full-mouthed
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The pompous hydraulic organ no longer thunders its "full-mouthed diapason," but the nightingales fill the long summer nights with their surges of wild rhapsodies.
From Romance of Roman Villas (The Renaissance) by Champney, Elizabeth W. (Elizabeth Williams)
"You——" And some doubted the bird's sojourn on a sailing-vessel in the full-rigged, full-mouthed days of 1840!
From The Hawk of Egypt by Conquest, Joan
One o’ the full-mouthed sheep as we had then broke away, and 140 went straight over river, and it ain’t very narrow there, as you minds.
From 'Murphy' A Message to Dog Lovers by Gambier-Parry, Ernest
Now eat, brothers," cried the bowman, full-mouthed, "eat and spare not, as I do, for to-day I smell the battle from afar: Ho!
From Beltane the Smith by Farnol, Jeffery
In Webster’s orations there is a dignity, a sublimity, gained by the use of full-mouthed polysyllables.
From English: Composition and Literature by Webster, W. F. (William Franklin)
