21 Verbs to Use for the Word dentist

And then their eyes met, just as mine met the dentist's, and something suddenly seemed to catch him in the pit of the stomach and everything went black and he heard his voice starting to drool about newts.

I have seen John Bellingham's dentist and obtained particulars from his case-book.

Walpole used to say that Selwyn never thought but à la tête tranchée, and that when he went to have a tooth drawn, he told the dentist he would drop his handkerchief by way of signal.

It is related of a Scottish judge (who has supplied several anecdotes of Scottish stories), that on going to consult a dentist, who, as is usual, placed him in the professional chair, and told his lordship that he must let him put his fingers into his mouth, he exclaimed, "Na! na!

Because its critical feature was the saw-toothed edge, this kind of contract was called indenture (derived from the root denttooth, the same one from which we derive our word dentist).

I remember once detaining a dentist with the drill at one of my lower bicuspids and holding him up for nearly ten minutes with a story about a Scotchman, an Irishman, and a Jew.

I regret to add that a "Poilu" near by disrespectfully referred to it as "another of the horrors of war," adding that in times of peace there was some kind of personal liberty, whereas now "a man could not have toothache without being forced to have it ended, and that there was no possibility of escaping a dentist who hunted you down by motor.

And Betsy?" "Oh, we found a dentist who had an empty stable.

That night, while she was saying her prayers, her mother was surprised to hear her say: "And forgive us our debts as we forgive our dentists.

But Paula, he knew, would just as soon have invited a strange bench-warming dentist to come and work on her teeth by way of being kind to him.

Did he want to throw her straight back into the Lipscomb set, to have her marry a dentist and live in a West Side flat?

My hair will curl, even when shaved within half-an-inch of the scalp; my moustache will stay jet-black, although I sometimes wax the ends of it with soap, and walk on the sunny side of Broadway; my teeth are perfect, and I never need a dentist; and my hands are shameful for a man,so all my old-maid-aunts and bachelor-uncles say.

Nickless were noted colored dentists of Philadelphia.]

He said it almost as Popple might have said "A DENTIST?" and Undine found herself astray in a new labyrinth of social distinctions.

In Paris it snowed heavily, and I was constrained to betake myself in a cab"chauffé," it is needless to remarkto seek out a kindly dentist, the bitter east wind having sought out and found a weak spot wherein to implant an abscess.

It was for supplying the dentists of the old and new worlds; it was for sending teeth as far as China, that their factory required fifteen hundred horse power, and burned a hundred tons of coal a day!

A few Southern petitions were of a contrasting tenor, it is true, one for example presented to the city council of Atlanta in 1859: "We feel aggrieved as Southern citizens that your honorable body tolerates a negro dentist (Roderick Badger) in our midst; and in justice to ourselves and the community it ought to be abated.

If you doubt it, ask the next dentist about the wisdom and courage of average manhood under the dispensation of a bad tooth.

You mustn't trust the dentists; they are all the time looking at the people who have bad teeth, and such as are suffering from toothache.

" Faith is believing the dentist when he says it isn't going to hurt.

COXWELL, a celebrated English aëronaut; bred a dentist; took to ballooning; made 700 ascents; reached with Glaisher an elevation of 7 m.; b. 1819.

21 Verbs to Use for the Word  dentist