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By the way, in case you're wondering, AC 360 also leaves your whole mouth clean, although we have to admit that in the tongue-scraper on the back department, there 360 has RS Beat.
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The silver-gilt box of one of these gentlemen was a complete portable dressing-case, and contained, instead of cartridges, essence bottles, brushes, a mirror, a tongue-scraper, a shell-comb, and -- I do not know that it lacked even a pot of rouge.
Complete Project Gutenberg Collection of Memoirs of Napoleon Various
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The silver-gilt box of one of these gentlemen was a complete portable dressing-case, and contained, instead of cartridges, essence bottles, brushes, a mirror, a tongue-scraper, a shell-comb, and -- I do not know that it lacked even a pot of rouge.
Recollections of the private life of Napoleon Wairy, Louis Constant, 1778-1845 1895
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So much for this parenthesis of the tongue-scraper, which helped to save the young colony from a much more serious scrape, and may save the Union yet, if a
Medical Essays, 1842-1882 Oliver Wendell Holmes 1851
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So much for this parenthesis of the tongue-scraper, which helped to save the young colony from a much more serious scrape, and may save the Union yet, if a Presidential candidate should happen to be taken sick as Massasoit was, and his tongue wanted cleaning, -- which process would not hurt a good many politicians, with or without a typhoid fever.
Complete Project Gutenberg Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Works Oliver Wendell Holmes 1851
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The silver-gilt box of one of these gentlemen was a complete portable dressing-case, and contained, instead of cartridges, essence bottles, brushes, a mirror, a tongue-scraper, a shell-comb, and -- I do not know that it lacked even a pot of rouge.
Recollections of the Private Life of Napoleon — Complete Louis Constant Wairy 1811
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