Word: mouths
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...followed by a dash. Yet the anecdote is otherwise well told. "Phoebe Southerly" follows; being an account of the conversation of a skull, suspended from the ceiling by a cord, with a young man. The picture of the man with his pioe half way to his mouth listening to the words of a pretty skull, which now and then smiles oddly is ludicrous, to say the least...
...Tiber, etc. It is surprising to learn that almost one thousand volumes have been written about this famous river. As the Tiber is the great waterway from Rome to the Sea, it is natural that Ancus Martius, one of its early kings, should have founded Ostia Tiberina at the mouth of the river...
What will our friends that walk leisurely to the morning, noon, and afternoon lectures with glowing pipe in mouth, say, when they hear that no tobacco could be used "unless permitted by the President with the consent of parents and guardians and on good reason first given by a physician"? Or can any one conceive of the Bursar's frame of mind, if some of us with a love for antiquity were to revert to an ancient custom of our fathers and pay our term bills in kind instead of in cash? What bliss to see him enter "butter, cheese...
...senses and organs are dulled, and pain vanishes. But the action of the brain also is impaired by it, so that no good work can be accomplished after taking alcohol. Its effect on sick people is often beneficial; and affords a stimulating tone to the nerves of the mouth and stomach. This, however, can as well be gained by such drinks as milk or effervescent waters. One and a half fluid ounces of alcohol, the equivalent of a half glass of sherry, in twenty-four hours is the limit of its useful effect. The craving for alcohol is a disease...
...spinal column, the rake of a fin - which go to determine the difference between one specie and another. The fangs of snakes are also curious things, those of the water-moccasin being the largest and most deadly. They lie hid in two sacs in the roof of the mouth, and are hidden, when the snake is quiet, like a cat's claws. The snake has regular noxillaries like any other carnivore, though it does not masticate its food. The fangs are only used when the beast is angry, and are thrown forward and filled with the poison...