1 This man saved Cyril, an apparently perspicacious collie, from being shot by Highland crofters. Cyril’s tooth broke when he bit another dog’s tail. His new owner, a Scottish artist with three gold teeth, paid his dentist £70 to cap Cyril’s canine with gold.
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2 While imprisoned, this assassin, an associate of Stromberg, was beaten by police and left for dead, jaw broken beyond repair. But he escaped. After 14 operations, his jaw was repaired with steel, and razor-sharp teeth were created that could bite through almost anything, but left him mute.
3 When Povey, her draper father’s assistant, had a painful loose tooth, this girl gave him laudanum. When he fell asleep, snoring open-mouthed, she took some pliers from a drawer. Povey sprang from his laudanum sleep and she ran from the room, laughing, with the tooth between her pliers’ points.
4 On a Pacific isle in 1850, this surgeon sifted sand with a teaspoon at the site of a cannibal feast, colllecting human teeth spat out like cherry stones. He sold them to a Piccadilly artisan who made dentures for the Marchioness Grace of Chelsea. She had caused the surgeon to be blackballed. He planned, at her next ball, to announce that she ate with cannibal gnashers and fling more of the teeth into her soup tureen.
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5 This small, weak civilian clerk saw the commander of Ankh-Morpork City Watch felled by Brik the troll. He attacked Brik’s legs, biting. Later, on crutches, he learnt that the tooth attack had earned him the right to be a lance-constable in the Watch.
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6 In Greek legend, this man killed a dragon, then sowed its teeth in the ground. They sprang up as armed warriors.
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7 This sleuth told his doctor friend about the Dundas separation case. “A husband’s cruelty to his wife” was a newspaper heading. The wife complained he had the habit of winding up every meal by taking out his false teeth and hurling them at her.
8 This little girl had 20 royal teeth, admired by the general and the admiral. Her little brother had none. She cleaned the teeth every day. Then one of them wobbled.