lantern-jaws

Hornblower could imagine the lantern-jaws working in surprise, and he ignored the mumblings.

Hornblower And The Hotspur Forester, C. S. 1962

His appearance was that of an elderly _hidalgo_, dressed in mourning, with moustaches of iron-gray carefully waxed and twisted around a pair of lantern-jaws.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 72, October, 1863 Various

There were several others of whom I was not so sure, sitting at the other side of the table, but I conjecture that both Fielding and Richardson were among them, and I could swear to the lantern-jaws and cadaverous visage of

The Captain of the Polestar Arthur Conan Doyle 1894

There were several others of whom I was not so sure, sitting at the other side of the table, but I conjecture that both Fielding and Richardson were among them, and I could swear to the lantern-jaws and cadaverous visage of Lawrence Sterne.

The Captain of the Polestar and other Tales 1894

When he came to the surface and looked up, he saw through a cloud of smoke on the rail the lantern-jaws of Mr. Todd working convulsively on pipe and cigar, and heard the angry utterance: "Yes, d-- n ye, I smoke."

"Where Angels Fear to Tread" and Other Stories of the Sea Morgan Robertson 1888

The other was a god-like creature, a poet by profession, with long lantern-jaws, grey eyes deeply set, and a mass of curly black hair, from which the face with its pallor and its distinction, shone dimly out like the portrait of a Cinquecento.

Delia Blanchflower Humphry Ward 1885

His appearance was that of an elderly hidalgo, dressed in mourning, with mustaches of iron-gray carefully waxed and twisted around a pair of lantern-jaws.

Legends and Tales Bret Harte 1869

His appearance was that of an elderly hidalgo, dressed in mourning, with mustaches of iron-gray carefully waxed and twisted round a pair of lantern-jaws.

The Luck of Roaring Camp and Other Tales With Condensed Novels, Spanish and American Legends, and Earlier Papers Bret Harte 1869

The one was the black shock-head of the groom; the other, graced with a long thrum nightcap, showed a grizzled pate, and a grave caricatured countenance, which the hook-nose and lantern-jaws proclaimed to belong to the Gallic minister of good cheer, whose praises he had heard sung forth on the preceding evening.

Peveril of the Peak 1822

Nor must we omit his meagerness and entire featureliness, face and frame, which Cervantes gives us at once: "It is said that his surname was 'Quixada' or 'Quesada,'" &c. -- even in this trifle showing an exquisite judgment; -- just once insinuating the association of 'lantern-jaws' into the reader's mind, yet not retaining it obtrusively like the names in old farces and in the Pilgrim's

Literary Remains, Volume 1 Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1803