gumboil

• “‘Toothache,’ growled Topsy, in reply, ‘not gumboil;’ the remedy suggested by Mrs Pulchop being for the latter of these ills.”

  Madame Midas

• “The crewman with the bat said, "Is this little gumboil telling the truth, mister?”

  The Martian Way

• “George, my dear old school-chum, with the V.C., and his wife tells me of it as casually as if it had been a gumboil!”

  Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, December 19, 1917

• “Listen to the doctor," Pearl commanded sternly, "or he'll raise a gumboil on ye.”

  Sowing Seeds in Danny

• “Listen to the doctor," Pearl commanded sternly, "or he 'll raise a gumboil on ye.”

  Sowing Seeds in Danny

• “They show teeth which in size and form are exactly the same as those of a thousand generations afterwards -- and suffering from gumboil too!”

  The Outline of Science, Vol. 1 (of 4) A Plain Story Simply Told

• “Toothache,' growled Topsy, in reply, 'not gumboil;' the remedy suggested by Mrs Pulchop being for the latter of these ills.”

  Madame Midas

• “Mr. Flannery's mouth next week, I will open another keg of hard words and trace this gumboil theory to a successful termination, if I have to use up the whole ceiling of the patient's mouth.”

  Remarks

• “This might only indicate that Mr. Flannery had kept his mouth open too much during the summer, and sunburned the roof of his mouth, were it not that I also discovered traces of gumboil microbes of the squamous variety.”

  Remarks

• “I wish you would ask Mr. Flannery's immediate relatives, if you can do so without arousing alarm in the breast of the patient, if there has ever been a marked predisposition on the part of his ancestors to tubercular gumboil.”

  Remarks

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