teethache

‘When I was young I stood my turn of the teethache like a man! for why? because it couldn’t last for ever; but these rheumatics come to live and die with you.

Lay Morals 2005

That was ten years ago, and he's never had the teethache sence.

Geoffrey Strong Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards 1896

'When I was young I stood my turn of the teethache like a man! for why? because it couldn't last for ever; but these rheumatics come to live and die with you.

Lay Morals Robert Louis Stevenson 1872

– my wife would ha 'done it, as she had ought to, if she wa'n't down with the teethache, and Catherine's away on a jig to Kenton, and the men won't do so much work on nothin', and I can't say nothin 'to 'em if they don't; and I'd like to get that' ere clover-field down afore night: it's goin 'to be a fine spell o' weather.

Queechy 1854

— my wife would ha 'done it, as she had ought to, if she wa'n't down with the teethache, and Catherine's away on a jig to Kenton, and the men wont do so much work on nothin', and I can't say nothin 'to 'em if they don't; and I'd like to get that' ere clover-field down afore night: it's goin 'to be a fine spell

Queechy, Volume II Susan Warner 1852

This bein 'in love is harder'n the teethache, an' is enough ter make one feel like hopin 'ter be an old maid. "

Sweetapple Cove George van Schaick

How would you go to work to cure the teethache now, s'posin 'you had it? "

Geoffrey Strong Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards 1896