Mouth

Mouth

In animal anatomy, the mouth is the first portion of the alimentary canal that receives food.

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Famous quotes containing the word mouth:

    “Praise is not seemly in the mouth of a sinner, for it was not sent him of the Lord.”
    —Apocrypha. Ecclesiasticus 15:9.

    “When Pan sounds up his minstrelsy;
    His minstrelsy! O base! This quill,
    Which at my mouth with wind I fill,
    Puts me in mind, though her I miss,
    That still my Syrinx’ lips I kiss.”
    —John Lyly (1553–1606)

    “his mouth redeemed
    His insufficient eyes, forever sad:
    In them there was no life-glimpse, good or bad,
    Nor joy nor passion in them ever gleamed;”
    —Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869–1935)