Thus whether she received the Reverend Saunders McNitre, the Scotch divine; or the Reverend Luke Waters, the mild Wesleyan; or the Reverend Giles
Jowls, the illuminated Cobbler, who dubbed himself Reverend as Napoleon crowned himself Emperor--the household, children, tenantry of my Lady Southdown were expected to go down on their knees with her Ladyship, and say Amen to the prayers of either Doctor.
Toward the shaven monk who trudged along with his cowl tilted back and the sweat washing down his fat
jowls, the coal-burner was deeply reverent; to the gentleman he was abject; with the small farmer and the free mechanic he was cordial and gossipy; and when a slave passed by with a counte- nance respectfully lowered, this chap's nose was in the air -- he couldn't even see him.
Like well-schooled terriers, they paced the corridors with us, but I could not help but note the lathering
jowls, nor the hungry expressions with which they eyed Tars Tarkas and myself.
'I'm a jolly old tender-hearted lamb, I am,' cried Mr
Jowl, 'to be sitting here at my time of life giving advice when I know it won't be taken, and that I shall get nothing but abuse for my pains.
For Dag Daughtry had a way with him, as Michael was quickly to learn, when the man's hand reached out and clutched him, half by the
jowl, half by the slack of the neck under the ear.
The half-open hand closed in a firm grip that gathered in the slack of the skin of one side of Jerry's head and
jowl. Then the hand began to shake him back and forth with such good will that he was compelled to balance back and forth on all his four feet.
So the unwilling prelate was dragged away, cheek by
jowl, with the half-cooked venison upon the back of his own horse; and Robin and his band took charge of the whole company and led them through the forest glades till they came to an open space near Barnesdale.
Even Ruth was hurt, for she had some regard for appearances, and her lover, cheek by
jowl with Maria, at the head of that army of Portuguese ragamuffins, was not a pretty sight.
The stream is shrunk--the pool is dry, And we be comrades, thou and I; With fevered
jowl and dusty flank Each jostling each along the bank; And by one drouthy fear made still, Forgoing thought of quest or kill.
She had a poll of very dirty and untidy red hair; her eyes were set close together; she had the
jowl of the traditional prize-fighter.
Karay was a shaggy old dog with a hanging
jowl, famous for having tackled a big wolf unaided.
To its sensitive nostrils came the subtle unseen spoor of many a tender four-footed creature, bringing the slaver of hunger to the cruel, drooping
jowl.