You will be finding enjoyment in
toothache next," you cry, with a laugh.
Tom got out of the presence as quick as he plausibly could, and after that he complained of
toothache for a week, and tied up his jaws every night.
If you feel a
toothache when the other people in the room do not, you are in no way surprised; but if you hear a clap of thunder when they do not, you begin to be alarmed as to your mental condition.
They were there received by Mrs Wilfer in person, whose dignity on this, as on most special occasions, was heightened by a mysterious
toothache.
Thy face shall be wrapped in many rags, for thou hast a most grievous
toothache. Dost understand?"
I guess he's got what some folks ashore call a conscience; it's a kind of Tic-Dolly-row they say --worse nor a
toothache. Well, well; I don't know what it is, but the Lord keep me from catching it.
Another has the
toothache: the carpenter out pincers, and clapping one hand upon his bench bids him be seated there; but the poor fellow unmanageably winces under the unconcluded operation; whirling round the handle of his wooden vice, the carpenter signs him to clap his jaw in that, if he would have him draw the tooth.
(8) Undercutter and Woodcutter are probably popular names (after the style of Hesiod's `Boneless One') for the worm thought to be the cause of teething and
toothache. (9) The list of names is taken -- with five additions -- from Hesiod, "Theogony" 349 ff.: for their general significance see note on that passage.
And as bad luck would have it, he has
toothache too.
The country people put them in long ago, and they think that if they chew a piece of the bark, it will cure the
toothache. The teeth are almost grown over now, and no one comes to the tree."
Its effect upon you is somewhat similar to what would probably be produced by a combined attack of
toothache, indigestion, and cold in the head.
Not only at that time am I the martyr to nerves, but also to
toothache. That morning I 'ave 'ad the
toothache very bad.