black-mouthed

Cheever invariably described his uncle as a "black-mouthed old wreck" or "monkey," since their occasional meetings were not happy.

'Cheever: A Life' 2009

Beneath Mount Copleston a thunderous waterfall poured off the tundra into a deep pool where we landed seven char — silver-sided hens and black-mouthed males with hooked jaws.

The Great Alaskan Cast and Blast 2004

A little way from the church we crossed a road running into San Jorge, and, looking up, saw a high log-barricade, some fifty rods off, with embrasures and black-mouthed cannon frowning down on us.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 27, January, 1860 Various

Then Bill started a blaze roaring in the black-mouthed fireplace -- to make it look natural, he said -- and went out to hobble his horses for the night.

North of Fifty-Three Bertrand W. Sinclair 1926

He stopped before a black-mouthed chasm, two or three hundred yards along the smallest subdivision of the cavern, and called for lights and a rope.

The Ivory Trail Mundy, Talbot, 1879-1940 1920

Here the Bird swooped downwards and alighted before a black-mouthed cave.

Edmund Dulac's Fairy-Book Fairy Tales of the Allied Nations Edmund Dulac 1917

He stopped before a black-mouthed chasm, two or three hundred yards along the smallest subdivision of the cavern, and called for lights and

The Ivory Trail Talbot Mundy 1909

Through the windows of the brick walls peered the black-mouthed guns trained across the water.

The Southerner A Romance of the Real Lincoln Thomas Dixon 1905

And then a sheet of blinding flame from every black-mouthed gun in line double shotted with grape and canister!

The Southerner A Romance of the Real Lincoln Thomas Dixon 1905

Up and up he followed the winding of that narrow trail, and came out at last upon a rocky platform before a black-mouthed cave.

Kings in Exile Charles George Douglas Roberts 1901