Potential Titles: Jaw

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Day closes its jaws - William Brewer "Oxyana, West Virginia"

With gently smiling jaws - Lewis Carroll "The Crocodile"

With crimson-dashed and eager jaws - Lewis Carroll "The Three Voices: The Third Voice"

I fight for your name held in his jaws - Andrea Cote "Somber Bull" transl. by Craig Epplin

Burst wide their glowing jaws - Isabella Valancy Crawford "The Sword"

Which we wrung from the the red jaws of hell - Crosscut, 16th Battalion, AIF "How I Won the V.C." [The Anzac Book: Written and Illustrated in Gallipoli by the Men of Anzac, 1916]

By Neptune's wild and foamy jaws - Rev. William Crowe "Lewesdon Hill"

Which dead in great fishes' jaws - John Donne "The Calm"

Left her within the jaws of death - Catherine Ann Turner Dorset "Think Before You Speak; Or, The Three Wishes"

From the jaws of the liquid beast - Rudy Francisco "Water"

The deep, black jaws of cold annihilation - S. Virginia French "The 'Still Small Voice'"

From skeletons with toothless jaws - Ellen Glasgow "The Hunter"

From the ice-fanged polar jaws - Louis Golding "The Advent of Mars"

the second hand a steel jaw I have set in the snow - Jim Heston "In the Time of Lycanthropy"

Down into the jawbone of the earth - Tony Hoagland "Scotch Tape"

Had been climbing the jaws of hell - E.W. Hornung "The Ballad of Ensign Joy"

My jaws have collected accusations - Honoree Fanonne Jeffers "Naming Ceremony"

Makes the power of the Lion's jaw - Emily Pauline Johnson "The Riders of the Plain"

Safe from the wolf's black jaw - Ben Jonson "To Himself"

Ate leaves until your jaw ached with ash - Vandana Khanna "Goddess Out of Favor"

Crack your jaw on a chandelier - Aimee Le "Theft"

sought in the forest's frozen jaws - Yoon Ha Lee "Thrice"

Shot flames where the jaws of darkness gape - Harry Martinson "Aniara 77" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

Jaws that dripped with bitter fire - John Masefield "The Hounds of Hell"

a little jut of thought in her jaw - Pattie McCarthy "a woman peeling apples, with a small child"

A myth to hook my leviathan jaw - Rajiv Mohabir "Vestigial Bones"

To seek within the jaws of death - William Morris "I Know a Little Garden-Close"

An apartment building of locked jaws - Sahar Muradi "All I can see is nothing"

Hide in my jaw disguised as a song - Angel Nafis "I Know I'm Pretty Cuz the Boys Tell Me So"

Until I reach the jaws of gold - Pablo Neruda "Elegy" transl. by Jack Schmitt

Into the open jaws of our separate lanes - Idra Novey "Value City"

Shut within earth's jaws - "The Pearl" transl. by Sophie Jewett

Teeth plucked from howling jaws - Xan Forest Phillips "A Fruit We Never Tasted"

Shield her from the jaws of flame - Winthrop Mackworth Praed "The Legend of the Drachenfels"

No Hamlet hold my jaws and speak - Carl Sandburg "Bones"

With their hands on the jaws of death - Carl Sandburg "Jaws"

Night's gloomy jaws veil him darkly - Friedrich Schiller "Monument of Moor the Robber"

A jaw slackened into an open dream - Leslie Contreras Schwartz "A Body's Universe of Big Bangs"

Confront the battery's jaws of flame - Sir Walter Scott "The Field of Waterloo"

Keen teeth from the fierce tiger's jaws - William Shakespeare "Sonnet XIX"

Stony face with bulldog jaws - Diane Wakoski "The Photos"


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