I play you a rubber of pinochle.'

Fortunately Lady Medlincourt won the rubber, and having collected her winnings, she followed him into the morning-room.

But romantic people are always forgetting to wear their rubbers.

Marjorie asked herself as she took off her rubbers.

"I have not left my room, marchesa, ever since"at last Marescotti left Enrica's side, and approached the marchesa"until an hour ago, when Baldassare"and the count bowed to Adonis, still seated sulky in a corner"came and carried me off in the hope that you would permit me to join your rubber.

"If we lose this rubber, my diamonds will have to go.

M. Talleyrand was enjoying his rubber, when the conversation turned on the recent union of an elderly lady of respectable rank.

Those should expect rubbers who play at bowls; if people pull their own chestnuts out of the fire they must compound for burnt fingers; and when you wager a living, loving, trustful heart against an organ of wax, gutta-percha, or Aberdeen granite, don't be surprised if you get the worst of the game all through.

He knows just where he leaves his shoes; His sweater he won't often lose; An' he can find his rubbers, but He can't tell where his hat is put.

Dinner was delayed for nearly half an hour while four of the guests finished their "rubber."

I once knew her to forfeit a rubber (a five dollar stake), because she would not take advantage of the turn-up knave, which would have given it her, but which she must have claimed by the disgraceful tenure of declaring "two for his heels."

"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.

The natives who gather rubber in the wilds of Brazil, in the Congo, in Ceylon, and elsewhere must combat disease, insects, war, flood, and a hundred hardships.

If Captain Scarborough would come at eleven o'clock Captain Vignolles would ask a few fellows to meet him, and they would havejust a little rubber of whist.

"The blighters interrupted our rubber," said the consul, "and the governor was exceedingly put out.

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.

Skim all froth from the fruit, adding more juice if necessary; wipe the juice from the top of the can, adjust the rubber, put on the top, and screw it down as quickly as possible.

It's raining hard, and you'd let me go out and get my feet sopping wet rather than lend me your new rubbers.

He surely needed rubber, thought Casey, as he scrutinized the two casings on the car.

The forests, which now cover extensive areas, abound in fine woods, and produce rubber and other valuable gums.

They helped the Italian on with his coat, they pulled off his rubbers, they took his coat away and brought him a chair, and dragged a table up to it.

She planted fruit trees there and planned to raise rubber and cocoa and cattle.

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.

He seized the Indian-rubber and rubbed out nose after nose to no purpose, for he never could replace them with a better.

Harber, then, was to manage the plantation; they were going to set out rubber, both Para and native, and try hemp and maybe coffee while they waited for the Haevia and the Ficus to yield.