Now Dingaan, whose shadow lies upon the land, the king whom I serve, and who sits in the place of the Black One who is gone, speaks to you by me, his mouth.
It is well for you, O Mouth," he said, "that I swore safe conduct to you, else you had not gone hence--else you had been served as I served certain soldiers who in bygone years were sent to search out one Umslopogaas.
They ascended the Missouri, passed through the stupendous gates of the Rocky Mountains, hitherto unknown to white men; discovered and explored the upper waters of the Columbia, and followed that river down to its mouth, where their countryman, Gray, had anchored about twelve years previously.
The main feature of his scheme was to establish a line of trading posts along the Missouri and the Columbia, to the mouth of the latter, where was to be founded the chief trading house or mart.
In desperation the smaller of the two Assassins pulled out a long knife from his pocket, and tried to pry Pinocchio's
mouth open with it.
And in another isle are men that have flat faces without nose and without eyes, but they have two small round holes instead of eyes and they have a flat mouth without lips.
And in another isle are men that have the lips about their mouth so great that when they sleep in the sun they cover all their face with the lip.
All eyes were fixed upon the yawning
mouth of the Columbiad.
I struggled around to no purpose in the bottom of the junk, while my legs and arms were tied and my
mouth securely bound in what I afterward found to be a cotton shirt.
We see the same great law in the construction of the
mouths of insects: what can be more different than the immensely long spiral proboscis of a sphinx-moth, the curious folded one of a bee or bug, and the great jaws of a beetle?
Sancho came so close that he almost put his eyes into his
mouth; now just at that moment the balsam had acted on the stomach of Don Quixote, so, at the very instant when Sancho came to examine his
mouth, he discharged all its contents with more force than a musket, and full into the beard of the compassionate squire.
Even as she waxed impatient, the chance came, and Joe whipped his fist to Ponta's
mouth.
