Sentence examples for teeth of time from inspiring English sources

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A good maxim, as Nietzsche remarked, "is too hard for the teeth of time".

Occasionally weak phrases disrupt the poems – "the yellowed teeth of time", "gristle, roaring with calories", horses that "run like mad things" – but for the most part the language is precise and direct, the poems' revelations understated and unsentimental.

He gathered anecdotes about the philosopher Thomas Hobbes, the poet John Milton, the physician William Harvey – to name just three of the hundreds of lives Aubrey wrote – that would otherwise have been lost to what he called "the teeth of time".

And, by chance, this copy escaped fire and flood and the teeth of time for some five hundred years until, one day in 1417, it came into the hands of a man who proudly called himself Poggius Florentinus, Poggio the Florentine.

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Why do best-sellers rarely survive the "tooth of time"?

85 was occupied by Frank Swaney, who gave a party on April 1, 1896, to which guests were asked to come "in ancient suits which displayed the ravages of the tooth of time".

Looking over the bills and feeling the hardness in my liver and the taste of cigars in my mouth, which I cannot get rid of even after brushing my teeth dozens of times with strong American toothpaste, I am surprised that I remember anything of our stay in Paris, but I remember being very, very happy.

A messy, tooth-rotting waste of time it may be, but qat is a symptom not a cause of Yemen's problems.

However, at-home teeth whitening kits are often pricey and painful and natural remedies for whiter teeth can take lots of time.

Laura Robson, not yet out of her teenage years and soon to lose her wisdom teeth, has the consolation of time to soothe the disappointment of losing to Li Na in the third round of the US Open – 12 months after beating the Chinese player at the same stage of the tournament.

The number of remaining teeth and the length of time after the subjects became edentulous were used as continuous variables in one model and categorical variables in the other model.

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