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  • In his vocabulary was no word for “crocodile”; yet in his thought, as potent as any utterable word, was an image of dreadful import — an image of a log awash that was not a log and that was alive, that could swim upon the surface, under the surface, and haul out across the dry land, that was huge-toothed, mighty-mawed, and certain death to a swimming dog.

    CHAPTER XX 2010

  • Joel McHale, Tom Papa, Patton Oswalt, Andrew Daly, Ann Cusack, Tony Hale, and even Tom and Dick Smothers -- yes, the Smothers Brothers are in this movie -- are cast as the characters who basically look at Matt Damon's character with gaping-mawed amazement at the biosphere of bullshit he's created.

    Rabid Rewind: The Informant 2010

  • Or is there skullduggery afoot with the gaping mawed spam trap, login pitfalls et al?

    Cheeseburger Gothic » Anyone besides Orin and me watching Stargate Universe? 2009

  • Today, the Lebanese Army announced that they destroyed "the house" of Sharkir Al-`Absi oh, yeah, he kept a house in the camp, with a street number, and regularly mawed his lawn too, and found "important documents".

    Monday, June 11, 2007 As'ad 2007

  • The opening to the main staircase mawed in front of them, brightly lit and covered in plush carpet.

    Dirty Little Lies Julie Leto 2006

  • The opening to the main staircase mawed in front of them, brightly lit and covered in plush carpet.

    Dirty Little Lies Julie Leto 2006

  • It consisted of nearly three tons of steel stamped into a massively mawed, high-tailed beast, lined with enough chrome to build a Terminator and still have parts left over — most of it in long, sharp strips that peeled off on impact and became lethal scythes to flay away pedestrian flesh.

    A Dirty Job HTML Moore, Christopher 2006

  • They grew into huge, drooling-mawed carnivorous plants fit to inhabit the crudest jungle of nightmare.

    The Black Company Cook, Glen 1984

  • The bulging sac of the female was an arm's length away, the orange slug-mawed crown drooling its vomit stench as it gilled the planet's thin air.

    In Other Worlds Attanasio, A. A. 1984

  • There were needle-nosed garfish pug-nosed toadfish, fanged barracuda, a cavernous-mawed grouper lurking half seen in a grotto, and once a sleek grey nurse shark which seemed to take forever to pass silently beneath them.

    The Thorn Birds McCullough, Colleen 1977

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