See Also: CHIN; CHEEK; MOUTH, OPEN/SHUT

1. Bare his teeth like a yawning tiger —Miles Gibson
2. Cruel red mouth like a venomous flower —Algernon Charles Swinburne
3. He had his mouth all prissed up when he talked, like a man acting in a play —Iris Murdoch
4. Her mouth glistened like a wound —Jerry Bumpus
5. Her mouth hung loose like a bright ribbon —R. V. Cassill
6. Her mouth is wide and red as strawberry pie —Rex Reed

   The mouth thus described belongs to actress Carol Channing.

7. Her mouth was as little suited for smiling as a frying-pan for musical purposes —Anatole France

   See Also: FACIAL EXPRESSION, SERIOUS

8. Her peevish mouth looked like a slit cut by a knife —Stefan Zweig
9. His mouth ran like a thin dark crease between them [chin and nose] —Jonathan Valin
10. His mouth turned down like he could see death —Richard Ford
11. His open mouth was like a dark hole in his beard —Ross Macdonald
12. A loose mouth … slack with usage, like rubber bands —William Faulkner
13. The mouth and ear are like a bow and a fiddle; when the ear is shut, the mouth is mute —Hayyim Nahman Bialik
14. Mouth as sweet as a ripe fig —Edith Wharton
15. Mouth broad as an airstrip —Loren D. Estleman
16. Mouth … framed in iron-gray fluffy hair, that looked like a chin-strap of cotton wool sprinkled with coal-dust —Joseph Conrad
17. Mouth … clamped like a spring and right as the mouth of a witch —Borden Deal
18. (A big, pink) mouth, curled down at one corner as if he habitually smoked a pipe —Lael Tucker Wertenbaker
19. A mouth drawn in like a miser’s purse —Emile Zola
20. Mouth … flabby like a toad’s —Christopher Isherwood
21. Mouth … like a large wet keyhole —Roald Dahl
22. Mouth like a fireplace —Ogden Nash
23. Mouth … like a fold of skin over a skull, without the life —Paul Horgan
24. A mouth like an air-raid trench —Jane Wagner
25. Mouth like an arrowhead wound —Jean Cocteau about Colette
26. Mouth … like a scarlet wound —W. Somerset Maugham
27. Mouth like a seam —Irvin S. Cobb
28. Mouth like a slit in the sidewalk —Anon
29. Mouth like the bottom of a parrot cage —David Niven
30. A mouth like the inside of a jelly doughnut —Peter De Vries
31. Mouth open like a funnel’s —Eudora Welty
32. Mouth pinched inward like a fist —Joyce Carol Oates
33. Mouth pursed up tight like a mushroom —Roald Dahl
34. Mouth … red and slightly swollen, as if somebody had been chewing on it —Ross Macdonald
35. Mouth … so wide-centred and deep-cornered, so cool and so warm, so lusciously crimson, that flaring out of the pallor of her face, it was like a blood-hot signal to the senses —Inez Haynes Irwin
36. Mouths like donuts —F. D. Reeve
37. Mouths like wet velvet —Angela Carter
38. Mouth … so thin that the lips seemed to hook together, like the catch of a child’s purse —Frank Tuohy
39. Mouths pink as watermelon —May Sarton
40. A mouth that stretches from ear to ear when he laughs, like a mouth on a cat piggy bank —Francois Maspero
41. Mouth that was like a salmon’s mouth —Roald Dahl
42. Mouth thin and straight, like a cut in his face —Honore de Balzac
43. Mouth tight as a corset string on the preacher’s wife —Harold Adams
44. Mouth tugged down on one side like a dead man’s —John Updike
45. Mouth twisted like an epileptic’s —Isaac Bashevis Singer
46. The old mouth closed like a zip —Julia O’Faolain
47. A quibbling mouth that would have snapped verbal errors like a lizard catching flies —Edith Wharton
48. A wide and expressionless mouth like the juncture of a casserole dish with its lid —Thomas McGuane