'jowl' of earthenware -- that was the local word for it -- a batch of dough was set before a fire to rise. From Wordnik.com. [Despair's Last Journey] Reference
From this we saluted the semi-lunar jowl of the moon. From Wordnik.com. [THE BOOK OF SUCH ~ a suite of poems] Reference
Paymaster, laughing till his jowl purpled over his stock. From Wordnik.com. [Gilian The Dreamer His Fancy, His Love and Adventure] Reference
He shot a quick glance of dislike at Richford's heavy jowl. From Wordnik.com. [The Slave of Silence] Reference
Short, thick neck and, I feel sure, round face and heavy jowl. From Wordnik.com. [Maigret and the Headless Corpse]
The crowd thickened, heads bobbing, faces now cheek to jowl. From Wordnik.com. [Roanne's Dream] Reference
Number four, I don't remember having so much jowl resistance last time. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jun 15, 2004] Reference
What if we keep building like this, property line jowl in precarious places?. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Oct 25, 2007] Reference
I saw him stare at her, his jowl settling in his neck, his color thickening. From Wordnik.com. [The King Must Die]
On either side of the street cookstalls jostled cheek by jowl for available space. From Wordnik.com. [The Falcons of Montabard]
MIZRAHI: I was starting to think that maybe that's what I would do -- the jowl thing. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Nov 19, 2007] Reference
That's because we New Yorkers all live cheek by jowl in crowded high-rises, Sudhir explained. From Wordnik.com. [LETTER FROM AMERICA] Reference
The owner here, Dodie Vegas, says just about any other year it would be packed cheek to jowl. From Wordnik.com. [Spill-Soaked Town's Fourth Is No Celebration] Reference
He was a heavy, jowl-faced, graying man who was known for his firmness in his official capacity. From Wordnik.com. [Damned If You Don't] Reference
In front of me, which is the closest to the podium on the floor, people literally cheek to jowl. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jul 26, 2004] Reference
This was followed by the sound of the man absorbing a blow — the heel of the hand into the jowl?. From Wordnik.com. [The Hotel New Hampshire]
UNIDENTIFIED ACTOR: We're cheek to jowl with Colin Powell in the back of our big chauffeured Caddy. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript - Sunday Morning News: `The Capitol Steps' Turn Campaigns Into Comedy - January 14, 2001] Reference
Separate the heads at the jaw, leaving the tongue attached to the jowl, and taking care not to cut it. From Wordnik.com. [Dishes & Beverages of the Old South] Reference
I wish'd you very well when you were alive; but I could never abide a dead man, cheek by jowl with me. From Wordnik.com. [The Canadian Elocutionist] Reference
CROWLEY: Freeways look like parking lots, parking lots are a nightmare, restaurants are check to jowl. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Feb 27, 2006] Reference
In the main street I observed six grog-shops, side by side, actually shoulder to shoulder, cheek by jowl. From Wordnik.com. [Disturbed Ireland Being the Letters Written During the Winter of 1880-81.] Reference
Hear tell dey give dem a peck of meal en a little molasses en a hog jowl en dat had to last dem all de week. From Wordnik.com. [Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves South Carolina Narratives, Part 1] Reference
Madmen and all alike, without respect of persons, veritably rot to death, cheek by jowl, in a Moorish prison. From Wordnik.com. [In the Tail of the Peacock] Reference
Vermin are most common around the ears, inside the legs, and in the folds of the skin on the jowl sides and flanks. From Wordnik.com. [Pratt's Practical Pointers on the Care of Livestock and Poultry] Reference
I'm terrible at crowd estimates but I can tell you they are cheek to jowl here in this sort of tavernous arena here. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Dec 8, 2007] Reference
Tuesday about midday, and at once proceeded towards a farmhouse located right under the very jowl of an ugly-looking kopje. From Wordnik.com. [Campaign Pictures of the War in South Africa (1899-1900) Letters from the Front] Reference
We allus had hog-jowl and peas on New Years Day 'cause iffen you'd have dat on New Years Day you'd have good luck all de year. From Wordnik.com. [Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Oklahoma Narratives] Reference
The Master begged us to stay and offered us five pounds of meal and two pounds of pork jowl each week if we would stay and work. From Wordnik.com. [Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Indiana Narratives] Reference
As I had the little brown cap upon my head, I knew that none of the fairy people could see me, so I walked up cheek by jowl with. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, December 11, 1841] Reference
As he did so a huge man with red hair sprang to his feet; from one great hand the dice fell to the floor; his shaggy jowl drooped. From Wordnik.com. [Half A Chance] Reference
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