"Mastication" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... his slate. Diamonds and gold watches were taken and many thousands of dollars in bank bills and coin came into his hands. He choked the market with bargains. The buyers began to back off. They were like hungry dogs laboring with a difficult problem of mastication. Mr. Davis closed ...
— A Man for the Ages - A Story of the Builders of Democracy • Irving Bacheller
... moment the sound of jaws in the act of mastication, which proceeded from beneath the furnace, ...
— Notre-Dame de Paris - The Hunchback of Notre Dame • Victor Hugo
... his fork as it were transfixed. The effort of devising contradiction to the chief supporters of his own rebellion was for the moment too much for him. He resumed mastication. ...
— Forsyte Saga • John Galsworthy
... Pancha, for just then a piece of hawser-laid rope—rather dry, perhaps, for mastication—was placed across your crying mouth that you might bite upon, if you would only stop ...
— Captain Brand of the "Centipede" • H. A. (Henry Augustus) Wise
... indiscriminately to the ground. Sounder asserted his rights and preferred large portions at a time. Jude begged with great solemn eyes but was no slouch at eating for all her gentleness. Ranger, because of imperfectly developed teeth rendering mastication difficult, had to have his share cut into very small pieces. As for Moze—well, great dogs have their faults as do great men—he never got enough meat; he would fight even poor crippled Jude, and steal even from the pups; when he had gotten all Jim would ...
— Tales of lonely trails • Zane Grey
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