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He stared entranced at the bar's TV set as Laughton .dramatized his readings by balletlike turnings of his heavy body, ducking his dewlapped chin into his collar, shooting sly glances from his spaniel-sad eyes.

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Contemptuously he advised dewlapped Inspector Porfiry how to catch a criminal.

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He was older than most newshawks, grey-haired, baldish, dewlapped.

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Plump, dewlapped Judge Caverly beetled through his spectacles in amazement at the couple, said something secret.

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The tiger-god, The owl, the dewlapped bull, the running pard, The camel, and the lizard of the slime, The ram with quivering fleece and fluted horn, The crested eagle and the doming bat Were sacred.

From Georgian Poetry 1913-15 by Marsh, Edward Howard, Sir