1 Secondhand furniture, ranging from cheap gum to mahogany and rosewood, reared up in the gloom, and the rich but worn brocade and horsehair upholstery gleamed incongruously in the dingy surroundings.
2 Yeh, I'm probably a yahoo, but by gum I do keep my independence by doing odd jobs, and that's more 'n these polite cusses like the clerks in the banks do.'
3 The film was a highly advertised and abysmal thing smacking of simpering hair-dressers, cheap perfume, red-plush suites on the back streets of tenderloins, and complacent fat women chewing gum.
4 I took up the envelope and saw scrawled in red ink upon the inner flap, just above the gum, the letter K three times repeated.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In V. THE FIVE ORANGE PIPS 5 I invented a way of making it with gum shellac and turpentine.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 9: CHAPTER III—A PEN IS HEAVY TO THE MAN WHO LIFTED THE FAUC... 6 She was ghastly, chalkily pale; the red seemed to have gone even from her lips and gums, and the bones of her face stood out prominently; her breathing was painful to see or hear.
7 Even the lips were white, and the gums seemed to have shrunken back from the teeth, as we sometimes see in a corpse after a prolonged illness.
8 He rubbed the brandy, as on another occasion, on her lips and gums and on her wrists and the palms of her hands.
9 Lucy was breathing somewhat stertorously, and her face was at its worst, for the open mouth showed the pale gums.
10 Her breathing grew stertorous, the mouth opened, and the pale gums, drawn back, made the teeth look longer and sharper than ever.
11 The lower teeth and gums were covered with clotted blood and a minute piece of the tongue seemed to have been bitten off.
12 And so he would now study perfumes and the secrets of their manufacture, distilling heavily scented oils and burning odorous gums from the East.
13 Peter's criticism hurt worse than anything Frank or Aunt Pitty or the neighbors had said and it so annoyed her she longed to shake the old darky until his toothless gums clapped together.
14 The worried look had gone from her face and her almost toothless gums showed in a wide smile.
15 'Wise Stubb,' said he, 'wise Stubb;' and kept muttering it all the time, a sort of eating of his own gums like a chimney hag.