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  • Uncle Bill was pounced on by the Princess Giacinta and whirled off into some kind of a dance, he did not know what; round flew the room and the nobility; round flew barrels of teaberry tooth-wash, beautiful princesses, big devils of

    The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 4, April, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy Various

  • It's cheap -- this knowing a princess for a quart of red teaberry tooth-wash, for that's what this "wine" amounts to.

    The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 4, April, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy Various

  • He tendered me a tooth-wash atrocity of his own invention, and when I declined offered to trade knives with me.

    Sketches New And Old Twain, Mark, 1835-1910 1922

  • It appeared, by what I could piece together of the unprofane fragments of his statement, that he had chanced upon Sir Ossaise at dawn of the morning, and been told that if he would make a short cut across the fields and swamps and broken hills and glades, he could head off a company of travelers who would be rare customers for prophylactics and tooth-wash.

    A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court 1889

  • We -- the initiated -- knew where the peculiar taste of soap, tooth-wash, perfume, etc., came from!

    In the Courts of Memory, 1858 1875; from Contemporary Letters 1886

  • Sir Ossaise at dawn of the morning, and been told that if he would make a short cut across the fields and swamps and broken hills and glades, he could head off a company of travelers who would be rare customers for prophylactics and tooth-wash.

    A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court Mark Twain 1872

  • Sir Ossaise at dawn of the morning, and been told that if he would make a short cut across the fields and swamps and broken hills and glades, he could head off a company of travelers who would be rare customers for prophylactics and tooth-wash.

    A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, Part 4. Mark Twain 1872

  • He tendered me a tooth-wash atrocity of his own invention, and when I declined offered to trade knives with me.

    Sketches New and Old Mark Twain 1872

  • "Then come with me to the drug-store; I am going to buy a bottle of tooth-wash, and will change the bill there."

    Walter Sherwood's Probation Horatio Alger 1865

  • [v] pomade and face cream, and nail polish; bottles of hair-wash and tooth-wash; half a dozen gleaming razors; the array of brushes and combs and [v] manicure set in [v] tortoise-shell with his crest in silver; bottles of scent; the purple silk dressing-gown; a soft-fronted shirt fitted with ruby and diamond sleeve-links; the dinner jacket and suit laid out on the glass-topped table, with tie and handkerchief; the silk socks, the glossy pumps.

    The Literary World Seventh Reader Hetty Sibyl Browne 1907

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