In that tangled sort of fashion peculiar to dreams your sympathy seems to go out first to the fox terrier and then to the woodchuck as they circle about nimbly, leaping from your tonsils to your larynx and then up over the rafters in the roof of your mouth and down again and pattering over the sub-maxillary from side to side.
"Cobb's Anatomy"
Irvin S. Cobb
Ferrall, gesticulating vigorously, resumed his preprandial dog story to Captain Voucher; Belwether buttonholed Alderdene and bored him with an interminably facetious tale until that nobleman, threatened with maxillary dislocation, fairly wrenched himself loose and came over to Siward, squinting furiously.
"The Fighting Chance"
Robert W. Chambers
Some species have a complete quadratojugal-maxillary arch; others do not.
"A Review of the Middle American Tree Frogs of the Genus Ptychohyla"
William E. Duellman