To do this is called maw-pak, and hence the game gets its name, maw-pak bae-ang. From Wordnik.com. [Through Central Borneo; an Account of Two Years' Travel in the Land of Head-Hunters Between the Years 1913 and 1917] Reference
His maw was the only one heard him walk the floor nights, and after he found, out she could hear him he walked in his socks. From Wordnik.com. [In the Arena Stories of Political Life] Reference
Ah! that one has got hold of a tiny shrimp, and is tucking it into his hungry maw, which is just in the middle of its flower-like body. From Wordnik.com. [Ernest Bracebridge School Days] Reference
My, but your maw is a woman to be proud of! "she said, hugging mother and patting her on the back. From Wordnik.com. [Laddie; a true blue story] Reference
You've got all of paw's relig'un an 'maw's brains, an' that's 'nuff said. ". From Wordnik.com. [The Bishop of Cottontown A Story of the Southern Cotton Mills] Reference
Her pap-pap had to give her maw-maw the Heimlich. From Wordnik.com. [Little Max] Reference
Nothing was too small or great for his rapacious maw. From Wordnik.com. [Saronia A Romance of Ancient Ephesus] Reference
Now its giant front door gapes like the maw of a cave. From Wordnik.com. [Our Man In Havana] Reference
Mona lay on the couch, maw gaped, decomposing. From Wordnik.com. [An Old Sweet Song] Reference
He opened his maw and I readied a pen to catch his last words. From Wordnik.com. [There's Something Wrong with Sven] Reference
Wilson's report seems to have vanished into the bureaucratic maw. From Wordnik.com. [Secrets And Leaks] Reference
Uncle's maw, and followed Carl from the chambers into the street. From Wordnik.com. [Cruel Barbara Allen From Coals Of Fire And Other Stories, Volume II. (of III.)] Reference
It had been engulfed and disappeared in the Goodwins 'capacious maw. From Wordnik.com. [Heroes of the Goodwin Sands] Reference
Ruth, amazed, saw her white fingers fumble inside the dog's open maw. From Wordnik.com. [Ruth Fielding at the War Front or, The Hunt for the Lost Soldier] Reference
Coming at you head on, the MP3 looks like the maw of some sci-fi alien. From Wordnik.com. [Bytes: Wow, Cool Trike, Dude] Reference
For a while, Mandela seemed firmly in the maw of the American celebrity machine. From Wordnik.com. [Mandela] Reference
One year my mee maw said tornaddos followed her all over the county no matter where. From Wordnik.com. [Art 108 Exam] Reference
Another writer writes a serious paw, a mistake of cat, a dripping maw, a dune of replacement. From Wordnik.com. [criture de la chatte] Reference
But once these kids became outpatients, they were thrown into the maw of the Pentagon bureaucracy. From Wordnik.com. [A War Within] Reference
He had visualized his dead body enclosed in a rocket flying off into the illimitable maw of space. From Wordnik.com. [The Jameson Satellite] Reference
Newspapers, cartons, wooden boxes -- everything we could find went into the voracious maw of the stove. From Wordnik.com. [Land of the Burnt Thigh] Reference
"Ya-as," drawled his son but in a very low tone, "maw says I'm growin 'more'n more like you, every day.". From Wordnik.com. [How Janice Day Won] Reference
"I reckon ye better let him go, maw," Doss Provine chattered from the bed's edge where he still crouched. From Wordnik.com. [Judith of the Cumberlands] Reference
With the relish of a gormandizer it had taken more of its peculiar food than even its prodigious maw could assimilate. From Wordnik.com. [Omega, the Man] Reference
The last thing Putin wants to see is another chunk of the old U.S.S.R. disappear down the maw of the ever encroaching West. From Wordnik.com. [PUTIN'S PRATFALL] Reference
The last thing Putin wants to see is another chunk of the old U.S.S.R. disappear into the maw of the ever-encroaching West. From Wordnik.com. [PUTIN TRIPS UP] Reference
Nothing was more greatly in demand than feeding the insatiable maw of the Telly fan, nothing, ultimately, became more profitable. From Wordnik.com. [Mercenary] Reference
This morning we caught a shark, and, singular to tell you, on cutting him up we found those papers (which you see drying) in his maw. From Wordnik.com. [A Sailor of King George] Reference
Some very beneficial legislation has had to be stuffed down the national maw over the decades, against great squalling and resistance. From Wordnik.com. [Prescription Politics] Reference
They mostly condemned the war, and we do them a disservice to perpetuate the myths that will get another generation sent into the maw. From Wordnik.com. [Rick Ayers: The Curse of Vietnam Now Haunting Afghan Killing Fields] Reference
It was overgrown and long out of use, but I could identify with the rust-coated windmill and the algae-limned teeth of the tiger's maw. From Wordnik.com. [Miniature Golf] Reference
When she looked in the mirror she could almost perceived the vague outline of its body and the gaping maw that laughed at her misfortunes. From Wordnik.com. [Phantasmagoria] Reference
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