square chin and lean jaws showing scant, light beard.
In vain; he received no welcoming snap from the empty jaws of the familiar pelt.
His small eyes gleamed redly, and his heavy breath rushed like steam from an engine through his great distended nostrils, while his heavy jawscrashed together like the fall of a woodman’s axe, as he ran blindly on.
Its head was round, but flattened at the top of its skull, and its jaws were beautifully marked and lined out with dark streakings.
O shepherds, that keep Your folds full of sheep, The wolf was only wrong, Because, so to speak, His jaws were too weak To break your palings strong.
But quite too late, for in his jaws The cat already held the mouse.
The sun hurt them not by day, nor the moon by night; the earth opened no more her jaws into the pit; the sea whitened no more against them the teeth of his devouring waves.
Look how the Python's jaws smoke as he falls back between the rocks:--a vaporous serpent!
It was like rushing into the very jaws of hell, with mines exploding all about her, solid shot and bursting shells tearing at her vitals, and a cloud of Mauser bullets buzzing like hornets across her deck.
It is when one comes to the consideration of the face as a complex of brows, eyes, nose, lips and jaws that he becomes most interested.
Sure enough, there was a young heifer lying on its side, with the unmistakable deep pits where the jaws of the panther had gripped its throat, and a gory cavity where it had selected a gigot for its dinner.
You hear its jaws working--crunch, crunch, crunch, but feel too drowsy to get up and expel it.
Through the cat to the monkeys the process proceeds, the forehead advancing, the jaws retreating, and the nostrils leaving the lips, until they finally settle in a detached villa midway between the eyes and the mouth.
In the old Portuguese fort of Bassein in Western India I noticed that the earth at the foot of a ruined tower was plentifully mixed with small skulls, jaws and other bones.
Then the ample wings may suddenly enfold the sleeping body, and the savage jawsgrip the startled head before there is time even to scream.
Jaws of rope are the interstices between the strands of rope.
I have often watched shags thus throwing up their heads and opening and shutting their jaws at one another, and though I have generally been fairly close to them I have never heard them utter a note whilst so doing.
I removed some of the old fractures or splinters of the teeth and jaws that were left, about 3 o'clock a.
Hoadley, Tenth Vermont, and other of the color guard like them, to keep them there, for such men would go wherever told to, if into the very jaws of death.
My wound is paining me more than usual tonight; jawsin bad condition; hope the fractures will heal all right.
My teeth and jaws have troubled me constantly, but I feel more comfortable this evening; shall go down to Aunt Howe's in the morning.
My wounds were very painful during the night, my lips and face are terribly swollen and my jaws are in shocking condition, but I'm thankful it is no worse.
My teeth andjaws are feeling very badly and my lip looks irritated.
He snaps his jaws suddenly on the air) THE MOTH: I'm a tiny tiny thing Ever flying in the spring Round and round a ringaring.
He yawns, showing a coalblack throat, and closes his jaws by an upward push of his parchmentroll) After having said which I took my departure.
After consulting with my mates, it was agreed that at all events we should, if possible, avoid the jaws of the monster.
Watching our opportunity, when the serpent lifted his jaws a little, we let the cask float into his mouth.
I never ran so fast in my life before, and good reason I had to put my best leg forward, for, in the course of a minute, there were a thousand bears at my heels, every one of them licking their jaws with the thoughts of dining off me.
We were now near enough for our long eights to tell, and the very first shot, flying high, knocked away the jaws of the enemy's main gaff, wounding at the same time the head of the mainmast.
His immense jaws were wide open, showing a dozen rows of teeth, while his large eyes projected on either side; and I don't think I exaggerate when I say that the tip of his upper jaw was fully sixty feet above the surface of the water.
I meantime kept a taut hold of the fish, who was whisking about his tail, and snapping his jaws in his disappointment; and hard work I had, you may depend on't.
Alone in that rock-encompassed cabin in the realms of desolation, and still the heroine-guardian who had snatched thirty fellow beings from the jaws of death.
Tears were in his eyes as he looked at her, and his jaws were set firmly.
She asked herself the question as she sat there, but the mere thought of it made her face grow hot, and her jaws set defiantly.
She was trying so hard to keep back the tears, and in the effort her jaws were set and her brows drawn together stormily.
He doubted whether to try it did not mean running into the very jaws of the lion.
The cacique gathered up the buckskin riata of his plump mustang, which stood there champing the Spanish ring-bit till his jaws dropped flakes of foam, and retired to a safe distance.
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