india-rubber

John Brown's donkey's got an india-rubber tail, An 'he rubbed it with camphorated oil! followed by:

THE NUMBERS 2010

An examination showed that one of the india-rubber bands which was round the head of a driving-rod had shrunk so as not quite to fill the socket along which it worked.

Sole Music 2010

Amid a great shuffling of black leather brogans and last-minute adjustments of pistols, muskets, sabers, cartridge belts, bedrolls, india-rubber canteens, and the M1839 forage caps that would keep the South Texas sun off their heads, the nearly five hundred men organized themselves by their separate companies.

'The Training Ground: Grant, Lee, Sherman, and Davis in the Mexican War, 1846-1848' 2008

The prospect which appeared through the door was not calculated to please, as it consisted of a low, dark, and suffocating cabin, filled with men in suits of oilskin, existing in a steamy atmosphere, loaded with the odours of india-rubber, tobacco, and spirits.

The Englishwoman in America 2007

We shall see newspapers started in the first instance by men of honor, falling sooner or later into the hands of men of abilities even lower than the average, but endowed with the resistance of flexibility of india-rubber, qualities denied to noble genius; nay, perhaps the future newspaper proprietor will be the tradesman with capital sufficient to buy venal pens.

A Distinguished Provincial at Paris 2007

He came back radiant, with a whip in his hand for me, an india-rubber whip with a gold handle.

Letters of Two Brides 2007

Here we have also the india-rubber tree, the cork-tree, and several new plants.

The Journals of John McDouall Stuart 2007

“Call for what you like, sweet sir,” said the lady, lifting up a silver filigree bottle, with an india-rubber cork, ornamented with gold.

Burlesques 2006

“Call for what you like, sweet sir,” said the lady, lifting up a silver filigree bottle, with an india-rubber cork, ornamented with gold.

A Legend of the Rhine 2006

For he sometimes shoots up taller like an india-rubber ball,

A Child's Garden of Verses 2005