Word: mouth
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...inferred easily enough from its title. Several undergraduates, owners of valuable dogs, formed the plan of meeting and consulting together in regard to the feeding and management of their canines. We suppose questions like the following will be discussed: "Does the practice of holding a dog's mouth so that he cannot howl while being castigated for misdemeanor further the best interests of the dog?" "Is there any limit to a dog's capacity for eating...
What is here known as a "squirt" is called at other places a "rowl" or "rush." The analogy between the sudden ejection of water from a pipe and the quick and forcible expulsion of words from the mouth probably gave rise to this word, which so aptly expresses what it is intended to by sound merely. At some colleges a person of a religious turn of mind is variously denominated "evangelical," "long-ear," and "donkey." I confess myself as ignorant of the similarity which exists between these terms and that which they define as any from the ranks...
...That mouth, so large, so grim...
...articulate sounds, and the very rattle of its inside rollers, toothed wheels, and springs, as heard when it talked, imparted to its language a genuine English accent. Again, in one of his short stories, he describes English pronunciation and language as follows: "They take a dozen monosyllables into their mouth, chew them, crunch them, spit them out again - and this is what they call speaking...
...down as the capital of Spain; Geneva was transferred to Italy. The Rhine was said to flow into the Atlantic, the Danube into the Baltic. An example comes to our mind of a candidate for admission to Harvard College giving the width of the Amazon River at its mouth as about two miles, and the length of the Mississippi as ten thousand miles; another confidently affirmed Maine to be a coffee-growing State. We recently saw a paper directed to the Reading-room "Herveford College...