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Example sentences for "indiarubber"

Lexicographically close words:
index; indexed; indexes; indexing; indi; indica; indican; indicate; indicated; indicates
  1. In wet weather indiarubber soles are very slippery, but in dry weather, on rocks, they are perfect.

  2. Carbine Bucket } Shoes with indiarubber soles strapped on outside the wallets.

  3. They were whirled about from this side to that like indiarubber balls.

  4. And once again, to the strains of this extraordinary incantation, Plunger was sent whirling about the ring from side to side, as though he were an indiarubber ball.

  5. To each of these attach an indiarubber tube, one four feet long, and the other six.

  6. Tie a thin piece of light indiarubber round the top of the bottle, and you will notice that as the air is withdrawn, the indiarubber will stretch, and at length form a round small balloon in the interior of the bottle.

  7. Apply to the other end the indiarubber tube which conducts the forced air, and the ball will be lifted up (see fig.

  8. The traces of the person wearing indiarubber shoes were at first fairly well defined.

  9. One thing I noticed: he was not wearing indiarubber shoes.

  10. On removing the pencil, the dimple immediately disappears, just as the depression caused by pushing the finger into a stretched sheet of indiarubber becomes straight immediately the finger is removed.

  11. If we take a balloon of indiarubber filled with water, and rest it on a table, the weight of the enclosed water will naturally tend to stretch the balloon sideways, and so to flatten it.

  12. If we take a disc of stretched indiarubber and place a weight upon it, we cause a depression which increases the area of the surface.

  13. This is exactly what we should expect to happen if a filled skin of indiarubber were stretched until it gave way at the narrowest part.

  14. If a piece of indiarubber lying on the table be pressed downwards with the finger it will move up when the finger is removed.

  15. An indiarubber tube may be taken as an illustration, and made to vibrate by a motion of the hand.

  16. So remember that if you repot Indiarubber plants and Palms at all, take a pot only slightly larger than the last.

  17. The Indiarubber (Ficus Indica) and Palms are plants that you must be careful not to overpot.

  18. Remember, too, that if you overwater an Indiarubber plant its leaves will turn yellow and drop off, while Palms must not be allowed to suffer from drought.

  19. A waterproof overall and indiarubber boots were essential for this performance, and old gauntlet gloves were a precaution against stinging fish, advisable for the uninitiated.

  20. I stooped and picked it up, to find that it was one of the solid indiarubber balls we used for our games at rounders, and tightly fastened around it was a piece of thin twine, the strong, light string we used for kites.

  21. For a short time such a volume is pleasant enough to handle, and opens freely, but before long the indiarubber perishes, and the leaves and plates fall apart.

  22. To prepare indiarubber for cleaning off gold, a piece of bottle rubber is cut into small pieces and soaked in paraffin for some hours.

  23. Some books in which there are a large number of plates are cut into single leaves, which are held together at the back by a coating of an indiarubber solution.

  24. When all the prepared part of a pattern has been tooled, it is well rubbed to remove the loose gold with a slightly greasy rag, or with a piece of bottle indiarubber which has been softened in paraffin.

  25. Hazel looked at Percy, but he avoided her eye, and sitting down with his back to her, he began to fill a little cutty pipe from an indiarubber pouch.

  26. They had thoughts of buying a live indiarubber plant to stand by the window, when unexpectedly the man died.

  27. An indiarubber heel-plate is sometimes a wise precaution, to avoid a bruised shoulder and arm, which if you happen to be going to a ball, does not perhaps add to your beauty!

  28. Many rifle shots have indiarubber tubes for this purpose, and blow down the barrel through them from the breech end.

  29. There was a huge negress, arms akimbo, a shapeless monument in black indiarubber draped in cotton print, who talked loudly with a red boneless mouth to two disregarding Indians sitting with their backs to a wall.

  30. I had an indiarubber bag for all my belongings, being told that it was best for strapping to a mule, and a valuable lifebuoy when a canoe overturned.

  31. He could only hear a scuffle, and then saw the two men bounding over the wall like indiarubber balls while the cock went bang against it like a battering-ram.

  32. Their manner of leaping is a la indiarubber ball.

  33. The end is then connected to an ordinary bracket or burner by means of an indiarubber tube G, and a short piece of tubing is fitted with a bone or other mouthpiece, and attached to the projecting end of the air tube.

  34. By using the elbow D, the two supply pipes are brought parallel to each other, so that the indiarubber connecting tubes can be more easily held in the hand like reins, as by simply squeezing them the flame can be readily regulated.

  35. Of course, the other end, which comes outside, must be smoothed to prevent injury to the indiarubber tube used for making connection with the bellows.

  36. A foot-bellows is generally used for supplying the air, the bellows being connected with the air jet J by means of an indiarubber tube.

  37. All indiarubber tubing must be perfectly smooth inside, for if it is wired or in any way rough, the resultant friction will cause a loss of pressure.

  38. Mr. Lavender, somewhat dazed, for the indiarubber had been hard, sat gazing through the little back window at the great city he was leaving.

  39. By means of a stamp, either of indiarubber or, more probably, of chromicized gelatine.

  40. Inside the cylinder works a bucket B, similar to that of a common lift-pump, having an indiarubber disc valve on the top side; and the rod D of the bottom clack passes freely through the bucket.

  41. Better still, use a scrap of indiarubber to rub the glass with, and you will reproduce with some fidelity the sound in question.

  42. They even share out the indiarubber pouch, and chew the pieces as long as the flavour lasts.

  43. The one I've got is an old gamp with a stout indiarubber ring to it.

  44. It is an old one, recognisable by its cane handle (crook) and an indiarubber ring round the shaft.


  45. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "indiarubber" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.