Word: mouth
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...eyes hast thou, and but one mouth...
...hands hast thou and but one mouth...
...Spirit of the Times is very much grieved over the treatment that the Inter-Collegiate Athletic Association has received at the hands of the National Amateur Athletic Association, and the Yale News takes the same text and adopts as its own the complaints which are put into its mouth by the Spirit...
...days came round pudding and cabbage, wild peas and dandelions were added. The only delicacy to which no stint was applied was the cider, a beverage then fast supplanting the small beer of the Colonial days. This was brought to the men in pewter cans, which were passed from mouth to mouth, and when emptied were again replenished. For supper there was a bowl of milk and a size of bread. The hungry Oliver who wished for more was forced to order, or, as the phrase went, "size it" from the kitchen. - [From McMaster's History of the United States...
...stately way along the boards with a polka-mazurka step, each man puffing his chest with martial ardor, and grinning as his Darwinian ancestors did when skipping playfully among the tree-tops. The ease of their postures, the classic, statuesque grace of their attitudes, with head on one side, mouth stretched from ear to ear, and arms akimbo, never fail and never can fail to elicit deafening plaudits from the house...