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Underlip

noun
1.
The lower lip.






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"Underlip" Quotes from Famous Books



... at a jaunty angle. He wore his helmet at a nifty tilt, with the chin strap riding between his underlip and his dimpled, upheld chin. He carried his shoulders back, and his chest out. The reins hung gracefully in his left hand, and he had assumed a rather moving-picture pose of the right fist on his right ...
— "And they thought we wouldn't fight" • Floyd Gibbons

... habitual stride up and down the room. His brow was dark, and he gnawed his underlip savagely. That she should plead for the life of the man who had brought all this upon her was to him inexplicable. Was he then to be baulked of ...
— Marguerite De Roberval - A Romance of the Days of Jacques Cartier • T. G. Marquis

... horse's heels floated back and settled like the gentle dew from heaven upon the car and its occupants. Druro was on the point of slackening speed, but Mrs. Hading's pencilled brows met in a line above her eyes, and one of her little white teeth showed in her underlip. ...
— Blue Aloes - Stories of South Africa • Cynthia Stockley

... the good woman, with an alarmed face. She lifted her shoulders and extended what Narcisse would have called the han' of rep-u-diation; then turned away her face, lifted up her underlip with disrelish, and asked the surrounding atmosphere,—"What I got to do wid Union? Nuttin' do wid Union—nuttin' do wid Confederacie!" She moved away, addressing the garden and the house by turns. "Ah! no!" She went in by the front door, talking Creole French, ...
— Dr. Sevier • George W. Cable



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