I play you a rubber of pinochle.'

When you sit back comfortably in your smooth-running car, you may not realize that the rubber in the tire that stands between you and the jolting of the road was carried on the back of a native for a thousand miles out of the Amazon jungle; that for every twenty pounds of the crude juice brought in from the wilds, one human life has been sacrificed.

He had struck the end of the car and rebounded like a ball of rubber at a tangent.

Some evil-minded young miscreant went so far as to put bits of india-rubber on the top of the stove, the consequence being that in a short time a mysterious smell arose of such a fearful and distressing nature that every one was obliged to bolt out into the passage.

Attach a piece of rubber to one end of the glass tube.

Disc valves of india rubber for air pumps.

" "Right you are, but no more hose water for me," answered Tom, and pulled on the rubber with all his might.

The clerk of the court grabbed the fresh-air fund and did a rubber into the family safe for the change.

There were rough red coats and capes, red mittens, squirrel caps pulled well down over curly and smooth heads; glimpses of red woolen stockings; thick shoes with rubbers over them; great parcels of books in straps.

Supposing the invention to be of great value, a number of factories began to make rubber coats, caps, wagon curtains, of pure rubber without cloth.

The cool man plays with the impetuous; the man who can hold his tongue with him who cannot but talk; the man whose practised face will tell no secrets with him who loses a point every rubber by his uncontrolled grimaces.

Their breakfast was eaten in a hurry; and, after drawing on their India-rubber coatsfor Frank said it would rain before they returnedthey slung on their fish-baskets, and took their trout-poles in their hands, and started out.

We should have to take ether and chloroform from the surgeon, and galvanized iron and India rubber from the arts, and give up every sort of machine moved by steam.

You simply can't whirl into town at a thirty-mile gaitI am speaking now of Pinnacle, whose street was a gravelly creek bed quite dry and ridgy between rainsand stop in twice the car's length without scouring more rubber off your tires than a capacity load of passengers will pay for.

Grossengrannel is always looking at the cards, and he wins the odd rubber out of every eleven by his attention.

I was still busily engaged with my books while he threw his wet overcoat and dripping hat on the white bedspread and kicked his rubbers under the stove, the smell of which soon warned me to rescue them before they melted.

"Albizzi o Medici?" had once and again divided the power of Florence, but in the course of high play in the game of politics the latter held the better hands, drew more trumps, and gained rubber after rubber.