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Reynolds fell, with soul unquaking,    Ardent-eyed and open-browed: Noble men in humbler raiment    Fell where shot their graves had plowed, Dying not for paltry payment:    Proud of home, of honor proud.

From Dreams and Days: Poems by Lathrop, George Parsons

But yesterday my teeth were aching, and to the painless dentist's lair I took my way, unawed, unquaking, and sat down in the fatal chair.

From Rippling Rhymes by Mason, Walt

But yesterday my teeth were aching, and to the painless dentist's lair I took my way, unawed, unquaking, and sat down in the fatal chair.

From Rippling Rhymes by Mason, Walt