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Updated: May 3, 2025
They clean their teeth with the end of a stick, which they chew at one extremity, till they loosen the fibres, and with this improvised toothbrush and some wood ashes for paste, they make them look as white and clean as ivory. There is generally a large masonry well in the middle of the village, with a broad smooth pucca platform all round it.
As for fresh underwear and hose, they were talked of over soup like some new and rare dispensation of Providence. Fräulein alone had a toothbrush and powder, and they appeared rather conspicuously here and there as if they were modern ornaments of which the household was visibly proud.
In a state of good health these fine lines are stiff like toothbrush bristles; while in the case of poor health these lines droop, curl, and present a furlike appearance. It is sometimes filled with minute sparkling particles, like tiny vibratory motion.
They're Kentucky mountaineers, and as the father says, 'a fur piece from home'." It was through the eldest girl that the children became acquainted: the girl and her toothbrush. Rose-Ellen was brushing her teeth at the door, and Dick was saying, "I ain't going to.
When other means failed to procure this luxury, he would write to his friends for a toothbrush and sell it for the weed, which caused the toothbrushes to be withdrawn from all the prisoners. Then he would write for a pair of spectacles, pretending that his eyes were getting weak. These he sold, and the last were discovered passing into one of the cooks' hands in fair exchange for mutton chops.
My room is actually found to contain a towel and an old tooth-brush; the towel has evidently not been laundried for some time and a public toothbrush is hardly a joy-inspiring object to contemplate; nevertheless they are evidences that the proprietor of the caravanserai is possessed of vague, shadowy ideas of a Ferenghi's requirements.
With the grave manner that always impressed young girls, and with a somewhat serious face, she was busying herself with their frills and ribbons, when from the bathroom, where Amy was drawing on silk stockings, and Nina had her toothbrush in her mouth, she was electrified by a chance scrap of their conversation. "If I do mention it to Mother," said Nina, rather thickly, "she will only scold me!
For silver, rub first with powdered whiting moistened with a little alcohol or hot water. Let it dry on, and then polish with a dry chamois-skin. If there is any intricate work, use a small toothbrush. Whiting, silver-soap, cloths, chamois, and brushes should all be kept in a box together.
"No matter how many mistakes now, Sahib!" grinned the Sikh. "None but a crazy Moslem would travel in this sun with his head shaved. Better put a cloth inside the cap, thus, for greater safety." The only other thing Grim did to me was to throw away my toothbrush. "They're suspicious in these parts," he said. "They'd figure it was hog-bristles.
There had been a good deal of talk, but when the time came they did not go. One of them didn't go because he didn't have any toothbrush. "Senator Burrows. Did he give that as a reason? "Admiral Dewey. Yes; he said, 'I have no toothbrush."
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