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Updated: June 29, 2025
The French actor looked at the very pointed toes of his varnished boots and composed his india-rubber features into a solemn, almost priestly, expression. Lady Holme went over to a sofa near the screen and listened attentively to the duet, but from time to time she glanced towards the middle of the room where Miss Schley was still calmly standing up with Leo holding the bouquet.
The fan is 2 ft. diameter, and has only two blades, a larger number being less efficient. The faces of the blades, where they come in contact with the sand, are covered with flaps of India-rubber. Small doors are provided at the side of the pump for cleaning it out, extracting stones, etc.
We have seen that his introduction to India-rubber was through the medium of a life-preserver. His last labors, also, were consecrated to life-saving apparatus, of which he invented or suggested a great variety. His excellent wife was reading to him one evening, in London, an article from a review, in which it was stated that twenty persons perished by drowning every hour.
Then, by means of an india-rubber pipe, Tom Turner and his men replenished their water supply, which was drawn up by a pump worked by the accumulators. Uncle Prudent and Phil Evans stood watching the operation. The same idea occurred to each of them. They were only a few feet from the surface of the stream. They were both good swimmers.
When the trade in india-rubber became fully developed, the trees in the more accessible parts of the forest were soon exhausted, and the collectors were obliged to penetrate farther and farther back into the untrodden wilds of the Atlantic slope.
Samuel Twitter jumped unavoidably, for Welland pushed him just as the hiss and crackle of the water-spouts began. He came down in a heap, rebounded like india-rubber, and was hurled to one side in time to make way for one of his young flock. "The children! the children!" screamed Mrs Twitter, disengaging herself from the vegetables.
Monsieur Levy's eyes at once filled with tears; he murmured a few feeling words about his family, and then pressed my hands warmly: "Thank you, thank you, dear Doctor." Since then, Monsieur Levy has suffered a good deal, I must admit. There are the plugs! And those abominable india-rubber tubes we push into the wounds!
The magnates of Staten Island, however, involved as they were in the general shipwreck of property and credit, were inexorably deaf to his eloquence. As he had formerly exhausted Philadelphia, so now New York seemed exhausted. He became even an object of ridicule. He was regarded as an India-rubber monomaniac. One of his New York friends having been asked how Mr.
The boy seemed as if made of india-rubber, for he sprang up, ducked down, stood on his head, and then went over and over head over heels three or four times before leaping up with a loud shout. "Oh, Mass' George, pull um out; got big forn in um back."
'Proposed, that the committee be impeached for not providing suitable pens. 'Lost, a pencil, with a piece of India-rubber attached to it by a blue ribbon, &c., &c. "Recess was again announced, and the lines commenced their evolutions to the tune of 'Kendall's March. Thought I, 'Oh that there were a new tune under the sun! "Before the close of school some compositions were read.
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