tooth-and-gum-disclosing

Updated: May 16, 2025

Of course I'll have to explain a little more fully." "'Splain what you please," said Moses. "My business is to gib you de bones ob de letter; yours bein' a scholar is to clove it wid flesh." "I'll do it, Moses, at once." "I should like," rejoined Moses, with a tooth-and-gum-disclosing smile, "to see your fadder when he gits dat letter!"

R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne - Blown to Bits: or, The Lonely Man of Rakata

Of course I'll have to explain a little more fully." "'Splain what you please," said Moses. "My business is to gib you de bones ob de letter; yours bein' a scholar is to clove it wid flesh." "I'll do it, Moses, at once." "I should like," rejoined Moses, with a tooth-and-gum-disclosing smile, "to see your fadder when he gits dat letter!"

R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne - Blown to Bits: The Lonely Man of Rakata, the Malay Archipelago