full-mouthed
Example Sentences
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He moved a step or two till he was in front of Will, and said with full-mouthed haste, "Excuse me, Mr. Ladislaw—was your mother's name Sarah Dunkirk?"
From Middlemarch by Eliot, George
Here the hearty old fellow stopped to laugh, which he did exactly in the full-mouthed, contented way in which he spoke and did everything else.
From The Chainbearer Or, The Littlepage Manuscripts by Cooper, James Fenimore
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)
We are boasters, they tell, and full-mouthed, but why should we keep hidden and unshared the all-golden treasures of our fields?
From Seeds of Pine by Canuck, Janey
What doubling shifts He tries! not more the wily hare; in these Would still persist, did not the full-mouthed pack _410 With dreadful concert thunder in his rear.
