jawful

The more times she manages to snatch a jawful of a forbidden substance – a chair-leg, a pillow, a running shoe – the more readily she’ll target those items in future.

World Chewing | Surveillance 2008

Never removing its cautious eyes from the woman, the dog awkwardly dragged the jawful into a corner and instantly gnawed at the bone with lustful bites.

Their Dogs Came With Them Helena María Viramontes 2007

They had to be ready with their bayonets, as sign of hyenas was common; and the beast, which slinks away in the open is apt, when brought to bay in caverns, to rush past the intruder, carrying off a jawful of calf or thigh.

The Land of Midian 2003

"That Iverson was a useless son-of-a-bitch," the Cap­tain said around his own jawful of jerky.

Prayers To Broken Stones Simmons, Dan 1990

I've never been the dog to drop a good jawful of solids to snap at its shadow.

The Shadow of a Crime A Cumbrian Romance Hall Caine 1892

All edible things are united for the measure of the date, and all drinkable things are united for the measure of the jawful.

Hebrew Literature Epiphanius Wilson 1880

The person who eats the size of a big date and its grain, and drinks a jawful, is liable to punishment.

Hebrew Literature Epiphanius Wilson 1880

They had to be ready with their bayonets, as sign of hyenas was common; and the beast, which slinks away in the open is apt, when brought to bay in caverns, to rush past the intruder, carrying off a jawful of calf or thigh.

The Land of Midian — Volume 2 Richard Francis Burton 1855

“Bite me,” I whispered at the jaundiced half-werewolf moon, “and you’ll get a jawful of broken fangs.”

Silver Zombie Carole Nelson Douglas 2010

o 'bacca, for a whole jawful of tooth-aches: I'll tell you, dame, what I did with them ere crocks, wholes, and parts.

The Complete Prose Works of Martin Farquhar Tupper Martin Farquhar Tupper 1849