And then, to the long, rubbery nose of the elephant boy, came the wild smell of other jungle animals.
Umboo put his long, rubbery hose of a trunk down into this tub of water, and sucked up a lot, just as you fill your rubber ball at the bathroom basin.
And in the silence rose the short and rubbery report of little Mr. Pogram blowing his nose.
He saw little Mr. Pogram come in, more square and rubbery than ever, and engage in conclave with one of the bewigged.
The last stages of the process are also marked by the formation of free sulphur, which aids materially in softening the leather, and giving the two-bath chrome tanned leather its characteristic rubbery texture.
The acid fermentation evolved neutralises the lime, while bacteria multiply and rapidly reduce the rubbery limed hide to a soft, flaccid condition.
The gluten, when the wheat is mixed with water or some other liquid, becomes gummy and elastic, a fact that accounts for the rubbery consistency of bread dough.
Wheat is universally used for bread, because it contains a large amount of the kind of protein that lends a rubbery consistency to dough and thus makes possible the incorporation of the gas or air required to make bread light.
Well, I was thinking about her, feeling pretty lonesome, and all the time we were approaching that line of rubbery plants.
Their pushcarts were full of stones, sand, chunks of rubbery plants, and such rubbish as that.
You had to tie yourself up like those rubbery contortionists at the music halls, and you had to hold on to the iron stanchions which support the rabbit-hutch roof or you would not have had a whole rib left.
Squinty would call to his brothers and sisters, and they would hunt all over for it, rooting up the earth with their strong, rubbery noses.
And Squinty could also tell, by digging in the ground with his queer, rubbery nose, just where the ground was soft and where it was hard.
No, instead, Squinty began rooting them out of the earth with his strong, rubbery nose, made just for digging.
But all he could root up, with his queer, rubbery nose, was some round stones.
He walked first to one side, and then the other, rooting in the dirt with his funny, rubbery nose.
It hit him on the head with a couple of its big rubbery fingers.
The being strode back with its curious gawky-graceful walk, and firmly turned her face to the wall again, using one bigrubbery finger.
They seemed to have gone allrubbery from his ordeal.
The rubbery blade made squeaking noises as it moved.
In the corner, the rubbery block was still giggling to itself.
Hellman glared at him, but made no move toward the rubbery block.
Within the box they found a rectangular, rubbery red block.
Well there's only one answer to that: the rubbery resilience of the surface.
The substance wasrubbery and lifelike in its resiliency, its tenacious grasp upon the Jeter-Eyer plane.
I ceased struggling, and immediately the rubbery network about me loosened.
The strength in those rubbery tentacles was terrible.
The Moon Weed By Harl Vincent [Illustration: Bart hacked and hacked at the rubbery growth.
The entire clearing seemed to be alive with wriggling things--long rubbery tentacles that crawled along the ground, reaching curling ends high in the air and had even started climbing the trees at the edge of the clearing.
Bart hacked and hacked at the rubbery growth until he had him free; jerked him from his perch, blubbering and whining like a schoolboy.
It was a little more than ten feet square; in the center a seat with curving outlines rose from the floor, apparently made of the same rubbery material as the floor itself.
His one hand was white with a rubbery coating that Chet vaguely knew for latex.
Then the miracle of the daily growth of leaves took place, and the rubbery limbs were clothed in green, where golden flowers budded prodigiously before they flashed open and filled the wet air with their fragrance.
Strange monstrosities, they had been to Chet when first he had seen them, but he was accustomed to them now and passed unnoticing among their rubbery trunks, so black and shining with morning dew.
But the quick-falling dusk caught them while yet among the black rubbery trees.
And now Hendricks, who was peering over the ruffled edge of an undulating, rubbery leaf of seaweed, turned and waved both arms.
In the distance, I could hear the slashing of the tail as it tore through the rubbery growth of weeds.
Rather, they chewed sidewise, like a cat, at the tough rubbery tendrils.
One group after another was tossed up into the rubbery purplish-gray scales that covered the Kao-Wagwattl's spine.
The rubberyfooting was deadly, but it played no favorites.
The ropey, rubbery something was the tube connecting the heater with the gas-fixture.
Larcher, having backed against a hollow metallic object on the floor and knocked his head against a ropey, rubbery something in the air.
With the rise in temperature the casein becomes elastic first, then approaches a melting condition and assumes a tough, almost rubbery consistency.
Dry cheeses are usually harsh, tough and rubbery in texture.
A cheese with this defect is usually firm, hard and dry, sometimes rubbery or corky.
Such curd tends to become hard or rubbery when heat is applied.
If the acid is not developed sufficiently, the cheese will be very rubbery and cure very slowly, in which case bad fermentation and flavor may and often do develop.
