Gape-mouthed

"You may be wise in your study in the morning,” (says brow-beating Johnson, to his gape-mouthed admirer Boswell,) “ and gay in company at a tavern in the evening.”

This argument also does Sweden, her king, and Chancellor Oxenstierna a regrettable historical injustice, for it trivializes the gape-mouthed surprise with which most European statesmen greeted the initial successes of the Swedish invaders in 1631.

The brain, we are to understand, is sufficiently complex to supoprt higher functions because it is composed of some 10,000,000,000 neurons; and, as if this were not sufficient to leave one gape-mouthed with uncritical awe, it is pointed out that each of these components connects with numerous other components, so that the possible number of sub-units or combinations exceeds the number of atoms in the universe.

Finally there were the fugitive images that imprinted themselves on his fizzling, fading brain as his gape-mouthed head spun in the air: a night sky flocked with gentle clouds; the saffron glow of the lamps along the riverbank; the door to the synagogue garret, flapping open in the breeze.

So in the spring my room and that portion of the veranda set aside for the purpose always had at least half a dozen cages and boxes containing gape-mouthed baby birds or birds that I had managed to rescue from the sportsmen and which were recuperating with makeshift splints on wings or legs.

And on the second OOOOOOO, you picture just a naked glowing green skull that hangs there vibrating gape-mouthed in a prison cell.

A corpse swirled past me, gape-mouthed, fish-white, dull eyed.

At the best of times it had been too tight, and now the gape-mouthed face resembled a blue tomato.

A gape-mouthed wicker trunk served as a hive.

Now the grime-filmed upper-level windows of their facades peered sadly across at each other over gape-mouthed loading bay entrances whose shutters were all jammed somewhere uncommitted between open and closed.

The alien gently manoeuvred the ship out of the gape-mouthed bay.

As much as we check in, we are checking out of our own lives and becoming voyeuristic, peering gape-mouthed into the sordid details of other people's lives in order to feel connected or entertained.

I paused at the entrance and stared, gape-mouthed.

He tosses two twenties on the table and with a gentle nudge turns me away from Steve, who sits there, impotent, staring gape-mouthed at the cash.