full-mouthed
Example Sentences
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He moved a step or two till he was in front of Will, and said with full-mouthed haste, "Excuse me, Mr. Ladislaw—was your mother's name Sarah Dunkirk?"
From Middlemarch by Eliot, George
We are boasters, they tell, and full-mouthed, but why should we keep hidden and unshared the all-golden treasures of our fields?
From Seeds of Pine by Canuck, Janey
"You——" And some doubted the bird's sojourn on a sailing-vessel in the full-rigged, full-mouthed days of 1840!
From The Hawk of Egypt by Conquest, Joan
The pompous hydraulic organ no longer thunders its "full-mouthed diapason," but the nightingales fill the long summer nights with their surges of wild rhapsodies.
From Romance of Roman Villas (The Renaissance) by Champney, Elizabeth W. (Elizabeth Williams)
Lunch at the huts was a hasty meal, with a gabble of full-mouthed and excited talking.
From Omnilingual by Freas, Kelly
