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)
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)
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
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
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.
