Her gaze fixed straight onto the doctor but her teeth were crooked to the side, as if swept by
the wind at some inopportune moment, and frozen into a white fence behind a white forest …

“'Twas midnight's holy hour,” and the great city, with all its burden of humanity, slept in
peace. The pale moon rode the heav ens in serene majesty. The stars looked down from …

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Emigrating to another coun- try is an attractive option for many people, especially when it is …

When we found it we threw it out because the bristles were stained red from gum disease
She told us that it was like that when she found it But we took her to the dentist anyway …

I think of my father, all his life, more with strangers than with us, the years of his boast and wit
expended in the service of people whose names we hardly knew, his best lines delivered to …

“The melancholy days are come, the saddest of the year, Of wailing winds and naked woods
and meadows brown and sere; Heaped in the hollows of the grove the autumn leaves lie …

Interest in the subject which furnishes the topic of this prac tical treatise antedates
considerably the discovery of the first baby's first tooth by the proud new parents. Its …

Aforty-three-year-old long-divorced Cincinnati dental hygienistsits alone at a table in the
deserted plaza ofa village in northern Spain, late summer evening three or four years ago …