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When she turned her eyes to him, he was amazed by the quiet, calm look that was in them. Her lips trembled. His soul expressed itself in a wordless cry that was drowned in another crash of timber as a jutting snag of the Tooth crumpled up the little cabin as if it had been pasteboard. He felt overwhelming him the surge of a thing mightier than the menace of the Chute. He could not lose!
Their darts were without iron; but some had a fish's tooth at the end. In concluding his description, he says, "they ought to make faithful servants, and of good understanding, for I see that very quickly they repeat all that is said to them, and I believe they would easily be converted to Christianity, for it appeared to me that they had no creed."
He seated himself in the chair. Painless examined his jaw carefully. He started back, both hands spread in expostulation. "My dear friend!" he cried, "you can save that tooth! It would be a crime to pull that tooth! Come to my office at ten to-morrow morning and I will see what can be done."
In Thuringia, on the extraction of a tooth, the person must eat three daisies to be henceforth free from toothache. In Cornwall bramble leaves are made use of in cases of scalds and inflammatory diseases. Nine leaves are moistened with spring-water, and "these are applied to the burned or diseased parts." While this is being done, for every bramble leaf the following charm is repeated three times:
Everywhere lay those dust-heaps, with here or there a tooth, a ring, a bit of jewelry showing everywhere he saw them, all the way down the stairs, in every room and office he peered into, and in the time-ravished confusion of the arcade. But this was scarcely the time for reflections of any sort.
Pretty Pierre bent over and said slowly: "If you stay here, Grah, the Indian get your scalp; if you go, the snow is deep and the frost is like a badger's tooth, and you can't be carried." "Oh, Oh! my mother dead poor Annie by God, Grah want pipe poor Grah sleep in snow-bubble, bubble Oh, Oh! the long wind, fly away."
Others merely grinned, but in their grins lay something more insulting than words. "To them I am a poor thing," he admitted; but as he lifted his eyes to the mighty semicircular wall of the Bear Tooth Range, over which the daily storm was playing, he forgot his small worries. What gorgeous pageantry! What life-giving air!
Torturing her will be quite sufficient; but if you are killed in this pursuit, I want one thing, and that is to fight with her; I will kill her with my own hands, and the others can do what they like with her if she kills me." "We will outrage her! We will burn her! We will tear her to pieces! Piedelot shall be avenged! "An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth!"
Belford entered, panama hat with two ribbons in hand. "Good afternoon, Mr. Franklin. I thought I might find you here.". "Yes, I'm at leisure. What can I do for you? Smoke?" "No; I can't to-day. The fact is, I've a bad tooth, and smoking troubles it." "Indeed? Let me see it. I'm a bit of a dentist." "Are you? That's fortunate, for it aches sadly, and our nearest dentist is five miles away."
"There is a method in man's wickedness, It grows up by degrees." "How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is To have a thankless child!" After the wedding, there were some weeks of that peaceful monotony which is the happiest vehicle for daily life, weeks so uniform that Charlotte remembered their events as little as she did their particular weather.
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