masticate

• Satisfaction sat his angular face as he began to masticate, and he watched the billowing smoke, the showering clouds of sparks, without visible concern That guy's got nerve," Renny told Long Tom quietly He may be deeper than his dumb actions indicate," Long Tom pointed out pessimistically. —  018 - The Squeaking Goblin
• Anything small enough for a cow or deer to masticate was browse. —  Woodcraft
• All our churches have many grown babies, and cases of arrested development--people that ought to be living on strong meat, and are unable to masticate or digest it, and by their own fault have still need of the milk of infancy. —  Expositions of Holy Scripture Second Corinthians, Galatians, and Philippians Chapters I to End. Colossians, Thessalonians, and First Timothy.
• That vivacious traveller, Pere Huc, tells us he has seen a Tartar chief at dinner gravely hand over to an underling a piece of gristle he found himself unable to masticate, and that the gift was received with every semblance of gratitude and delight. —  Americans and Others
• [9] Most of them had not power to masticate or to swallow For every tongue, through utter drought Was withered at the root COLERIDGE (_Ancient Mariner Before evening death had made fearful ravages, and had numbered amongst its victims Captain Palmer and the first lieutenant Another night came on; long and anxiously had they gazed upon the horizon--in vain had they strained their blood-shot eyes to see some vessel coming to their relief. —  Narratives of Shipwrecks of the Royal Navy; between 1793 and 1849

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