"Toothbrush" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... a constant revelation to me; was constantly taking me into a new world. The matter of having meals at regular hours, or eating on a tablecloth, using a napkin, the use of the bathtub and of the toothbrush, as well as the use of sheets upon the bed, were all new to ...
— Stories of Achievement, Volume III (of 6) - Orators and Reformers • Various
... a real visitor lately—I mean one who has brought a change, and a toothbrush; and for the auspicious event we rigged him up a stretcher bed, the most comfortable of things, canvas stretched on to a wooden frame, with a mattress on the top. You could not wish for anything softer. He was one of our ocean companions; his nickname of Mike still sticks to him. ...
— A Lady's Life on a Farm in Manitoba • Mrs. Cecil Hall
... the skin is not broken, apply cold water or ice packs until the inflammation has subsided; then use the following: Tincture of Iodine, one ounce; Camphor, two ounces, and Gasolene, eight ounces. Apply with nail or toothbrush every thirty-six hours ...
— The Veterinarian • Chas. J. Korinek
... say anything. His toothbrush was in his mouth, and there wasn't room for words too. So he just scrubbed away as hard as he could. Then he ran back to his room and dressed so quickly that he was all done and out in the garden before Take began to ...
— THE JAPANESE TWINS • Lucy Fitch Perkins
... "A toothbrush?" he said in answer to my question. "Yes, I guess I've got some somewhere round here." He was stooping under and behind his counter and his voice came up from below. "I've got some somewhere—" And then as if talking to himself he murmured from behind a pile of cardboard boxes, ...
— Moonbeams From the Larger Lunacy • Stephen Leacock
... have thought of such a thing as riding Jake. She would have considered it as much as her life was worth to put her saddle on him without first asking Bill. Once she had asked Bill, and Bill had looked as if she had asked for his toothbrush; shocked, incredulous, as though he could not believe his ears. "Well, I should sa-ay not!" Bill had replied when she had made it plain ...
— Skyrider • B. M. Bower
... the latter taking her holiday in town, the other had the temporary charge of the children, and, when first she undertook it, had to be duly enlightened as to the toilet purposes of a wash-hand basin, a sponge, and a toothbrush, not one of which had she apparently been familiar with before; and this would have been the case with a large proportion of the Irish girls who present themselves here to be ...
— Records of Later Life • Frances Anne Kemble
... of sulphur as a tooth powder every night, rubbing the teeth and gums with a rather hard toothbrush. If done after dinner, too, all the better. It preserves the teeth and does not communicate any smell ...
— Our Deportment - Or the Manners, Conduct and Dress of the Most Refined Society • John H. Young
... took an opportunity to purchase, at small hairdresser's in the main street, a toothbrush, a pair of nail scissors, and a little bottle of stuff to darken the moustache, an article the shopman introduced to his attention, recommended highly, and sold in the excitement ...
— The Wheels of Chance - A Bicycling Idyll • H. G. Wells
... said, "yes. He's taken his toothbrush and his sleeping draught.... You know he tried to get leave yesterday and ...
— The Romantic • May Sinclair
... bowsers can be made from pieces of toothbrush handle or from brass or German-silver wire. Very efficient bowsers can be made from aluminum tube cut in sections about 3/16 inch long, with three holes drilled in ...
— Boys' Book of Model Boats • Raymond Francis Yates
... ulster and walked out into a clear starry night. My bag I left lying on a settle in the hall. There was nothing in it to compromise me, but I wished I could have got a toothbrush and ...
— Greenmantle • John Buchan |
