cavern-jawed

Updated: March 20, 2026

The water, in the distance, had been full of eager spectators of the fight, and now it boiled as they rushed in upon the disabled prey. Ravenous, cavern-jawed, fishlike beasts, half-porpoise, half-alligator, swarmed upon the victim, tearing at it and at each other.

Sir Charles George Douglas Roberts - In the Morning of Time