gum-elastic

The Victoria ascended once more, and made some enormous leaps, like a huge gum-elastic ball, bounding and rebounding through the air.

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Let us suppose the skin and fibres of the convulsionists to acquire, in virtue of their peculiar state of excitement, a consistency analogous to that of gum-elastic; then all the facts that astonish us would become as natural as possible.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 77, March, 1864 Various

There is no corresponding property in gum-elastic.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 77, March, 1864 Various

If, as the officer who certifies appears convinced, all was fair, then M. de Gasparin's admission that a vigorous sword-thrust would penetrate the gum-elastic envelope is fatal to the theory he propounds.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 77, March, 1864 Various

Let us even suppose the breast and stomach of a convulsionist protected by an artificial coating of actual gum-elastic, would it be a safe experiment to drop upon it, from a height of twelve feet, a flint stone weighing fifty pounds?

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 77, March, 1864 Various

I am fain to confess, that this imagining of men and women of gum-elastic, all but the skeleton, does not seem to me so simple a matter as it appears to have been regarded by M. de Gasparin.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 77, March, 1864 Various

Since we understand nothing of the manner of transmutation, it is as easy to imagine bone turned to gum-elastic, as skin and muscle and tendon.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 77, March, 1864 Various

I lost not a moment, accordingly, in throwing overboard first my ballast, then my water-kegs, then my condensing apparatus and gum-elastic chamber, and finally every article within the car.

The Literary World Seventh Reader Hetty Sibyl Browne 1907

I finally threw aside the gum-elastic chamber and unrigged it from around the car.

The Literary World Seventh Reader Hetty Sibyl Browne 1907

I had prepared a very strong, perfectly air-tight gum-elastic bag.

The Literary World Seventh Reader Hetty Sibyl Browne 1907