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The Khleevi tried to touch her, but quickly retracted their pincers and jaws,
Massage 2010
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With something proud on his face, so proud no smash of the jaws,
Aztec Mask 1916
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Pluck the keen teeth from the fierce tigers jaws,
Sonnet 19 1914
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She was small and wizened and old, with yellow, flabby jaws,
The Goodness of St. Rocque and Other Stories Alice Moore Dunbar-Nelson 1905
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And there beneath their shadow, blood drippin 'from his jaws,
Songs Of The Road Arthur Conan Doyle 1894
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He was in a fit of convulsive rage terrible to look upon; leaping, turning, writhing, threshing about in the water, beating it with his mighty tail and great flukes, thundering upon it with all his force, and all the while opening and shutting his enormous jaws,
South American Fights and Fighters And Other Tales of Adventure Cyrus Townsend Brady 1890
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Hangs quivering out between his dust-smear'd jaws,
Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold Matthew Arnold 1855
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Cheer'd their swift dogs; these shunn'd the lions 'jaws,
The Iliad 750? BC-650? BC Homer 1834
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But God will make them know that he has a hook for their nose and a bridle for their jaws,
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi) 1721
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Most of those injured had broken and fractured bones and jaws,
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