tooth-drawing

Once finished with the tooth-drawing, I had suggested that she and her friends stay for a bit, but they, like Sequoyah, had business elsewhere, and with many thanks and small gifts, had departed by mid-afternoon, smelling strongly of whisky, and leaving us to dispose of the mortal remains of the late Ephraim.

A Breath of Snow and Ashes Gabaldon, Diana 2005

A surgeon of some eminence now appeared, who did not decline tooth-drawing, though he certainly would have been offended with the appellation of tooth-drawer no less than his brethren, the members of that venerable body, would be with that of barber, since the late separation between those long-united companies, by which, if the surgeons have gained much, the barbers are supposed to have lost very little.

The Journal of a Voyage to Lisbon 2004

THOSE in Millsborough, having charge of the tooth-drawing -- el negocio dental, that was a cloak to cover great traffic in cocaine, opium and hashish.

Ambrotox and Limping Dick Oliver Fleming

A surgeon of some eminence now appeared, who did not decline tooth-drawing, though he certainly would have been offended with the appellation of tooth-drawer no less than his brethren, the members of that venerable body, would be with that of barber, since the late separation between those long-united companies, by which, if the surgeons have gained much, the barbers are supposed to have lost very little.

The Works of Henry Fielding, Volume Six: Miscellanies 1900

But I must candidly say I would far rather undergo a dozen operations, from tooth-drawing upwards, than suffer all the anxiety I have had lest his should not turn out well.

Selections from the Letters of Geraldine Endsor Jewsbury to Jane Welsh Carlyle 1892

By an automatic chain of thought Grace's mind reverted to the tooth-drawing scene described by her husband; and for the first time she wondered if that narrative were really true, Susan's jaws being so obviously sound and strong.

The Woodlanders Thomas Hardy 1884

A blood-letting, or a jaw-splitting tooth-drawing cost the sufferer eightpence extra.

Customs and Fashions in Old New England Alice Morse Earle 1881

Next the table-cover was drawn off, the hearthrug restored to its place; and, grinning now hugely, Bob went to a drawer, and got out the doctor's tooth-drawing instruments -- for the doctor belonged to the old school, and in distant times had not been above removing a decayed and aching molar from a patient's jaw.

The Bag of Diamonds George Manville Fenn 1870

That was the time of those grotesque studies in shipbuilding, tooth-drawing, and useful arts in which he acquired a sort of technical mastery; and it was then that he learned to think so highly of the Dutch as a practical people, worthy of imitation.

Lectures on Modern history John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton Acton 1868

An unskilled traveller is very likely to make a bad job of a first attempt at tooth-drawing.

The Art of Travel Shifts and Contrivances Available in Wild Countries Francis Galton 1866