Word: mouthes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...dressing room, Basilio sat back and blew through his mouth. "Whew," he said, "No sense of crying. He kicked the hell out of me. So what's the sense...
...high Montana country west of Yellowstone Park, a full moon, shining on the pine-covered mountains, etched the thin, black notch of canyon where the trout-filled Madison River winds away from Hebgen Lake. Near the canyon mouth, seven miles below the Montana Power Co.'s 87-ft.-high dam, Purley R. Bennett, a Coeur d'Alene, Idaho truck driver, and his wife Irene had gone to sleep in their trailer. Outside, their three sons and daughter were rolled up in sleeping bags on the ground. At 11:30 p.m. an "indescribable" roar woke them all. What followed...
Thus encouraged, the researchers found another volunteer, 54 and blind since birth. His discomfort was more severe than the first subject's, but his case also yielded more knowledge: sulfadiazine, taken by mouth, cured his infection...
...most valuable resources in the whole punctuational arsenal; and others, especially in epistolary usage, seem never to have heard of anything but the dash--unless it be the triple exclamation point! And even such a splendid and important novel as Joyce Cary's The Horse's Mouth is marred by horrible punctuation, particularly the author's evidently insatiable passion for the period...
...when she saw the Duke de la Rochefoucauld staggering toward her, "having received a musket-ball through his eyes and nose, so that his eyes seemed to be falling out, and he kept blowing the blood away as though he feared one of his eyes might fall into his mouth...