 Go away from here," said Tushmaker to Byles, "and return in a week, and I'll draw that tooth for you or know the reason why.". Byles got up, clapped a handkerchief to his jaw, and put forth. Then the dentist went to work, and in three days he invented...  Phoenixiana: Or, Sketches and Burlesques - Page 227by George Horatio Derby - 1856 - 274 pagesFull view - About this book
 | American wit and humor - 1888 - 742 pages
...the chair of torture, and, opening his mouth, discovered there an enormous tooth, on the right hand side, about as large, as he afterwards expressed it,...invented an instrument which he was confident would pull anything. It was a combination of the lever, pully, wheel and axle, inclined plane, wedge and screw.... | |
 | Mark Twain - Fiction - 1888 - 748 pages
...about as large, as he afterwards expressed it, " as a small Polyglot Bible." I shall have trouble *ith this tooth, thought Tushmaker, but he clapped on his...invented an instrument which he was confident would pull anything. It was a combination of the lever, pully, wheel and axle, inclined plane, wedge and screw.... | |
 | Thomas L. Masson - American wit and humor - 1903 - 202 pages
...mouth, discovered there an enormous tooth, on the right-hand side, about as large, as he afterward expressed it, "as a small Polyglot Bible." "I shall...invented an instrument which he was confident would pull anything. It was a combination of the lever, pulley, wheel and axle, inclined plane, wedge and screw.... | |
 | Lionel Strachey - Wit and humor - 1905 - 316 pages
...mouth, discovered there an enormous tooth, on the right-hand side, about as large, as he afterward expressed it, "as a small Polyglot Bible." "I shall...invented an instrument which he was confident would pull anything. It was a combination of the lever, pulley, wheel and axle, inclined plane, wedge, and screw.... | |
 | Mark Twain - American wit and humor - 1906 - 356 pages
...but he clapped on his heaviest forceps, and pulled. It didn't come. Then he tried the turn - screw, exerting his utmost strength, but the tooth wouldn't...invented an instrument which he was confident would pull anything. It was a combination of the lever, pulley, wheel, and axle, inclined plane, wedge, and screw.... | |
 | Joel Chandler Harris - American wit and humor - 1907 - 316 pages
...mouth, discovered there an enormous tooth, on the right-hand side, about as large, as he afterward expressed it, "as a small Polyglot Bible." "I shall...invented an instrument which he was confident would pull anything. It was a combination of the lever, pulley, wheel and axle, inclined plane, wedge, and screw.... | |
 | John Phoenix - Humor - 2008 - 698 pages
...mouth, discovered there an enormous tooth, on the right-hand side, about as large, as he afterward expressed it, " as a small Polyglot Bible." I shall...invented an instrument which he was confident would pull anything. It was a combination of the lever, pulley, wheel and axle, inclined plane, wedge, and screw.... | |
 | John Phoenix - Humor - 2008 - 698 pages
...mouth, discovered there an enormous tooth, on the right-hand side, about as large, as he afterward expressed it, " as a small Polyglot Bible." I shall...invented an instrument which he was confident would pull anything. It was a combination of the lever, pulley, wheel and axle, inclined plane, wedge, and screw.... | |
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