Tooth's

That eye wanted to cross, to discredit Perkus Tooth's whole sober aura with a comic jape.

Excerpt: Chronic City by Jonathan Lethem 2009

With Tooth's turtle posture and the utter slackness of his being, his receding hairline and antique manner of dress trim - tapered suit, ferociously wrinkled silk with the shine worn off, moldering tennis shoesI could have taken him for elderly.

Excerpt: Chronic City by Jonathan Lethem 2009

Through his adventures, London explores hominid development, including advances in early housing, from a tree-bound "rude platform of twigs and branches and creeping things" to the more upscale caves; the relationship between language and higher consciousness ( "We were vaguely thinking thoughts for which there were no thought symbols"); and the first attempt to domesticate dogs, which ends tragically when Big Tooth's peckish pal makes a meal of his puppy.

Books: Jack London, Paleoanthropologist 2005

Tooth's ok: a little sore because the endodontist didn't sculpt the temporary filling as far down as the dentist did his last week, so I'm putting more pressure on this one because of its higher profile.

what the thunder said badger 2003

Boys would not be introduced until they discovered their names ... as Green Stone found malachite in a cave, or as his father's tales of the Black Pit shaped Saber Tooth's dreams.

The Burning City Niven, Larry 2000

Late that night Whandall dismissed the others and went to Saber Tooth's travel nest.

The Burning City Niven, Larry 2000

"Heap good squaw!" was Buck Tooth's opinion, and that seemed to sum it all up.

The Boy Ranchers Among the Indians or, Trailing the Yaquis Willard F. Baker

Billee, Yellin 'Kid, with Buck Tooth's help, aided the boys in such minor duties as were necessary to perform about the camp.

The Boy Ranchers in Camp or The Water Fight at Diamond X Willard F. Baker

"Might 'a' been one of Buck Tooth's Indian friends making a call, but --"

The Boy Ranchers on the Trail Willard F. Baker

And it was Buck Tooth's discovery as the boy ranchers learned soon.

The Boy Ranchers Among the Indians or, Trailing the Yaquis Willard F. Baker