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"Jawbone" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... copper weight. He didn't dream any more than the Chink, but coming back he stopped for hawksbill turtle at the very beach where you say the mate of the Flirt was killed. Only he wasn't killed. The Banks Islanders held him prisoner, and he was dying of necrosis of the jawbone, caused by an arrow wound in the fight on the beach. Before he died he told the yarn to Johnny Black. Johnny Black wrote my father from Levuka. He was at the end of his rope—cancer. My father, ten ...
— A Son Of The Sun • Jack London
... The poor beast dropped and brought down his frightened, kicking, companion mule also. The drivers had released them by the time Major Veasey and I came up. The wounded mule found his feet, and was led a few yards away. A horrible tear, 8 inches long, showed a smashed jawbone and cheekbone; he moved his head from side to side in his pain. "I shall have to shoot him," said the major, loading his revolver. The mule stared dully as the major approached, but drew back sharply ...
— Pushed and the Return Push • George Herbert Fosdike Nichols, (AKA Quex) |
Words linked to "Jawbone" : confab, natter, articulator, coronoid process of the mandible, symphysion, shoot the breeze, chit-chat, mandibular condyle, visit, condyloid process, condylar process, chaffer, lower jaw, chew the fat, mandibular bone, upper jawbone, jaw, jowl, mandibular notch, schmoose, schmooze, gonion, gossip, chat, submaxilla, chatter, mandibula, shmoose, gnathion |
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