Word: rubbering
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...Yale News is our constant visitor, and is always welcome. Its editorial articles are well written and its items interesting; though we own we get tired of running against "Those checked rubber coats" five or six times in the course of one column...
...latest method of making an oyster stew is to drive a couple of small oysters with rubber boots on through a pan of diluted milk. One of the boarding-houses in town has taken out a patent. The boys say that the stew is good and don't taste badly of the rubber...
...Contemptibles," pensively suggested the Ibex, as he sadly slipped a small package of tooth-powder in his rubber boot...
...with prodigious velocity into the ceiling, and again cleaving great furrows in the floor; sometimes riding the bicycle, sometimes the bicycle riding me; and once, after a brief but interesting struggle, I found myself, by a succession of wonderful convolutions, so intricately interwoven with the spokes and hub and rubber tire of the front wheel that I seemed to be a natural and necessary part of its construction; while the hind wheel had thrown itself jauntily into the air, and, with its rapid revolutions, was playing sweet &AEolian melodies against the margin of my ear. All this was more...
...mule started, first with five or six buckjumps of twenty feet or more, and then went off at a tangent down the road, his tail high in the air, puffing fire from his nostrils, and increasing his speed at every jump, whilst the poor detective, bouncing like an india-rubber ball on his back, landed alternately upon the sharp protuberances of the army saddle, and cried to him to stop, that he wanted to get off and walk...