mighty-mawed

Updated: May 5, 2025

In his vocabulary was no word for "crocodile"; yet in his thought, as potent as any utterable word, was an image of dreadful import an image of a log awash that was not a log and that was alive, that could swim upon the surface, under the surface, and haul out across the dry land, that was huge-toothed, mighty-mawed, and certain death to a swimming dog.

Jack London - Jerry of the Islands