toothful

Example Sentences

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Now, just a toothful of my orange cordial, Master Sep. Now, don’t say no, because you must.

From Mad A Story of Dust and Ashes by Fenn, George Manville

The signal officer was looking wise over something that boomed and buzzed alternately; the machine-gun officer may, or may not, have been enjoying another toothful.

From No Man's Land by McNeile, H. C. (Herman Cyril)

Of course it is better late than never, only not much bliss follows late attendance, and hardly a toothful of ecstacy can be obtained in three-quarters of a minute.

From Our Churches and Chapels Their Parsons, Priests, & Congregations Being a Critical and Historical Account of Every Place of Worship in Preston by Atticus

O'CROWLEY Constable McCarthy, let you take a toothful out of that decanter and tell us what it is.

From Duty, and other Irish Comedies by O'Brien, Seumas

All day I laid in the bunk reading the' Woman-Hater,' the grandest book Charlie Reade ever wrote, an' pickin' a toothful here an' there.

From The Day's Work - Volume 1 by Kipling, Rudyard