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  • I dunno, Catherine .. it looks mouth-drying to me …

    Caribbean Spice Cart Distinguishes Itself With Coco Bread & Roti | Midtown Lunch - Finding Lunch in the Food Wasteland of NYC's Midtown Manhattan 2008

  • The Brit stepped out of the trousers and danced like he hit the clubs every weekend and most weeknights, moving his hips with mouth-drying suggestiveness, muscles rippling like water.

    Black Dust Mambo Adrian Phoenix 2010

  • Though the services generally do a good job of defining those mouth-drying concepts like "" negative amortization, '' brokers say that the Net can't replace a professional who helps clients slice through the voluminous paperwork and answers questions they don't even know to ask.

    Dial Up A Mortgage 2008

  • She wondered if Mariam too had been seized all night by bouts of euphoria and attacks of mouth-drying anxiety.

    A Thousand Splendid Suns Hosseini, Khaled 2007

  • Clive had worked his way down the office social scale and was now questioning a seventeen-year-old typist with a lisp and a quivering, mouth-drying, figure.

    Frost at Christmas Wingfield, R. D. 1984

  • Not as full-bodied as I had expected with more red fruits on the palate and mouth-drying tannins on the long finish.

    CellarTracker Tasting Notes (all notes) 2010

  • No, it's Stephen King country, a collection of horror stories every bit as mouth-drying and finger-curling as Kathy Bates's taking the lumber to James Caan in "Misery."

    One Thousand Reasons 2009

  • No, it's Stephen King country, a collection of horror stories every bit as mouth-drying and finger-curling as Kathy Bates's taking the lumber to James Caan in "Misery."

    One Thousand Reasons 2009

  • Mainstream depictions of sexiness often bypass female desire entirely because they bypass the jaw-dropping, mouth-drying, knee-weakening sexiness of guys.

    Lust Bites 2008

  • It's a mouth-drying scenario, one likely to move Congress to fast action.

    Forbes.com: News 2008

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