I had lain, therefore, all that time, cheek by jowl with Blackbeard himself, with only a thin shell of tinder wood to keep him from me, and now had thrust my hand into his coffin and plucked away his beard.
All sorts of people lived cheek by jowl in the old city.
Having no safe, private sanitation facilities in areas where people are living tooth-to-jowl means going the whole day without relieving oneself and then risking exposure at night. - Millenium Project, ''Interim Report of Task Force 7 on Water and Sanitation, 2004-02-01.