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In Balzac, which I know by heart, in Shakespeare, which I have just begun to love, I find words deeply impregnated with the savour of life; but in George Meredith there is nothing but crackjaw sentences, empty and unpleasant in the mouth as sterile nuts.
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(_aside_) Now for some crackjaw, mystic apophthegm.
Turandot: The Chinese Sphinx Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller 1782
mollusque commented on the word crackjaw
Difficult to pronounce. (Listed in MW3.)
November 12, 2007
reesetee commented on the word crackjaw
Especially if your jaw happens to be in this condition. ;-)
November 12, 2007