• It isn't clear what role these receptors play in the body, but scientists suggest they might have a protective function, as they do in the mouth.

    WSJ: People Who Taste Too Much

  • In 1952, Mr. Thielemans began a seven-year tenure with pianist and fellow European George Shearing, which helped establish the Belgian as Adler's successor as the most famous "mouth organist" in the world.

    WSJ: Playing Hand to Mouth | By Will Friedwald

  • "This is the very best Christmas ever, " said Lewis, biting off as much of the turkey as he could fit in his mouth, and quickly swallowing it, before the yelling woman could take the rest of it away.

    WSJ: A Christmas Tale of Hope and Renewal. For Dogs.

  • Lascaux II is an exact copy, painstakingly re-created using the same painting techniques as in the originals: pigments mixed in the mouth and blown onto the walls through marrow bones.

    FORBES: How foie gras was my valley

  • It seems the really good places do not need to advertise, as word-of-mouth reviews bring in the crowds.

    BBC: Hunting for hummus in Israel

  • Which means that he was just as surprised as everyone else in the room as he heard the presentation come out of his mouth.

    FORBES: 3 Reasons Why Your Presentation Is A Dud

  • The findings, reported in papers published by Nature and the Public Library of Science, were based on samples from 242 healthy volunteers in the U.S., from such sites as the mouth, nose, skin, intestine and vagina.

    WSJ: Gene Map of Body's Microbes Is New Health Tool

  • This has already been inscribed in White House lore as a magnificent victory, snatched in the spring of this year from the mouth of defeat by a combination of presidential fortitude and congressional ingenuity (or stubbornness and rule-bending, as Republicans see it).

    ECONOMIST: Lexington

  • The development has worried farming unions and politicians in Wales, as the scale of the foot-and-mouth crisis deepens.

    BBC: News Online

  • The Moroccan emulated the achievement of Finn Paavo Nurmi in 1924 as he cruised to victory in the 5, 000 in one of the most mouth-watering head-to-heads of the Athens Games.

    CNN: El Guerrouj secures double triumph

  • The primitive fish mouth straining for water and finding it as my son releases it in the shallows.

    NEWYORKER: The Other Place

  • Experts say it was customary to place a coin in the mouth of an inhumation as a fare for the ferryman Charon for safe passage across the River Styx in the afterlife.

    BBC: Archaeological dig uncovers Roman activity near Stroud

  • "For a cubist image, for example, they would need to pick out the features of the photo, such as the eyes, nose and mouth in an image of a face, " he said.

    CNN: Software brings photos to life

  • Since the launch of iPhone 4, Android has emerged as a formidable competitor in terms of sales and word of mouth, particularly in the tech community.

    FORBES: Will iPhone 5 Have a Curved Glass Screen?

  • As the book title Please Don't Eat the Daisies suggests, actually putting whole blossoms in your mouth seems a little strange.

    NPR: Robb Walsh: 'Are You Really Going to Eat That?'

  • Flavour is a mixture of sensory information - taste, smell and the tactile sensation that is known as "mouthfeel" (so you might experience water as feeling "light" or "heavy" in the mouth).

    BBC: Is there really a north-south water taste divide?

  • Occasionally he grimaces, as if he were biting down on the golden flames in his mouth.

    NEWYORKER: Baptizing the Gun

  • Despite proving successful in controlling the diseases of livestock, such as foot and mouth, culling wild animals is controversial because of the lack of evidence that it works.

    BBC: Cull 'cannot save' Tasmanian devil

  • Head and neck cancers, which occur in the mouth and throat, affect three times as many men as women, according to the American Cancer Society.

    WSJ: Music Ability Helps Reading

  • W. Bush went so far as to draw attention to the impending falsehood emanating from his mouth in 1988.

    CNN: Can politicians be trusted?

  • His breath turned immediately to vapor outside his mouth, and he felt as if the air in his lungs were lost forever.

    NEWYORKER: The Maserati Years

  • As soon as he held it in his hand, he put the instrument's mouth to his lips, like a thirsty person grabbing at a bottle of water and pressing it to his mouth.

    NPR: 'A Tale of Music': From 'Literature from the Axis of Evil'

  • Police seal off a farm in County Louth as the Irish Republic maintains a full foot-and-mouth alert.

    BBC: Foot-and-mouth disease timeline

  • As well as foot-and-mouth, the institute also focuses on diseases in cattle, sheep, horses and pigs, including lumpy skin disease, rinderpest, African swine fever, swine vesicular disease and equine encephalosis.

    BBC: NEWS | UK | Pirbright: Labs at centre of outbreak

  • Britain's economic growth in the first quarter was stronger than originally reported, as the foot-and-mouth crisis failed to make an impact while the service sector continued to perform robustly.

    BBC: UK growth revised upwards

  • The school photographer caught the moment: there I am in the 1987 yearbook laughing with my mouth wide open, my eyes as big as saucers, and my hands behind me, having just pushed my skirt back down.

    CNN: Robin Meade talks anxiety and her road to self-confidence

  • And Wigan boss Paul Jewell's heart will have been in his mouth as Angel's shot bounced just in front of Filan and the keeper was fortunate to see it hit his hands and loop just over the bar.

    BBC: SPORT | Football | Premiership | Wigan 3-2 Aston Villa

  • And even though they have some good prospects coming, just the entire tenor, it leaves a bad taste in your mouth, as anyone who has tried to eat an aggressive game fish can tell you.

    NPR: How Two Baseball Teams Got Their Dubious Records

  • The book's success is attributed to bloggers and the sharing of book reviews and recommendations on social media, as well as old-fashioned word of mouth advertising in physical coffee shops, and most probably at the school gates.

    CNN: Erotic ebook surges up best seller list

  • The limner watched as Tuttle stood there, one foot advanced, as in his portrait, his mouth opening and closing in a manner that did not suggest dignity.

    NEWYORKER: The Limner

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