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  • Another of his successful experimental vessels was a tooth-powder can filled with nitrate movie-reel film that sent streams of the highly flammable celluloid slithering all over his lawn, igniting patches of turf.

    Rocket scientist Robert C. Truax, who built ship for Evel Knieval, dies at 93 T. Rees Shapiro 2010

  • Another of his successful experimental vessels was a tooth-powder can filled with nitrate movie-reel film that sent streams of the highly flammable celluloid slithering all over his lawn, igniting patches of turf.

    Rocket scientist Robert C. Truax, who built ship for Evel Knieval, dies at 93 T. Rees Shapiro 2010

  • She procured her tooth-powder and brush from the valise, and completed the process of cleaning at least the upper portion of her body.

    red dust Ryn Cricket 2010

  • I saw a short while back that some of you could scarcely restrain your laughter, when our orator treated these views of mine on the cleansing of the teeth as a matter for savage denunciation, and condemned my administration of a tooth-powder with fiercer indignation than has ever been shown in condemning the administration of a poison.

    The Defense Apuleius 2008

  • I saw a short while back that some of you could scarcely restrain your laughter, when our orator treated these views of mine on the cleansing of the teeth as a matter for savage denunciation, and condemned my administration of a tooth-powder with fiercer indignation than has ever been shown in condemning the administration of a poison.

    The Defense Apuleius 2008

  • His blond hair (in need of a trim) was sleeked back over his head, and had not known a hat since it was last combed; his cheeks were freshly shaved, albeit by his own hand and with an inadequate looking-glass, or perhaps simply inadequate light; his nails were clean and well trimmed; his teeth had regular acquaintance with a brush and tooth-powder.

    The Beekeeper's Apprentice King, Laurie R. 2006

  • He walked into the bath-room and shook tooth-powder onto his brush, but even with the noise of the running tap and the brush, he could hear the words spilling out of the next room.

    Locked Rooms King, Laurie R. 2005

  • He walked into the bath-room and shook tooth-powder onto his brush, but even with the noise of the running tap and the brush, he could hear the words spilling out of the next room.

    Locked Rooms King, Laurie R. 2005

  • An admirable recipe for a tooth-powder — Management of the teeth — Use of floss silk

    The Art of Living in Australia 2004

  • A tooth-powder or dentifrice of some kind will also be required.

    The Art of Living in Australia 2004

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