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  • To know that he is always keeping a secret from her, that he has under all circumstances to conceal and hold fast a tender double tooth, which her sharpness is ever ready to twist out of his head, gives Mr. Snagsby, in her dentistical presence, much of the air of a dog who has a reservation from his master and will look anywhere rather than meet his eye.

    Bleak House 2007

  • Some of them have little boxes of dentistical-looking implements, specially intended for the skrimshandering business.

    Moby Dick; or the Whale 2002

  • Some of them have little boxes of dentistical-looking implements, specially intended for the skrimshandering business.

    Moby Dick: or, the White Whale Herman Melville 1855

  • Some of them have little boxes of dentistical-looking implements, specially intended for the skrimshandering business.

    Moby Dick, or, the whale Herman Melville 1855

  • To know that he is always keeping a secret from her, that he has under all circumstances to conceal and hold fast a tender double tooth, which her sharpness is ever ready to twist out of his head, gives Mr. Snagsby, in her dentistical presence, much of the air of a dog who has a reservation from his master and will look anywhere rather than meet his eye.

    Bleak House Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 1853

  • Some of them have little boxes of dentistical-looking implements, specially intended for the skrimshandering business.

    Moby-Dick, or, The Whale 1851

  • To know that he is always keeping a secret from her, that he has under all circumstances to conceal and hold fast a tender double tooth, which her sharpness is ever ready to twist out of his head, gives Mr. Snagsby, in her dentistical presence, much of the air of

    Bleak House Charles Dickens 1841

  • And yet even the crocodile likes to have his teeth cleaned; insects get into them, and, horrible reptile though he be, he opens his jaws inoffensively to a faithful dentistical bird, who volunteers his beak for

    My Novel — Volume 04 Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

  • And yet even the crocodile likes to have his teeth cleaned; insects get into them, and, horrible reptile though he be, he opens his jaws inoffensively to a faithful dentistical bird, who volunteers his beak for a toothpick. '"

    The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 1, April, 1851 Various

  • And yet even the crocodile likes to have his teeth cleaned; insects get into them, and, horrible reptile though he be, he opens his jaws inoffensively to a faithful dentistical bird, who volunteers his beak for a toothpick. '"

    My Novel — Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

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