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The crown is the grinding surface; the body the part projecting from the jaw is the seat of sensation and nutrition; the root is that portion of the tooth which is inserted in the alveolus. The ivory forms the greater portion of the body and root, while the enamel covers the exposed surface. The small white cords communicating with the teeth are the nerves.
How much sharper than a serpent's tooth is a prophecy of evil unfulfilled! It's not that he considers I've gone to work, incorrigible vagabond that I am; it's the fact that my intolerable idling has produced money which sets his teeth on edge money, the golden calf of Uncle Peter's narrow idolatrous soul." Ruth had no liking for his moments of acid mockery.
The first was our Indian uncle coming down to the country to see us. The second was Denny's tooth. The third was only our wanting to go hunting; but if you count it in it makes the thing about the trefoil come right. And all these causes were harmless. It is a flattering thing to say, and it was not Oswald who said it, but Dora.
And then, coming back to the cave one day with a nestful of young-hatched pheasants, I found Lop-Ear had killed the puppy and was just beginning to eat him. I sprang for Lop-Ear, the cave was small, and we went at it tooth and nail. And thus, in a fight, ended one of the earliest attempts to domesticate the dog. We pulled hair out in handfuls, and scratched and bit and gouged.
The next day we traded out of the tooth business and rode south down the old Navajo trail. We picked a good campin' spot a little "flat" in a bend of the river where the grazin' was good and we turned the ponies out. We didn't have to wait long.
The 'septum' of the nose is pierced, and the crescent-shaped tooth, of the dugong is worn in it on state occasions; large holes are also made in the ears, and a piece of wood as large as a bottle cork, and whitened with pipe clay, is inserted in them. A practise of cutting the hair off very close is followed by both sexes, seemingly once a year, and wigs are made of the hair.
Their poisonous nature has been questioned; but the presence of a strong perforated tooth and of a venomous gland sufficiently attest their dangerous powers, even if these had not been demonstrated by the effects of their bite.
"I've a sore tooth," she answered, glad to get any excuse, and lying with promptitude. "Well, hap the blankets owre your head," the mother advised, "and it'll soon be better. Dinna' greet, like a woman."
He whipped up the spirited horse and they dashed away. Presently the man asked, with a grin: "Did it hurt much, Miss Patsy?" "Did what hurt, James?" "The tooth pullin', Miss Patsy." "The tooth wasn't pulled," answered the girl, sweetly. "It didn't need it, James. The only thing that was pulled was the Honorable Erastus's leg."
Her journey to town would not take long, she said; 'twas not like going to Bergen; but she wasn't going to stay on here losing one tooth after another, till she'd a mouth like a calf. "What'll it cost?" said Axel. "How do I know?" said she. "But, anyway, it won't cost you anything. I'll earn the money myself."
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