… if from erosion of the gums, by such things as restore them, strengthen and bind them; if wanting, it may be helped by the factitious; their ſordes are removed, by washing and cleaning them; and their blacknesse, by dentifrices.

The kia-si/kia-su (afraid to die/afraid to lose) attitude of the Totalisator Boards in Malaysia and Singapore is deplorable.

I planted our flag on the Ever White Mountain and watered my horse in the Tuman River.

My hopes wa'n't disappointed. I never saw clams thicker than they was along them inshore flats. I filled my dreener in no time, and then it come to me that 'twouldn't be a bad idee to get a lot more, take 'em with me to Wellmouth, and peddle 'em out. Clams was fairly scarce over that side of the bay and ought to fetch a fair price.