jaw-bones

And the White House no longer even jaw-bones Wall Street's excesses.

Les Leopold: Stop Socialism for the Rich: Nationalize Wall Street 2009

In the former, the face, formed largely by the massive jaw-bones, predominates over the brain case, or cranium proper: in the latter, the proportions of the two are reversed.

Essays 2007

He was rather like a horse altogether: he thudded with his feet as though they had been hoofs, did not laugh but neighed, opening his jaws till you could see right down his throat — and he had a long face, a hooked nose and big, flat jaw-bones; he wore a shaggy frieze, full-skirted coat, and smelt of raw meat.

The Watch 2006

Among the rubbish at the base of the wall there were some human fragments partly covered with matting; a little farther some jaw-bones with the teeth in them, then four more crosses, and some human heads lying at the foot of the wall, from which it was evident that dogs had partially gnawed off the matting in which they had been tied up.

The Golden Chersonese and the way thither Isabella Lucy 2004

Prognathism is that projection of the jaw-bones which sharpens or lessons this angle, and which is illustrated in the negro countenance and in the lowest savages.

Journey to the Interior of the Earth 2003

We also found several petrified jaw-bones, of what looked to be wolves, still containing the teeth, and fossils of many kinds.

The Sheep Eaters William Alonzo Allen

He opened the other wide so that it was as big as the mouth of a mead-cup. [a] He stretched his mouth from his jaw-bones to his ears; he opened his mouth wide to his jaw so that his gullet was seen.

The Ancient Irish Epic Tale Táin Bó Cúalnge Unknown

Before their day, it was a cemetery; and here they disinterred many a mouldering skeleton, belonging it seems, to that gigantic eight or nine feet race of men of past days, whose jaw-bones so many vivacious persons have clapped over their own, like horse-collars, without laying by a single one to convince the soul of scepticism.

Rambles in the Mammoth Cave, during the Year 1844 By a Visiter Alexander Clark Bullitt

The drought continues: For my part, I have not fill'd my belly this twelve-month: A plague on these clerks of the market, the baker and they juggle together; take no notice of me, I'll take no notice of thee; which make the poorer sort labour for nothing, while those greater jaw-bones make festival every day.

The Satyricon of Petronius Arbiter 20-66 Petronius Arbiter

Christians, you see, were always lecturing the other fellows, so their jaw-bones grew to an awful size.

A Voyage of Consolation (being in the nature of a sequel to the experiences of 'An American girl in London') Sara Jeannette Duncan