1 So he thought he would hold the tooth in reserve for the present, and seek further.
2 The old lady made one end of the silk thread fast to Tom's tooth with a loop and tied the other to the bedpost.
3 The tooth hung dangling by the bedpost, now.
4 I asked her to let me think a minute; and she set there, very impatient and excited and handsome, but looking kind of happy and eased-up, like a person that's had a tooth pulled out.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark TwainContext Highlight In CHAPTER XXVIII. 5 It was a continual scratching, as if made by a huge claw, a powerful tooth, or some iron instrument attacking the stones.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In Chapter 15. Number 34 and Number 27. 6 He had nothing more to do now, but with the iron tooth of the pickaxe to draw the stones towards him one by one.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In Chapter 24. The Secret Cave. 7 On that spot, in very truth, there was, and there had long been, the gnawing and poisonous tooth of bodily pain.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel HawthorneContext Highlight In XII. THE MINISTER'S VIGIL 8 It was a last year's nut, and already gnawed by his sharp tooth.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel HawthorneContext Highlight In XVIII. A FLOOD OF SUNSHINE 9 But I've got a motive, as my fellow-partner used to say; and I go at it tooth and nail.
10 I heard that he went to a dentist's in London on the Monday morning, and had a tooth out.
11 He was impatiently looking forward to the news that she was married, or just going to be married, hoping that such news would, like having a tooth out, completely cure him.
12 He experienced the sensations of a man who has had a tooth out after suffering long from toothache.
13 She had come so hurriedly that she had in her small carpetbag only a nightgown and a tooth brush, not even a change of underwear.
14 The figure that now stood by its bows was tall and swart, with one white tooth evilly protruding from its steel-like lips.
Moby Dick By Herman MelvilleContext Highlight In CHAPTER 48. The First Lowering. 15 For, with but a bit of broken sea-shell or a shark's tooth, that miraculous intricacy of wooden net-work has been achieved; and it has cost steady years of steady application.
Moby Dick By Herman MelvilleContext Highlight In CHAPTER 57. Of Whales in Paint; in Teeth; in Wood; in She...