For three months she stayed, too apathetic to seek a better position. Then the dentist's creditors became suddenly impatient, and the dentist could not pay his office rent, much less his office girl. Wherefore Marie found herself looking for work again, just when spring was opening all the fruit blossoms and merchants were smilingly telling one another that business was picking up.英文原著 · 《Cabin Fever》
"Hold the light down here, missis--a little lower. You gentlemen" (to Canty and Dave) "look after his legs and arms. Now, let your head come back--right back, and open your mouth--wide as you can." Dad obeyed, groaning the whole time. It was a bottom-tooth, and the dentist stood behind Dad and bent over him to fasten the sinew round it. Then, twisting it on his wrist, he began to "hang on" with both hands. Dad struggled and groaned--then broke into a bellow and roared like a wild beast. But the dentist only said, "Keep him down!" and the others kept him down.英文原著 · 《On Our Selection》
The case is almost the same with the adventure of an American dentist, very carefully investigated by Dr. Hodgson. The dentist was bending over a bench on which was a little copper in which he was vulcanizing some rubber, when he heard a voice calling, in a quick and imperative manner, these words:英文原著 · 《The Unknown Guest》
But when he landed and met Vere he felt the summer, and knew that the sky was clear. Hermione was not on the island, Vere told him. She had left many apologies, and would be home for lunch. She had had to go in to Naples to see the dentist. A tooth had troubled her in the night. She had gone by tram. As Vere explained Artois had a moment of surprise, a moment of suspicion--even of vexation. But it passed when Vere said:
"I'm afraid poor Madre suffered a great deal.英文原著 · 《A Spirit in Prison》
There was no sign of a private sitting room that I could put at this young man's disposal, but he himself has solved the difficulty by proposing to occupy our new laboratory. So he spends his evenings with a book and a pipe, comfortably stretched in the dentist's chair. There are not many society men who would be willing to spend their evenings so harmlessly. That girl in Detroit is a lucky young thing.英文原著 · 《Dear Enemy》
Jane hasn't. Sadie's excellent ears are still intact. She is just squealing on principle; the way one does in a dentist's chair, under the belief that it is going to hurt the next instant.英文原著 · 《Dear Enemy》