But Gummy Carringford possessed a good deal of pluck, and he was strong and wary for so young a boy.
Gummy looked all around, paling and flushing by turn.
When he got back downstairs and the firemen had declared the conflagration entirely extinguished, Gummy found himself quite a hero.
But Janice really had another reason for getting Gummy Carringford to Harriman's store.
Gummy was so much in earnest that he did not even laugh at this.
She gave Gummy a hand, and they ran upstairs with the sack of salt between them.
The walk over the hill and down the lane, crossing the brook Gummy Carringford had once spoken of, was a pleasant walk, after all.
Gummy came in after washing his hands and rubbing his shoes clean on the doormat to talk to the caller.
Gummy turned the horse about and away they went on the return journey.
First of all she wanted to know how Gummy came to have such an awful, awful name!
Gummy is going to work for Mr. Harriman, and that'll help them.
She flung open the door and Gummy flung up the lower sash of the window.
Janice, but whether because of the saddling of Gummy Carringford with such a name, or because of the squirting of onion juice into her left eye, she did not explain at the moment.
With that his gummy eyes he washes, And cas'd his legs in spatterdashes, Then on his arms began to pull An old red waistcoat lin'd with wool; And ere he left the tent he took A sapling of the toughest oak.
But both his eyes being clos'd with gum, From whence this roaring noise did come He could not spy, till fasting spittle Had op'd his gummy eyes a little.
Languid looking house flies crawled out in the afternoons and cleaned their gummy wings while they sunned themselves on the southern sides of stables.
Even then the official displayed a dense and gummy stupidity, for he kept demanding further details and made the other tell everything over to him at least twice.
Various substances besides silk are fabricated into habitations by other larvae, though usually joined together either with silk or an analogous gummy material.
You will very likely find a mass of gummy substance oozing from the tree.
They are composed of a semi-soluble starch, gummy dextrin, and perhaps a little maltose which has a tendency to disturb and to interfere with the normal process of digestion.
Sidenote: Pectins in fruits] Pectins are a group of gummy substances found in fruits, especially green fruits which are in the process of being formed into sugar.
The ordinary glucose or corn-sirup is not all changed by this process, into pure glucose, but contains some maltose and other gummy compounds; hence it will not crystallize or granulate into pure sugar.
The soot had then to be very finely ground, mixed with a gummy medium and then moulded into shape and dried.
It should not be made of black walnut, oak or chestnut, or any wood which has a gummy or resinous quality.
But the lower part of his body was held firm by the gummy snare of the web-spider, a snare far more tenacious than any bird-lime ever manufactured by man.
He had been fascinated by the struggles of the imprisoned insect, coiled in a hopeless tangle of sticky, gummy ropes the thickness of Burl's finger, cast about its body before the spider made any attempt to approach.
Its spinnerets became busy, and with one of its six legs, used like an arm, it flung a sheet of gummy silk impartially over both the tarantula and the man.
Only the web-spiders sat unmoved and immovable in their colossal snares, secure in the knowledge that their gummy webs would discourage attempts at invasion along the slender supporting cables.
Then the eggs are guided down through the long ovipositor to the place prepared for them, and fastened there by a gummy substance.
The female katydids have a long sword-shaped ovipositor with which they roughen the bark on twigs, and place the eggs there, fastening them with a gummy substance.
But his legs and body were inextricably tangled by his own frantic struggling in thegummy and adhesive elastic threads.
Its spinnerets became busy and with one of its eight legs, used like an arm, it flung a sheet of gummy silk impartially over the tarantula and the man.
Only the web spiders sat unmoved and immovable in their collossal snares, secure in the knowledge that their gummy webs could not be invaded along the slender supporting cables.
Presently he would realize the full meaning of the unparalleled feat he had performed in escaping from the giant spider web while cloaked with folds of gummy silk.
He had been fascinated and horrified by the blind struggling of the cricket, tangled in hopeless coils of gummy cord, before the spider began its feast.
He only struggled insanely in the gummy coils of the web.
The cotton seed oil could be produced much cheaper, but it had in it such a quantity of gummy matter as to render it worse than useless for employment on machinery.
Our bodies seemed covered with a varnish-like, gummy matter that defied removal by water alone.
It is probably soon suffocated, for the gummy matter will choke the small air-holes by which it breathes.
It is not a very high tree: the leaves are round and of an ashy colour: it yields a white milky substance, thick and gummy and in great abundance.
When the insect reaches another flower the pollen is scraped off by a sticky or gummy stigmatic surface.
The pungent odor of gummy boughs and of bark, under which still lurked the amber-colored sweat of heated days and sweltering nights, pervaded it.
There is a decrease in the fats and gummy substances, also in nicotine and nitrogenous compounds, and there is a formation of certain organic acids such as malic, citric and oxalic which are essential in the production of flavor.
FINE-CUT is finer and shorter shreds than the long-cut, and the tobacco used is usually of a less gummy kind.
The surface becomes gummy and oily; the oily substances increases and exudates as the days pass.
The residuum consists of a gummy mass from which paraffine and petroleum jelly are extracted.
The cases removed, the rest of the cocoon is soaked in warm water until the gummy matter is softened and the fibres are free enough to be reeled.
Certain it is that the white stems have a very greasy, gummy feel and a rank, aggressive odor.
In many localities, especially in Arizona, the branches of this shrub are thickly incrusted with a certain gummy substance, which careful examination has proved to be almost identical with the East Indian shellac of commerce.
The foliage is glutinous with a gummy exudation, which has a rather disagreeable odor.
If made in considerable quantities at a time, the pigment should be stored in a tight, dust-free receptacle and well covered with water or turps, else it will very soon become gummy and unsuitable for good work.
Granted that first-class filling and surfacing pigments, combined with liquids rich in gummyresinous matters, make the ideal primer, the coating fails of its mission when practices of neglect mark its application to the surface.
Such fluidity could only be obtained by a reduction of the quantity of gummy vehicles together with an increase of ink acidity.
Grège: raw silk, including the gummyouter layer, as spun by a caterpillar.
Grès: the gummy layer surrounding the silk thread spun by a caterpillar.
The inside of this long narrow passage is covered with a gummy paste which the wasp makes with her mouth.
They bring home from the fields something besides pollen and honey; it is a gummy substance which they get from the buds of trees.
Of vegetable origin, it leaves a much more bulky carbon deposit in the explosion chambers than does mineral oil and its great affinity for oxygen causes the formation of voluminousgummy deposit in the crank-case.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "gummy" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
