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Those cherries fairly do enclose Of orient pearl a double row, Which, when her lovely laughter shows, They look like rosebuds fill'd with snow. - set to music by Richard Alison, An Howre's Recreation in Musike My bone cleaveth to my skin and to my flesh, and I am escaped with the skin of my teeth. - Bible, Job (ch. XIX, v. 20) My curse upon thy venom'd stang, That shoots my tortured gums alang; And through my lugs gies monie a twang, Wi' gnawing vengeance, Tearing my nerves wi' bitter pang, Like racking engines! - Robert Burns, Address to the Toothache One said a tooth drawer was a kind of unconscionable trade, because his trade was nothing else but to take away those things whereby every man gets his living. - William Hazlitt (1), Shakespeare Jest Books--Conceits, Clinches, Flashes and Whimzies (no. 84) Some ask'd how pearls did grow, and where, Then spoke I to my girle, To part her lips, and showed them there The quarelets of pearl. - Robert Herrick, The Rock of Rubies, and the Quarrie of Pearls Those cherries fairly do enclose Of orient pearl a double row, Which, when her lovely laughter shows, They look like rosebuds fill'd with snow. - Edgar Watson Howe Thais has black, Laecania white teeth; what is the reason? Thais has her own, Laecania bought ones. - Martial (Marcus Valerius Martialis), Epigrams (bk. V, ep. 43) I have the toothache. . . . . What? sigh for the toothache? - William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing (Benedick & Pedro at III, ii) I will be flesh and blood; For there was never yet philosopher That could endure the toothache patiently, However they have writ the style of gods And make a push at chance and sufferance. - William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing (Leonato at V, i) In the spyght of his tethe. - John Skelton, Why Come Ye nat to Courte (l. 939)
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