| 单词 | rubber |
| 例句 | Your Aunt Clara give you a rubber mouse and you wouldn’t have nothing to do with it.” Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z “No. I heard it plunk against rubber. It’s in the trash but I can’t find it!” Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z It was a rubber alligator, which Officer Delinko had purchased at the tourist shop. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Those frogmen went quietly at night in small rubber boats into the enemy territory. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z Joe flashed her a sheepish smile as he gathered a pair of rubber gloves, a plastic bowl, and the half-empty container of hair dye into a shopping bag. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z The paramedics tie them around your arm when they need to take blood, but Digger used it like a rubber band and took aim at J.T. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z Usually, it reeked of sweat and rubber with a hint of cheap fruity body spray. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z Perhaps we had become a little arrogant with our fine new technique of ice-claw and rubber slipper, our age of easy mechanical conquest. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z I wear a green rubber hood and act in my role as the Speech Monster. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z He washed out the formaline jug, cleaned his forceps, powdered and took off his rubber gloves. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Doc pulled on his rubber boots and set his rain hat fussily. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Working with his hands in the rubber gloves protruding into the cabinets, Gene Johnson took a little bit of the boy’s blood serum and dropped it into flasks that contained living cells from a monkey. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z He looked at his offerings: hand sanitizer and rubber bands and an old piece of candy all wrapped messily in tired newsprint. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z Leah blurted out all in a rush, “So the plain simple grass of God’s creation can be just as strong as, as rubber or whatnot!” The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Why did Arnold single me out for his rubber- band torture? The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z There were flashing lights and men in black rubber coats holding canvas hoses with big jets of water coming out of them. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z The weather box on the front door sang quietly: “Rain, rain, go away; rubbers, raincoats for today . . .” And the rain tapped on the empty house, echoing. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z I still remember certain things about the woman: she wore white rubber Korean slippers that were shaped exactly like miniature canoes. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z We’re also trying to keep open the agricultural extension program, training former rubber workers to subsistence farming. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Pieces of melted plastic fell to the floor, giving off dark smoke that smelled like burnt rubber. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z Pens and colored pencils held together with a rubber band. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z Around the front door lay a jumble of rubber boots and a very rusty cauldron. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z She saw some terry cloth and a rubber shower clog at the end of a hairy leg. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The afghan is draped across her thighs, the rubber plant rises behind her like a fan. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z He tore out, leaving behind the smell of burnt rubber and the squeal of his tires. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z The world beyond the rubber mask was stupendously vivid but seemed not quite real, as if a movie were being projected in slow motion across the front of my goggles. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z But she was real, stepping out of her boat and wading up to Barry in tall rubber boots. I Survived Hurricane Katrina, 2005 2011-04-01T00:00:00Z Besides, the boys would not go in the kitchen because they were terrified of Betty whom they had seen on the stairs grimly carrying red rubber sheets toward their room. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z She was wearing rubber boots and her umbrella dripped with rain. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z “I guess we’d better go see this rubber mule,” he says, draining his glass in a single gulp. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z Shorty whips the rubber apron off my neck and blots my hair and neck dry. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z Off to one side a small wagon with rubber tires. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z Sissy brought Francie a present, a corncob pipe that you blew into and a rubber hen popped up and swelled over the pipe bowl. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Now, I don’t want to have to come in that cell and rubber hose you until you’re so broke up inside that blood’s pourin’ out of every openin’ you got, but if I have to...” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z An iron pipe rammed into the pit of his stomach, turning his legs to rubber. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z In the tank David’s rubber duck bobs along the surface, a goldfish mouthing his tail. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z Mean little buds resisting the touch, springing like rubber. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z I had always counted on these friends to loan me the adhesive of my choice, but then, seemingly overnight, their Scotch tape and rubber cement were gone, replaced with odorless computers and spongy mouse pads. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z Holly pulled a rubber cylinder from the dash and slipped it between her teeth. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z “Will you make sure always to use a rubber? One must be careful, even with the most educated of these people.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z She seemed like some kind of fairy—a beautiful fairy in a yellow rubber boat—from one of Cleo’s bedtime stories. I Survived Hurricane Katrina, 2005 2011-04-01T00:00:00Z She must have recognized it, too, because before I could even get another word in, she was pulling off one of her yellow rubber gloves and reaching toward it. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z They snap on their rubber gloves, clean him up, change his clothes—he always wears sweats—and sit him back in his chair. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z A cracked rubber nipple from a baby bottle. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z "It's not that big a deal," said Jessie again, her voice stretched tight like a rubber band. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z She lobs something toward me, and I grab what turns out to be a bundle of brand-new markers in rainbow colors, held together with a fat rubber band. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z The doctor pulled my hair back, twisting it up into a messy bun that she secured with a rubber band. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z “Three quarters, two dimes, a rubber band and—score! A piece of celery” He started munching on the celery, eyeing the change and the rubber band like they might be next. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Bobby was conceived in the afternoon, on a sofa littered with rubber teething toys, after the friend learned that a London pharmaceutical company had hired him, while Ronny cried to be freed from his playpen. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z Wearing a rubber glove on his hand, he reached down into the nest as far as his arm pit. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z They crouched in place, sizing each other up before carefully placing their toads on the rubber rainbow track but not letting go just yet. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z She kicked at the ground in her muddy pink rubbers. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z Agents praise the dog and let her play with a rubber toy. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z A pair of nylon shoes with rubber soles. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z Gregor and Boots shot up fifty feet in the air and yo-yoed up and down like they were on a big rubber band. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z “Yes, Zola, peoples get afraid when—” Zola makes a rubber mouth like her father. The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z “Do you want me to mangle your face or do you want me just to work you over with a rubber hose so all the damage will be internal?” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z I expected the smell of rubber too, and the pain; but there was not as much pain, and not nearly as much blood as everyone said. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z Cole examined the boxes filled with canned foods, clothes, bedroll, ax, cook- ing gear, heavy rain gear, rubber boots, and even school- work he was supposed to complete. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z Without turning around, I reply, “A large, round rubber animal you bounce around on. You hold on to the ears.” I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z Doc rolled up his wool socks and put them in the rubber boots and from his pocket he brought out dry socks and a pair of thin moccasins. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Sometimes I set up a bunch of toy soldiers on a table and pick them off with a rubber band one by one. The Million Dollar Shot 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z “See that little black rubber dot, the inflation hole? Make sure that hole is facing up all the time.” The Million Dollar Shot 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z Inside there was a hatchet, the kind with a steel handle and a rubber handgrip. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z “Look at those old American cars. They’re held together with rubber bands and paper clips and still work better than the new Russian ones. Oye!” she calls out to the bystanders. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z For this theory to give the observed value of the strong force between particles, the strings had to be like rubber bands with a pull of about ten tons. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z I laid out a pair of green rubber gauntlet gloves, yellow rubber boots, a black mask with twin purple filters. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Agnew inserted two rubber tubes to drain the pus filling the channel that extended down from the bullet wound. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z The infinite zero of a black hole—mass crammed into zero space, curving space infinitely—punches a hole in the smooth rubber sheet. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z The sheriff was laying hands on things—rain gear, rubber gloves, floats, lines, hose, life ring, deck broom, buckets. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z She cut four strips of rubber from the tire, then wrapped them around the crutch tops and grips and secured them with twine in silence. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z I finger the rubber crack where the window goes into the door. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z Those who were too poor to own a pair of even rubber shoes. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z I dug some clean clothes out of my suitcase and set the Dancing Fan back on its rubber feet. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z He pulls the rubber band from his hair and tosses it to the table. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z Mrs. Hayward lived on a farm, always wore black rubber boots to class, often smelled of manure and probably wasn’t the most popular teacher in the staff room. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z And then he tells me about the rubber plantations. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z I stacked my deck of cards, put a rubber band around them, dropped them in my backpack, and said, “Way to go, man,” and wished I hadn’t. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z I have to squeeze a rubber ball between my legs. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z She pulls on the rubber gloves she keeps in her top drawer and lifts the painting by the corners. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z I don’t think the Hells Angel followed because I could hear their car take off and peel rubber as it hit the main road. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z The mask had an insectile appearance, and the rubber was black and wet looking, sinister. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z In our hooded parkas, we roll like logs down the cold, wet snow, thinking the next thing to touch us will be the hard rubber of a car tire. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Then the surgeons inserted a rubber drainage tube. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z She stuffed Matt into a long-sleeved shirt and trousers and gave him a pair of rubber sandals to wear. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z At first I simply used a rubber band. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z A medical evacuation Jeep got me through disguised as a corpse all the way to Bikoki, an old rubber plantation settlement outside of Coquilhatville. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Beside it, on its own little platform, sat a rubber mallet resting on a black velvet pillow. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z Tendai looked at them from the floor, where he had slid when his knees turned to rubber. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z To create the drums, the boys stretched thick plastic bags tightly across the tops of the cans, securing the bags with rubber bands. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z Evan was lying on a blanket next to his brother, gnawing on a rubber giraffe. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z The room smelled like rubber from the loops of fan belts hanging from the ceiling. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z He bought Lolo rubber shoes at the beach shop, and we ate our hot dogs without talking. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z She places the box on a rubber pad, then punches a sequence on her keypad. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z “His legs’ll be rubber by next week if they keep that up.” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z And that became a delighted, breathless, Rumpelstiltskin-like dance among the rubber trees. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z She imagined his thick lips moving like warm, softened rubber. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Doctors came running up from every direction with needles, lights, tubes, rubber mallets and oscillating metal tines. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z It was a pair of blue rubber testicles. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z We made wooden boats out of cigar boxes, devised wooden paddles to which we twisted pieces of rubber and sent the cigar-box boats sailing down the ditch under their own power. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Portia pulled her earrings so that the lobes of her ears stretched like rubber. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z He slammed down a rubber gavel on his desk. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z By the time Chacko emigrated to Canada, the family’s only income came from the rubber estate that adjoined the Ayemenem House and the few coconut trees in the compound. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z It had no cycles, so you waited until the water got dirty, then put the clothes through the wringer—two rubber rolling pins rigged above the tub that were turned by a motor. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z It had a nasty taste—half rubber, half dust. Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z Old Sally didn't talk much, except to rave about the Lunts, because she was busy rubbering and being charming. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z And next to it is a floor lamp, a long black pole with three oval spotlights attached like the broad leaves of a rubber plant. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z “You used to carry your tobacco in a rubber pouch,” said Edna, picking up the pouch and examining the needlework. The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z Then, dressed in a rubber apron and wooden clogs, she lit her kiln, prepared her worktables, and pounded the clay for her classes, her arms up to her elbows in the coarse, cold mud. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Now I can walk about and talk and answer questions without fear of having suddenly to lean against the wall because the world turns soft as rubber and my veins become brimstone. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z “I can’t get all the rubber off her heels,” she said, as she saw them approaching. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z Instead, he’s right in the middle, elbows on knees, stretching and releasing his rubber band. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z Food for weeks, tent, a rubber boat, first-aid kit and mosquito repellent, fishing gear, a gun—a gun. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z Blue light streamed out of it, and she removed a pair of yellow rubber boots. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z They were made from fiberglass, metal, and rubber. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z I had always been very flexible, and my skin stretched like soft rubber. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z He was trying to get the rubber stopper out of the bottom of the bank. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z They, his foster parents Frank and Cora Mercer, had found him floating on an inflated rubber air-rescue raft, off the coast of New England...or had it been Mexico, near the port of Tampico? Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z The police countered by dispersing mourners with tear gas, police dogs, rubber bullets and truncheons. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z I put on my mom’s rubber cleaning gloves, crammed some toilet paper up my nose, took a swampy breath through my mouth, and fished it out. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z He felt as though he had just been forced through a very tight rubber tube. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z My legs are two pieces of soft, wiggly rubber. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z Or the Nazi saboteurs in a rubber boat filled with explosives bobbing in the water not twenty feet away from him. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z Nancy and C. J., along with Dan Dalgard, circled around to the back of the building, put on rubber gloves and paper surgical masks, and went into Room H to look at the sick monkeys. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z He unzippered a pocket of his windbreaker and brought out a paper sack; inside it were the recently purchased rubber gloves. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z Some of the boxes had broken open on the way, spilling hot uranium over the truck bed; Seaborg advised his assistants to wear rubber gloves to sweep up the detritus. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z The night nurse had come in, unnoticed, on her soft rubber soles. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z Their rubber boots splashed in pools of water on the floor. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z You couldn't just go around announcing that your mom was Athena, the goddess who invented the loom; Most people would lock you in a rubber room. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z She had picked up her wand from the table, and it had emitted a loud squeak and turned into a giant rubber mouse. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z These were the space suit’s main gloves, and they were made of heavy rubber. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Chip adjusted the rubber band holding his hair in place. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z The book was narrow, bound by a cardboardlike cover, and had a rubber band wrapped around it. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z But as I squeezed the stiff rubber in my hand, I thought of how fitting that word was now. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z Poking out of the end of his robes was what looked like a thick, flesh-colored rubber glove. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z The hole was connected by a rubber tube to a catchment pouch made of thick, transparent plastic. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z “For a new start!” he says, with the happy rubber cheeks. The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z I hear the squeak-squeak-squeak of rubber soles, and moments later I’m engulfed by nurses. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z I thought up another one right off, but needing a little time to work it out, all I said was, “Maybe I’ll tell y’all about Aunt Loma and the rubber busts.” Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z Estha and Rahel had no doubt that the house Chacko meant was the house on the other side of the river, in the middle of the abandoned rubber estate where they had never been. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z His rubber sandals had been blown off He lay at the center of the trail, his right leg bent beneath him, his one eye shut, his other eye a huge star-shaped hole. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z She throws me in the tub with a rubber duck toy and storms off to her bedroom. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z I take the rubber band off my wrist and yank my hair into a ponytail. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z Both of them always dropping their rattles or rubber pacifiers and tangling themselves in blankets, why so tortured, little angels? All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z We ridicule their piety, their small economies, the size of their feet, their rubber plant, which sums them up. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z She put on rubber gloves, but other than that, she did not take any special precautions in handling the blood. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z That light would not have disappeared as the balloon universe expanded; it would instead have gotten stretched out as the rubber fabric of space-time stretched. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z It was held together by a Love-in-Tokyo—two beads on a rubber band, nothing to do with Love or Tokyo. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Along the wall of the staging area was a row of stainless- steel cabinets with rubber gloves protruding into them. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z "Out," he says, motioning with the rubber truncheon. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z The flat trolleys with the rubber wheels pass continually along the corridor, and always with someone stretched at full length upon them. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z She lit one now, a long black cigar that smelt of burning rubber. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z I wrapped Charley’s tail in red Kleenex and fastened it with rubber bands. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z He wanted to get back to Pyongyang in time to vote in the August election for the Supreme People’s Assembly, the rubber stamp parliament of North Korea. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z There were several lifelike rubber things—spiders, snakes and bugs. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z It was hard to stand once you’d sunk into its squishy foam rubber cushions. The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z By the time I put it out for dinner that night, it was like rubber. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z She was pulling on a pair of rubber gloves as she looked at me. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z A quick check revealed a fist-sized chunk of frozen drool blocking the rubber valve that admitted ambient air into the mask from the atmosphere. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z He stood aside and she peered down into the obscurity odorous of dank earth and mold and rubber. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z On their feet, they wore sneakers, and over the sneakers they pulled bright yellow rubber boots. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z It smelled of grain and of harness dressing and of axle grease and of rubber boots and of new rope. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z The sound of rubber slippers echoed on the silent road. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z She didn’t move for a while, keeping her hands pressed to her face and her body against the rubber floor. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z She reached into my mouth, pulled out the rubber mouthpiece, and put it in a small white bag. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z The streets were empty, save for an occasional car that zoomed past on swift rubber tires. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z Pressure was put on him by a determined poet whose dreams were brass, cast iron, and rubber. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Two planks in the bulkhead shifted apart like they were made of rubber, and the girl disappeared into the darkness. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z Every inch of his body ached and his muscles were rubber, but somehow he managed to make it on his own, falling to the floor of the cockpit in a heap. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z The Belgians and the Americans who run the rubber plantations and copper mines, I imagine, are using larger sacks. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z The curvature of the rubber sheet is not only a curvature of space, but a curvature of time as well. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Normally she would have noticed that a few unruly locks of Emma’s hair were already slipping out of her ponytail rubber band and Emma had started absent-mindedly twirling one of them around her finger. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z Past the resentful older houses tinged green with envy, cowering in their private driveways among their private rubber trees. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z We learn to sit up straight, eyes front, faces blank, both feet on the floor, listening to the whack of rubber on cringing flesh. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z He dropped the rubber float on its back. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z At the Rad Lab, Wilson contributed ingenious improvements to the cyclotron, among them a rubber gasket allowing probes to be inserted and withdrawn from the chamber without compromising the vacuum. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z We staggered from our boats with legs made of rubber. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z “Then snap a rubber band around its snout,” she said. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z His daddy would take him to the garage and whip him with a rubber hose-pipe trying to beat the girl out a that boy until I couldn’t stand it no more. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z It made its big profits from other rubber articles which were bought in whispers. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z As panicked marchers scattered in all directions, Sheriff Clark’s mounted possemen let loose with a rebel yell and charged, swinging bullwhips and rubber tubing wrapped in barbed wire. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z From above, through the iron grilles that open onto the streets, he had heard the thrumming of the rubber tires of automobiles, and the hooting of their horns, and the howling of their brakes. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z Suddenly her senses were on high alert, as if somebody had snapped a rubber band against the base of her neck. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z She slammed the car into drive and pulled off in a cloud of burning rubber and smoke, swerving down the street, screaming hysterically— “ Wooooooooo!” The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Wes watched as, across the street, a young man no older than sixteen pulled out a wad of cash, held together by a rubber band, and began showing it off to a friend. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z Then I looked at the left rear tire, and to my horror saw a great rubber bubble on its side and, farther along, another. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z Instead, I played alone in the back yard, bouncing a rubber ball off the fence, drawing figures in the soft clay with an old knife, or reading what books I found about the house. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Another suggestion was to attach one end of a rubber tube to an air pump while sticking the other end into the wound until it reached the bullet. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z And here” He held out two small rubber plugs. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z In case you didn’t know this, a practice pad is a thick, dense, flat piece of rubber. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z The mask stays on your face with a little rubber band that goes around the back of your neck. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Blows were random, unexpected, and undeserved: a rubber truncheon across the back, a gun butt to the ribs, a kick in the rear or the stomach. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z But he won’t stop till the soles and heels are covered with squares of rubber tire which stick out on each side of the shoe and flop before and behind. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z “Do not defy me—” “And it wouldn’t hurt to play with Cerberus once in a while. He likes red rubber balls.” The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z Aileen pulled rubber gloves from her purse, snapped them over her hands, and ducked below the service window in the basement hallway to the small metal door by the dishwashing room. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z It was like a tap from a rubber hammer. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z A revolting smell of burnt rubber seeped up from the debris. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z There’s a rubber thing like the top of a mushroom, and a tube of toothpaste that isn’t toothpaste. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z I stacked the cards and fastened them together with a rubber band and put them in my backpack. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z She flexed her toes in her little leather slippers, reveling in the familiar feel of them on her feet, bouncing on her nubbly rubber soles, fearless and eager. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z After Nick had turned the gun admiringly over in his hands once or twice, he set it back on the rubber mat again. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z The shrunken head wasn’t real, of course, but it was an expensive rubber one that did look terribly, real. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z The oldest of the address books, bought twenty- eight years ago at a stationery store in Harvard Square, has a pebbly black cover and blue pages, bound together by a rubber band. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z She spat out the rubber band and bound up the bottom of Pita’s braid. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z He had brought an overnight bag with a toothbrush, and he had managed to pack a few paper surgical masks and some gowns and rubber gloves into the bag. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z All it meant was that I had to throw a couple of switches, which would fill rubber bags on our nose with air, and then we would slowly topple back upright. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z At that cue, Zora in her rubber suit with the flashing green sequin scales would tumble into the tank. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z If you work your way in far enough, you will find a girl, or sometimes two, lying on a riser carpeted in foam rubber. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z I think Jessica is too beautiful to be working at a dreary clinic with rubber balls and rusty gym equipment. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z He taught me to play soccer with his friends, using makeshift balls made from wadded-up plastic bags and rubber bands. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z And, yes, there was still a trace of the sweat and rubber, but overall, the place looked magical. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z The boys bother us no more and we wear our shoes with the rubber tires the few weeks to Easter when the St.Vincent de Paul Society gives us the gift of boots. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z My rubber boots crunched into the slush and frozen mud. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z I turned onto my side and ripped the rubber band out, quickly combing through the plaits with my fingers. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z Dogs, lean and dirty, slunk around the houses, and children played innocently in the nude or near nude with discarded rubber tires. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z “You don’t have to worry about anything. I’ll wear a rubber, you don’t have to worry about pregnant.” The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z Every muscle in my body is strained, like a rubber band stretched a millimeter too far. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z Brandon shushed everybody when they giggled, as he took a thick rubber band off of his wrist. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z Many Amazonian Indian groups were similarly eliminated by private settlers during the rubber boom of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The smell of rubber and exhaust, the sound of too many cars going nowhere, the taste of ozone in the air. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z We met in the sword arena, which I thought was pretty strange—trying to discuss the fate of the camp while Mrs. O’Leary chewed on a life-size squeaky pink rubber yak. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z She merely folded her hands in her lap, rubber gloves squeaking, and blinked at him innocently. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z My body feels like rubber and my brain like chewing gum. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z Her hair was dyed fiery red for the part, and she wore a fake nose with a rubber wart on the tip of it. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Surrounded by a sea of twisting rubber snakes. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Crooks possessed several pairs of shoes, a pair of rubber boots, a big alarm clock and a single-barreled shotgun. Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z There’s a glass counter at the side with lots of different piercings for sale, and some rubber models of blank mannequin faces with silver studs in the ears, nostrils, eyebrows, and lips. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z The remaining rubber plug he then threw out of sight down the field, with a single lunge ending in a powerful downward thrust of his wrist. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z He went tearing after it as if there was nothing else in the world but that old rubber ball. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z Why didn’t we like the thick fatty pig skin that she would deep-fry so long that it tasted like rubber? Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z The stuff was like nitric acid, and moreover, in swallowing it one had the sensation of being hit on the back of the head with a rubber club. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z At the stop before Bruce’s house, they would stop playing, wrap a rubber band around each pile, hold the stack under each other’s chin and spit on each other’s deck saying, “Thou shalt not shuffle.” From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z He looked at Katie as he took the rubber band off the money. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z At the end of the hallway was a room full of people, some of them sitting on benches and pulling on knee-high rubber boots, some struggling into their slickers, some buckling on tool belts. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z The overalls of the workers were white, their hands gloved with a pale corpse-coloured rubber. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z Wielding rubber clubs, the Storm Troopers and SS men fanned out. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z The skin at her cheeks was stretched out tight like the rubber skin on a balloon just before it pops open. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z One day I felt the snap like a rubber band that drew my right leg up under me as my left arm moved forward. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z As I lay there, letting Luce, in rubber gloves, do what he had to do, I got a sense of things. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z “How in the...world...did you think up such a...thing as a...rubber bust?” Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z The universe of general relativity is a smooth rubber sheet. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z That shelf would have the tea glass and the tray with paper clips and rubber bands, because literature has not been the focus of this dynasty. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z It’s held together with a fat red rubber band. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z And he eats string and rubber bands and tissues and writing paper and paints and plastic forks. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z Colorful rubber bands woven over metal braces covered her teeth. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z Other times they'd run an obstacle course, or go bungee jumping off a table, tied to broken rubber bands. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z It was huge and dark brown with a wicker seat and back and large metal wheels rimmed in hard black rubber. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Ignatius spent the day in his room napping fitfully and attacking his rubber glove during his frequent, anxious moments of consciousness. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Where it kind of bounced, because of the rubber tip. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z The boots were so ancient that their green rubber was cracked all over, as if covered with spiderwebs. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z Gary says, "Tiny's rubber. You're glue. Whatever you say bounces off him and sticks to you." Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z Happiness had disappeared along with rubber, silk, and many other staples, to be replaced by the wartime synthetic, high morale, for the Duration. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z She pulled rings from behind our ears and rubber spiders from a bowl floating with gardenias. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z If I could keep my head up I had to blow ashore, but I admit the half-Wellington rubber boots I wore got pretty heavy. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z When I have seven words, I bind the cards together with a rubber band she also swiped from work. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z I took that money, put it in an envelope, wrapped it tight with a rubber band, and stuffed it away at the bottom of my bag. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z She tries on a pair of rubber flip-flops that are just the right size. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z I brush my teeth, I pee, I wash my hands, and pull my hair back in a rubber band I brought with me. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z Eight years after our camping trip, I still can’t believe how good I told that tale about Aunt Loma nursing a pig, not to mention the one about sticking a pin in her rubber busts. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z He smells like the Boys and Girls Club—rubber balls, oiled wood, a whiff of mildew, and the tangy sweat of playing. Black Brother, Black Brother 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z I unscrew the rubber safety stopper and prep the tap. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z It was a small room, with a window that overlooked the dwindling, somewhat neglected rubber plantation that Reverend E. John Ipe had bought from a neighbor. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z She rarely goes to mass, but she’s got the required crucifix over the kitchen doorway, the rosary in the dresser drawer, and the stack of dead relatives’ funeral cards, held together with a rubber band. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z She tried to follow me, dragging Laleh, who skidded across the tile floor on her rubber soles, but the officer held up his hand, careful not to touch her. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z Like I was about as useless as a rubber crutch. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z “Naw. I don’t think so. Maybe it’s rubber. Like a lacrosse ball.” Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z She'd clumped it up into a bun and wrapped it with a rubber band. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z We made catapults out of Popsicle sticks, rubber bands, and a plastic spoon. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z Even so, big waves rolled in, and the small rubber boat was tossed around and around in a circle. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z A heap of smoking rubber tires polluted the air. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z I dumped in socks, five pairs of shorts, tops, a nightgown, shampoo, brush, toothpaste, toothbrush, rubber bands for my hair, all the time watching the window. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Venting months of frustration, Seabiscuit burned rubber off the line and sped past the grandstand. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Blanca was raising a Brazilian rubber tree, a shy, squalid little bush whose one attraction was its price: it was sold by the leaf. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Sissy worked in a rubber factory and was very wild as far as men were concerned. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z The package was small, wrapped in brown paper with a rubber band around it. Sarah, Plain and Tall 1985-04-25T00:00:00Z She flattened up against the lockers, then backed around the comer, making sure her rubber soles didn’t squeak. The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z He pulls on rubber gloves and leans over Michael. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z Bobby Gene pointed at a blue rubber circle on the belly of his pig. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z With a screech of rubber, Officer Delinko backed out of the driveway and drove off. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z I had brought a bottle of whisky as my contribution, and afterward we sat in deep comfortable chairs cushioned in foam rubber. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z HERMIONE: You make one more move and your brain will be a frog and your arms will be rubber. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 2016-07-31T00:00:00Z To finish the look, I grabbed some black rubber bracelets to wear on my right arm. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z This morning and last night, dummies made of straw and rubber were dropped from the air behind German lines, and they exploded the minute they hit the ground. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z I knew the five keys with yellow rubber at the top were Lighthouse keys. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z Eliot stood by the lobsters, which stirred one on top of another in their murky tank, their claws bound by yellow rubber bands. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z She’d lost her ponytail rubber band on the trampoline, and her hair had puffed out again like so much dandelion fuzz. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z She found herself standing, and on legs that felt weirdly like rubber mallets, transporting herself up the other aisle and out the doors. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z These have a narrow flexible rubber sole with treads though. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z Tree held the base while Zheegwon carefully made his way up, testing each rung with his rubber boot before putting weight on it. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z I unfasten the wire next to the pine tree, legs like rubber, hardly holding me up. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z It bounces, bumpity-bump, right across the stage like a rubber ball, and falls off the edge. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z Rumfoord didn’t have to look at Billy, because Billy was surrounded by white linen screens on rubber wheels. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z He packed the trays, bottles, glass plates, preservatives, rubber boots and a blanket into the back of his car. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z I saw them on a case strewn with sun visors, hair nets, rubber gloves, a card of false eyelashes, and seized the darkest lenses I could find. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z He was dressed in a long rubber apron and he wore rubber gloves to protect his hands from the formaldehyde. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z It rattled ominously and hopped back and forth on its rubber feet. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z Ivy thought it was called keen-wa or something, and it was always in a giant glass container with one of those rubber lids. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z He’s wearing a single black rubber band around his wrist and he pulls at it a few times before continuing. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z Pencils and papers and rubber bands went flying. Fourth Grade Rats 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z Although she is over two, she still can’t walk fast enough in her red rubber boots to keep up when we go shopping. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z The machine was heavy, maybe eighty pounds, and was suspended from the ceiling by a thick rubber cord. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z The rope near the mouth bound the shark like a rubber band around a fat wrist, separating the head from the rest of the body. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z They have their feet traced onto pieces of paper, and a servant is sent to Bata to bring back rubber slippers for them to wear indoors. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z She takes off rubber gloves and then kisses Mummy and hugs me too long and too hard, like she is trying to hug some deep and secret message. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z Charlotte Lee could collect all the rubber ones she wanted. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z Toomer twisted Red’s neck until the boy’s head was square up against the inside of the rubber truck tire of the wagon. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z The main entrance to the wire chicken coop was guarded as always by two local policemen who looked as if they were made of stone under the rain, with raincoats and rubber boots. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z On Sundays I used to walk to the garage and disguise myself in helmet, goggles, old raincoat and rubber waders and ride all over Derbyshire. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z I floored it and burned rubber and was just picking up speed when suddenly I heard Ring, ring! Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z Other vendors along the street were starting to arrange their wares—rubber sandals, wool shawls, toys, baskets of pomegranates, cinnamon sticks, and cloves. Rickshaw Girl 2007-02-01T00:00:00Z He was already turning the street corner, his rubber boots kicking up snow. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z For a century or so his pod designs had leaned toward the futuristic—plenty of neon and rubber. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z In Holland, and probably everywhere else in Europe, the Germans have issued us monthly ration cards with coupons for food, clothing, kerosene, rubber. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z Kiowa placed these items in his rucksack along with the gray ammunition belt and rubber sandals. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Bigger rose and sent the balls whirling with a sweep of his hand, then looked straight at Gus as the gleaming balls kissed and rebounded from the rubber cushions, zig-zagging across the table’s green cloth. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z In his left hand he carried a long staff with a pencil point at one end and a large rubber eraser at the other. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z Also I designed a pretty fascinating bracelet, where you put a rubber band around your favorite book of poems for a year, and then you take it off and wear it. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z Prosper was amazed that a bit of rubber could be so heavy as he helped Scipio to heave it overboard. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z The man standing in the shade of the rubber trees with coins of sunshine dancing on his body, holding her daughter in his arms, glanced up and caught Ammu’s gaze. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z She stood up on the cement parapet that separated the rubber trees from the driveway, and clapped her hands over Velutha’s eyes. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z He pulled on his gloves, removed the shroud of blankets from Carl Heine, and then, methodically, using angled scissors, cut away the rubber bib overalls, dropping pieces of them in a canvas bin. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z It had one of the rubber masks that are so realistic, with a big black hood over the head and a long black robe. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z We stepped into our rubber overalls, pulled on our rubber gloves, and started winching in crab pots, dumping out crabs, and refilling the bait holders with clams. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z He had before him a relief model of the island made out of three square sections of rubber and with a pointer began to point out its topographical features, doing so with no flourishes. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z Some time ago she made Bubber a little play mandolin out of a cigar box with rubber bands, and that put the idea into her head. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z The boy called Lu stood there like he just got slapped in the face by one of Charlotte Lee's rubber ducks. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z Maria Isabel must use the roots of a large rubber tree to step up to her mother’s tiny wooden hut, which clings to the hillside. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z The marble eyes rolled wide their rubber lids. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z Actually, they are more like rubber bands because they are under enormous tension, something like a million million million million tons. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Tiny pebbles scratched my cheeks and nose, and I choked on the smell of tar and rubber. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z She was carrying a red rubber apron and a curved white enamel bowl. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z There’s nothing in my pockets but lint and some rubber bands that we were using during science. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z Some of them were made of cloth and rubber, and many of them had a funny strip of plastic bristles to fasten them. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z The rubber plant will be on the landing, not much bigger. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z The suit had brown rubber gloves that were attached by gaskets at the cuffs. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z There were small nuts and bolts, and screws, and tiny fragments of metal and rubber. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z For the first time, I’m aware of the tension in my body, a rubber band stretched to its limit. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z The air smelled strongly of dampness and moldy rubber, which seemed to him a pleasant, interesting smell. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z He darted behind the three-sided wooden structure that sheltered waiting passengers from the wind until he heard her wide rubber heels padding down the steps. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z He sat in the floor of the saloon with his feet in the rubber boots propped against the pedestal of the table. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z Even though there had been rubber bands around the claws, I would have never picked it up. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z I braid my hair and tie it with the rubber band around my wrist. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z It was going to hurt like crazy trying to tear the rubber band out, but at least it was staying for now. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z Like Rabbi Koslowe, you had to agree to stand on the rubber mat. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The reason a rubber tree seeps latex when cut is that this is its way of saying to insects and other organisms, “Not tasty. Nothing here for you. Go away.” A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z The little girl clutched her rubber duck and began to cry. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z When the last strip of rubber had rippled to the floor, her father looked at her with cold, flat eyes, and rocked and rocked and rocked. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z In the crowd, women's hands took her away, her large liquid eyes turned for a second toward the man in the rubber boots. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z He wore black rubber snow boots and a bright green cha-pan over a thick sweater and faded corduroy pants. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z She held the rubber tight to her face and breathed fast. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z Kyle let go of the lid and the Dumpster’s rubber cover slammed. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z When you hardly had anything, even a lowly rubber band could fill you with feelings. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z He wears only underwear and a tan rubber cap on his head, which makes him look bald. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Each bark bounced from slope to slope in the foothills like a rubber ball. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z A wide ladder with rubber treads on the steps allows for a swift, easy descent into the bowels of the city. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z She took her baton and started beating the rubber tip of it into the gravel of the driveway. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z Every now and then he took out a tennis ball or a dirty rubber bone but I put it back. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z There’s a half-inflated rubber alligator reclining on a lounge chair looking like it could use a drink. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z She and her brother, Neeley, like other Brooklyn kids, collected rags, paper, metal, rubber, and other junk and hoarded it in locked cellar bins or in boxes hidden under the bed. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z It crinkles as I pull off the rubber band and roll the paper open like a giant map. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z Even the physicians themselves may be in some danger, unless they wear rubber gloves in handling the victims of poisoning. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z All of the disputed territories contain valuable minerals, and some of them yield important vegetable products such as rubber which in colder climates it is necessary to synthesize by comparatively expensive methods. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z She wore a blue smock and rubber shoes, but when she was around him Jaime was convinced he heard the tinkle of the glass beads she used to wear. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z The vendor handed me the boots—black rubber with zigzag soles, just like Papito’s—and I was the happiest girl in the universe. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z With his borrowed key, he opened the Pipeworks door, and they hurried past the yellow slickers on their hooks and the lines of rubber boots. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z My bottom thumps against the saddle like one of those rubber balls tied to a wooden paddle. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z Everyone but Edwin wore heavy jackets and tall rubber boots. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z The ones that had drifted too far he reached with the small paddle for the rubber dinghy. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z That’s where people would hold someone down and put a rubber tire over his torso, pinning his arms. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z But she was still clearheaded enough to hiss down to Joe: “Did you say you had string and rubber bands and Lego? And smoke bombs? I really want those smoke bombs! I’ve got a plan!” The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z In 1965, people weren’t sure whether pulling on a rubber cord was going to help the heart any or not; in fact, even the astronauts weren’t in agreement on the importance of physical conditioning. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z I have to get up to use the tin can under my bed, which, to be on the safe side, has a rubber mat underneath in case of leaks. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z He read the instructions that were attached to it by a rubber band. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z It was a device that looked like an inverted umbrella with a good-sized catchment pouch and a connecting rubber tube. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z Three red rubber bands in varying sizes and widths. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z He would plant a disease in my brain that would leave me wearing a strait- jacket in a rubber room for the rest of my life. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z If we happened to somehow distinguish ourselves, we quickly snapped back into place, like rubber bands. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z It had high-rise handlebars with black rubber grips and its famous banana seat. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z Aunt Aggie says, Twelve years ago that child died and she still keeps the rubber sheet. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z She gets up and shambles away on swollen feet, old socks poking through the holes in her rubber boots, glancing back over her shoulder. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z He would flog her to death with a rubber truncheon. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z It involved him being tied with all of his limbs, like his arms and his legs, onto the frame of his bed with the rubber tubing. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Amar runs a hand over his black hair, tying it back with a rubber band. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z Jody pulled back the rubbers of the sling and advanced cautiously. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z The men speculated it must have belonged to one of the rubber gatherers who had been out exploring the area. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z He was downcast and burdened with self-approach when he stepped without noise from the colonel’s office on his rubber- soled and rubber-heeled brown shoes. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z “Béene, I spent many years working for the Belgians in the rubber plantation at Coquilhatville, and I saw rich men there. They were always unhappy and had very few children.” The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z The emergency guys already had their rubber gloves on when they got to the dude. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z I had never seen blue rubber testicles before, but I knew right away where they had come from. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z “It was easy. You just have to be careful how you tie the rubber bands.” A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z At that moment the first rock—and it was not rubber or soft foam plastic—struck him in the inguinal region. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z “Not care,” says Leda, sucking the rubber loud and furious. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z No one else said anything either, and the quiet stretched like a rubber band, long and quivering. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z He felt his lip split and tatter over his teeth, but his skin seemed thickened and dull, as though he were encased in heavy rubber. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z If you twang a rubber band it will make one pitch, if you stretch it so that it is longer and tighter, the pitch of the note will have changed. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z Mam tells him he’s going to destroy the shoes altogether but he pounds away with the hammer, driving the nails through the rubber pieces and into the shoes. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z The rubber will cool as you go higher. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z I was happier on the lawns because I had on shoes from England with rubber nobs on the soles that bit into the soft ground. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z There's also this lady named Charlotte Lee who holds the record for owning the most rubber ducks. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z “No two ways about it,” Dessie said, and she popped the rubber band off the deck of cards to settle them down for a nice long game of bid whist. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z Then Mama came in, her rubber slippers making slap- slap sounds on the marble floor. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z “She went to the library early,” said Andrew Peckleman, who was rolling a rubber barrel between tables to collect people’s breakfast trash. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z Assuming this had something to do with his headless rubber haddock, Harry proceeded gloomily to the teacher’s desk. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z Seeing what was happening had somehow made it worse, as if the rubber was fusing with her flesh. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z There Call, his hands in heavy rubber gloves, would cull, using a culling hammer. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Looking at it made me smell rubber all over again. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z Also, the rubber bands still popped off in the middle of the night. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z He was delegating the red rubber bands to Laney when his mom called to him from the kitchen. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z Momma’s wearing her scrubs, the ones with the rubber ducks on them. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z He sucked on his nummer, the rubber pacifier his mother had just begun to tell him that he was getting too old for. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z She can’t tell if Terry’s outfit is a uniform or if it’s just so boring that it looks like one: black pants, clunky black shoes with rubber soles, a matronly peach-colored T-shirt. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z Annabeth produced a red rubber ball the size of a grapefruit. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z She signs them with things like, “Yours till Niagara Falls,” “Yours till the cookie crumbles,” or “Yours till the sea wears rubber pants to keep its bottom dry.” Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z We continued to haul and lay out hose for three hours, until every row had a black rubber stripe running down it. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z His hands were covered with three layers of rubber and then smeared with blood and hot agent. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Frantig was put in an isolation room, with access restricted to doctors and nurses wearing rubber gloves, gowns, and surgical masks. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z I held my bundle closer to my chest as I plodded through the mud, which sucked at my rubber sandals. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z “I’m using paper clips to make the chains for the swings, and I’m going to cut pieces of rubber tire for the seats.” When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z As she pulled at my belt, I grabbed her hands and whispered, "Ah. I want to. But I don't have a rubber." When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z The raw rims of the wheels sitting in a stiff gray sludge of melted rubber, in blackened rings of wire. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z The woman called Floramundi hugged a really good-looking high school girl who was holding a rubber Minnie Mouse mask. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z He flicks his rubber band, nods once, and lets it go. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z Lana Lee started snapping a rubber band around the pile of bills and making little piles of nickels that she was taking out of the cash register. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Carol says her mother wears rubber gloves while washing the dishes. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z The appropriate answer, as far as she was concerned, was "tired," because the overly cheery instructor forced us to lie down on sticky rubber mats for twenty minutes after "lunchtime picture book." Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z It had stretched very far, so far that she was afraid that when the plane touched down, the rubber band would break, and a part of her life would be over. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z Instead, they were crammed in a tiny apartment that smelled of burning rubber and foot odor. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z Mom glanced at the clock on the stove, then she put down the phone and pulled the ponytail rubber band out of her own hair. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z May was on the other side of the porch running clothes through the rubber rollers on the wringer washing machine. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z I heard it buzz down the hall and then some one coming on rubber soles along the hall. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z The fat around his neck bulged out all around the top of his collar like a rubber ring. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z “Okay, guys, I want you all to take one piece from each box,” he said as he produced a pair of rubber gloves from the pocket of his lab jacket and pulled them on. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z The wringer is two rubber rollers, the color of pale flesh, that revolve around and around, the clothes squeezing in between them, water and suds squooshing out like juice. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z Quite a few people showed up for the cleanup, including the Great Lake-loving Ms. Banks, who managed to look hot in rubber boots and a baggy fleece jacket. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z There were several pads of lined paper and a bundle of sharpened pencils held together with a rubber band. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z Multiply by two and you stretch the number line by a factor of two; divide by two and you relax the rubber band by a factor of two, undoing the multiplication. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z After returning inside, he stoked the fire, then pulled on his rubber boots and his rain slicker. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z Farmers come at me but they’re always slow in their rubber boots and even if they jump on a bicycle to chase me I jump over walls where they can’t take a bike. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z She stood at the sink in her robe, Mamou’s bright pink rubber gloves pulled up to her elbows. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z Richard Parker’s tongue, the size and colour of a rubber hot- water bottle, retreated and his mouth closed. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z “Your friend, he was badly—very badly—injured, you understand. He had rubber tubes coming out of him everywhere. At first—” He cleared his throat. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z Doc was sitting on the ground pulling off his rubber boots. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Seems like some genius would’ve figured out how to make pencils out of rubber or something a little softer, even though that’s probably a silly thing to even think. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z As we approached the lowest point in the grove, the trees began to look scorched; they smelled like smoke and rubber. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Dr. Ashworth secures a mouth prop over me, a hard rubber tool that disables me from closing my mouth. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z She found a box of latex rubber surgical gloves and a plastic shaker full of baby powder. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z There were plants like green rubber roses in clay pots, but they weren’t rubber. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z First there came mimeographed letters of commendation, then real letters signed by the Secretary of the Treasury, and not with a rubber stamp either. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z “Why did you walk around all day with rubber balls in your hands ?” “Because rubber balls—” said Orr. “—are better than crab apples ?” Orr sniggered as he shook his head. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z “My father thinks the Congo is just lagging behind and he can help bring it up to snuff. Which is crazy. It’s like he’s trying to put rubber tires on a horse.” The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z I swear to God, that kid should wear a protective rubber bumper and possibly water wings. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z “Maybe it didn’t stick very well, and then Rocket started playing with it—you know how he’s always carrying ponytail rubber bands away when Mom or I drop them on the floor?” The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z The guys at the next table all have rubber plugs in their earlobes and studs in their eyebrows and are joking around with each other like otters. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z And the monkey had the chamber open—a glass door on heavy hinges, and he was reaching inside—and there was the lock of hair: held between rubber pads in a metal clasp! The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Lloyd: Would rather have a rubber nose or a plastic nose? Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z The side window was shattered, and a second point broke the rubber of the useless tire. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z I introduced Zion to Josephine and Henry, shot a rubber snake at the shooting range, and even stuck my face through a wooden painting of a cactus so Zion could take a picture. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z Marie-Laure can hear the aquaria bubble and the woman inhale and the rubber stoppers on the stool legs beneath her squeak as she shifts. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z He quickly tore off the rubber band and turned to page one. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z Spacetime is usually explained by asking you to imagine something flat but pliant–a mattress, say, or a sheet of stretched rubber–on which is resting a heavy round object, such as an iron ball. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z She then tried to get work at a jam factory, but she couldn’t, so she went to a rubber factory instead. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z Everything smells of rubber tires and new vinyl. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z Taryn jumped harder and higher, somersaulting and flipping, sending Ivy’s body bouncing around the trampoline like a rubber ball. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z He made me sit down, and he tied the string of the new rubber apron tightly around my neck, and combed up my bush of hair. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z She wears a pair of nicely faded jeans, brown leather boots with yellow laces and thick rubber soles. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Punching Aarfy was like sinking his fists into a limp sack of inflated rubber. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z It was full of odds and ends he thought would come in handy for an adventure—rubber bands, a compass, granola bars, coins, a squirt gun, a magnifying glass, plastic handcuffs, string, a whistle. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z The room smells of old cigarette smoke, old rubber, the worn intimacy of cloth too long against flesh. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z “In a second, Duke. Look. There’s something jiggly in the water. It’s like a flat rubber pull toy made out of clear gunk! It even has all sorts of strings to play with.” Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z This inventor, who gave his initials as R. T. E., envisioned a tower four thousand feet tall from which he proposed to hang a two-thousand-foot cable of “best rubber.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z The rubber was old and rotting and the balloon burst almost at once, and I was heartbroken. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z Inside under the deck was a space that held some rolled sails and what looked to be a two man rubber raft rolled and tied with bungee cords. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z The old man sat on a stool by the front door with a red rubber fly swatter in his right hand, watching them. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z I obediently slid the rubber band out of my hair and shook it out around me. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z At that moment Lee came from the shed leading the Bacons’ horse hitched to the high spindly rig with rubber tires. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Briefly, she considered undoing her hair, but she didn’t want to lose her rubber band. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z Tangles of rubber tubing sprouted out of the tank. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z Once I’m squared away, I clutch the gray rubber pads on the arms and shove it forward until my elbows are extended, which turns out to be exactly one floor tile. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z I plugged the right side of my nose and tried real hard to blow the smell of rubber out of the left side. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z It’s a difficult concept to grasp, but the easiest way to approach space-time is through an analogy: space and time are like a gigantic rubber sheet. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z And the smell of a cunning Englishman ghost, sickled to a rubber tree, asking courteously for a cigar. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z She wished she’d paid more attention in health class, when that nurse had come in with a rubber dummy and showed how to do that artificial perspiration stuff. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z One unusual tip tonight—a mostly full bottle of whiskey given in exchange for a handful of rubbers, from a guy who was as close to falling-down drunk as I’d ever seen. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z The Dancing Fan was still dancing, its rubber feet beating out the same syncopated Persian rhythm I’d been listening to all night, but that wasn’t what woke me. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z It will be a great day for America, incidentally, when we begin to eat bread again, instead of the blasphemous and tasteless foam rubber that we have substituted for it. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z “Put these on,” he said, holding out a pair of knee- high rubber boots.“Tennis shoes aren’t much good up here except around camp.” Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z Cole was still pulling on the second rubber boot when Edwin headed out. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z She wondered how many times his hands in rubber gloves, impersonal and omnipotent, had set some child on its feet. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z The rubber band was small but thick and had a good, tight fit. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z He lay on top of orange peels, coffee grounds, rancid bacon, and rubber tires. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z We sit together late into the night with that rubber brain. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z We learn to sit up straight, eyes front, faces blank, both feet on the floor, listening to the whack of rubber on cringing flesh. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z He also brought back sacks of gypsum, and Mom mixed it with water to make Venus de Milo sculptures from a rubber cast she ordered through the mail. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z Saucepan reaches over and gives a rubber chicken a few squeaks. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z Half-Wellington rubber boots with cork inner soles kept my feet warm and dry. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z The class was seated on little rubber mats around a glass case within which was a mummy case within which was the mummy they were talking about. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z She’s back at the sink, stretching a black rubber hose from the faucet to the dishwasher. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z Mrs. Smeath in metamorphosis, from frame to frame, naked, exposed and desecrated, along with the maroon velvet chesterfield, the sacred rubber plant, the angels of God. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z “What a curious idea,” said the Mathemagician, raising his staff over his head and scrubbing the rubber end back and forth several times on the ceiling. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z “Well, technically, I guess it’s Fred’s. I don’t, you know, chase rubber balls. Not as a rule.” Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z Likewise, multiplying by one-half is like relaxing the rubber band a bit: the tick mark at two is now at one, and the tick mark at three winds up at one and a half. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z She didn’t even take time to brush the gray rubber powder from her hair bow. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z The armored personnel carriers dropped everyone off near an old rubber plantation. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z He puts a small, limp piece of rubber on the nozzle. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z It’s a real noise, a gritty noise, not the squeak or patter of rubber. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z I ran home and grabbed Vincent’s chess set, which was bound in a cardboard box with rubber bands. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z He wore overalls and rubber boots that covered half his legs. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z I thought about the rubber rat and the tiny birds that had suddenly come alive when the wind blew. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z They heard strange music as they drew near the shack, like somebody playing a rubber band while clacking castanets. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z He jumped, blinking in surprise at the touch of yellow rubber. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z He flicks his rubber band as his eyes scan my body, mentally critiquing my lack of physical fortitude. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z “The rubber sole helps you grip the terrain.” Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z That seemed like a promising sign, but I began to worry that instead of pushing my front teeth in, the rubber band might be pulling my back teeth forward. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z Grace wheedled, winding a rubber band around the end of the braid. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z His feet were blocks of cement, his legs were rubber bands, and his mouth was clenched so tightly that he was breathing only through his nose—but it wasn’t breathing, really. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z I bought rubber bands and wrapped each hundred and thousand. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z “The corps is a body,” he explains, twirling a length of rubber hose so that its tip whirs inches from a boy’s nose. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z She scooped Emma’s hair back and wrapped the rubber band around it. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z They both smelled like burned rubber, so I assumed they must be new. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z The only sure way to get a cow to stand is to take a piece of rubber and tie it over its nose and mouth. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z Off Bastian waddles, rubber hose around his neck, pistol swinging at his side. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z Mainly to get out of Aunt Loma’s way before she could catch me alone and fuss about the rubber busts and all, I hurried to the pasture right after dinner. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z I started imagining the shoe pushing all the way through, rubber hitting cement. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z I took a seat at my desk and surveyed the landscape—a small village of nail polish bottles, colored pencils, a rubber finger-puppet beast, and a hill of assorted notepads. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z Monday, May 27,1935 As the day of Nat’s interview approaches, my mother behaves as if her nerves have rotted and fallen apart like old rubber bands. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z The rubber tires sang over the flat asphalt. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z I look down the aisle: A rubber mat runs along the center, with rows of three navy-blue cloth-covered seats on either side. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z So they found a friendly civilian technician and he twisted a rubber band around their arms, and they watched while he filled some tubes with their blood. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Shadow rolled over on the foam rubber, finding new places that hurt as he rolled, hoping that he had not woken fully and relieved to find sleep was enfolding him once more. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z Even weirder, her hands and arms up to her elbows were covered by bright yellow rubber gloves—the kind my mom used to wear when she scrubbed the bathroom or did the dishes. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z Roy Lee said he’d only been in there one time to get change for a dollar and they had given him four rubbers instead. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z She pulled the cover back and told me to get up and hold him while she put rubber sheets on my bed. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z The house settled under a quiet spell, broken only by the rubber marshmallow soles of Ms. Byrd’s hospital shoes padding up the stairs, followed by the creaking of Clayton’s bedroom door being pushed open. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z It means, more or less, “people of the land of rubber.” 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Water lapped at the rubber tips of her boots. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z I left the shop wearing a pair of rubber boots so large my sneakers fit inside and so heavy it was difficult to keep up with my begrudging guide. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z They were the initials of a rubber gatherer, and it marked his territory. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z One of his friends held a broomstick dangling a rubber bat. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Especially idiots who wear superhero costumes that don’t fit and rubber masks that only have one small hole to breathe through. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z McCormick opened his backpack and fished out rubber gloves, a paper surgical gown, a paper surgical mask, and paper boots to cover his shoes, to keep them from becoming wet with blood. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The way it would work was this: when we landed in the Pacific, we would open our side hatch, and the Navy frogmen would throw in three rubber suits to us. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z I was playing in a large high school auditorium that echoed with phlegmy coughs and the squeaky rubber knobs of chair legs sliding across freshly waxed wooden floors. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z I thought either Joan must be crazy—wearing rubber boots to work—or she must be trying to see how crazy I was, believing all that. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z “You and Georgie must have rubber bones or something,” she said. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z Amy was fretting because her lessons were not learned, and she couldn’t find her rubbers. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z He wore black clothing and rubber sandals and a gray ammunition belt. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z The tape stuck to his rubber gloves, and he couldn’t get it off. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z We chose Bikoki expecting to find people Anatole knew here, former friends and employers in the rubber trade, but most are dead now or have left the country. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z His mouth slackened like a wet, boingy rubber band, and before he could do anything about it, his head teetered, tottered. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z Celia remembers the rumors about Rogelio, how he sent off to Chicago for a carton of little rubber tips for his penis that made women crazy with pleasure. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z On the way, Sophie Mol learned to recognize the first whiff of the approaching stench of unprocessed rubber and to clamp her nostrils shut until long after the truck carrying it had driven past. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z I’ve got these rubber models in my office with all the reproductive organs of both sexes that I keep locked up in separate cabinets to avoid a scandal. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z Each woman swallowed a rubber tube so that doctors could test her stomach acids, and her reflexes were tested by electric shocks applied to her arms. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z Gray squirrels streaked down mottled trunks of rubber trees that slanted towards the sun. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Next I'll just rip apart these sock monkeys and pour the stuffing into this tall rubber boot. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z I read in a book that they cut off the workers’ hands if they hadn’t collected enough rubber by the end of the day. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z And now where you have roads of asphalt for the passage of rubber tires, then the roads were of crushed stone for the passage of oxen, and mule teams, and horse-drawn wagons. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z A black rubber bucket tied to a long rope lay beside it. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z On a previous visit to the Amazon I had seen runnels just like these on a rubber tree in an abandoned plantation. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Liquid putrefaction like drowned things floating like pale rubber flabbily filled getting the odor of honeysuckle all mixed up. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z He hears his mother’s rhythmic prayers from behind her closed door, and he loses himself in her voice and the soft thud of the rubber ball against the wall. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z Even though my feet are safe from getting wet in my tall rubber boots, I can still sense the cold surge. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z But who got time to use those little rubber bands? Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z The pump was in the kitchen, with a rubber hose attached. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z The verb vulcanize means “to strengthen a material such as rubber by combining it with sulfur and then applying heat and pressure.” The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Jody walked to school dressed in a slicker and short rubber boots. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z I slip the small rubber ring off the inside of the handle. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z A dozen or so adults were among the pews, several of them bearing pairs of small-size rubbers, soles up, in their laps. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z He took the rubber band from a packet of brown envelopes, opened one, and pulled out a photograph. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z A hole had grown on the sole of one shoe where the rubber had worn away. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z Goggles were a necessity, and a rubber apron, but even so it was like standing for eight hours a day under a lukewarm blood-shower. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z I move up behind her, take the rubber band from her hand, and tie back her hair for her. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z We sang along, pointing as she did with our sharpened pencils, rubber end out. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z He’s wearing a smile look like it’s made out a rubber. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z I tried to pry the belt loose from the wheels, but it was made of heavy, stiff rubber, very tight. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z A sharp, acrid scent, like overheated rubber or charred leaves. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z Despite the fog and violent waves rocking their rubber boat, they somehow managed to row their way to the shore. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z “Did you know that you can hold a crocodile’s jaws closed with a rubber band?” Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z The rooms were acrawl with the small cleaning animals, all rubber and metal. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z He's wearing goggles, a gown, and rubber gloves. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z It was a good slingshot, with store-bought rubbers, but while Jody had often shot at birds, he had never hit one. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z A skyblue Plymouth, with the sun in its tailfins, sped past young rice fields and old rubber trees on its way to Cochin. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z “Tell me all about it. Are limes the fashion now? It used to be pricking bits of rubber to make balls.” Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z They slosh through the culverts in their rubber boots and swing from trees and from the lower beams of the bridge. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z But Lee’s brain gave and repelled like rubber. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Why was she wearing her rubber slippers all the way from Enugu? Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z He fires a marble with a rubber band. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z Her rubber slippers never made a sound on the stairs, but I knew she went downstairs when I heard the dining room door open. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z He poured a small amount of water from the glass into the empty vial and replaced the rubber stopper. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z Mr. Weasley had a hurried discussion with Basil; they joined the queue, and were able to take an old rubber tire back to Stoatshead Hill before the sun had really risen. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z She stands up, leans over long enough to plant a kiss on my forehead, and disappears into the hallway, her rubber soles squeaking on the tiled floor. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z The mask was a silicone rubber North respirator mask with a Lexan faceplate, for good visibility, and the purple filters were the kind that stop a virus. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z He lets the rubber band snap against his wrist. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z Then I curled the two ends outward, so when the coat hanger was around my head, the ends angled away from my face and formed hooks to hold the rubber band in place. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z And he had a guardian angel—a beautiful fairy in a yellow rubber raft. I Survived Hurricane Katrina, 2005 2011-04-01T00:00:00Z But when she tried to put the rubber nipple in Cari’s mouth, the baby spat it out. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z Perhaps she was dislodging a curl of rubber band from inside her cheek, or was she really smiling? Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z It was just a darkness beyond the swamp, at the heart of the abandoned rubber estate, from which the sound of crickets swelled. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z I look down at my phone, the bejeweled rubber case, the scratches on the glass surface, the screensaver of David and me—a selfie of us on a hike not far from here. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z Luckily, the machine had a rubber strip around its base and every time I bumped into a baseboard, the machine bounced back, giving me a slight jolt in protest. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z He spent most of his time with Samantha, playing fetch with the rubber toy. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z Imagine that the number line is a rubber band with tick marks on it. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z I roll over, reaching for the bed warmer's rubber handle to pull it closer, but it's cold. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z This analogy explains the orbits of the planets; Earth is simply rolling around in the dimple that the sun makes in the rubber sheet. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z One missal held together with a rubber band. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Hal sprays the tire with soapy water to locate the bubbly leak, splotches on some rubber cement, sticks in a plug, and charges them fifty bucks. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z There was a big hole in the recently whitewashed wall, and a tangle of rubber tubes and pipes was sticking out of it. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z Then she came back and put my favorite toy—a rubber monkey—a few inches from my head. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z She was carefully made up, heavy mascara on her eyelashes, rouge on the bones of her cheeks, over which the skin was stretched like a rubber glove pulled tight. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z The train station smelled like roasting pistachios from the old Turkish merchant outside, and burnt rubber from the train braking. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z They see him walking to Harvard Yard in a pair of threadbare trousers, a fringed suede jacket, and rubber flip-flops. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z I feel two rubber bullets hit him in the shoulder. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z Jaax and Haines put on rubber gloves, and the support team taped the gloves to the sleeves of the suits while they held their arms out straight. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Then, in the same motion, they both pulled black rubber gas masks on over their faces. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z A child’s rubber slippers lay pigeon-toed in the bright parallelogram of barred sunlight on the floor. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z He told me that after the war he wanted to go to the Dutch East Indies and live on a rubber plantation. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z Then he bent down and placed a range ball on top of the rubber nipple sticking up from his practice tee. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z It smelled like...it smelled like...a combination of burnt flowers and burnt rubber. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z Many of the citizens gathered there wore overcoats, shoe rubbers, and woolen scarfs, having elected not to leave these things in the cloakroom: there’d been a rush to find a place to sit. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z We pulled over to the curb, and she handed me a rubber mask with a round black nose and large ears. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z It looked like a sagging face of black rubber, with wide glass portholes like eyes that were frozen in shock, and a droopy snout that ended in a perforated canister. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z We watch him burn rubber as he takes off down the parking lot. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z “You go down to the drugstore, and you pick up a couple packs of rubbers.” X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z By the time I was done with all that grating, my right arm felt like rubber. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z He smiles quick up at me, then hunches back over an elaborate machine made of rocks, marbles, sticks and rubber bands. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z He used to work in the garden every weekend, kneeling on a green rubber pad, obsessively inspecting every leaf as if he were manicuring fingernails. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z Moss pulled on the rubber gloves above the sink and began to scour one of the pots that sat next to the sink. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z He moved to a back corner, beneath what looked like a kind of rubber plant, and pointed out a birdcage, which I hadn’t seen before. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z The doctor placed the rubber mask over her face and turned a dial and I watched Catherine breathing deeply and rapidly. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z “Well,” she says, “I’ve always got those old show photos,” kind of kicking the coffee table, and she takes her hair out of a rubber band and repositions it. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z I asked, and gunned the engine as we burned rubber onto the road. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z She couldn’t speak, not with the rubber in her mouth. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z He then had me sit on the edge of the examination table, and he tapped my knees with a flat-nosed rubber hammer. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z He was holding one of Robin’s rubber duckies. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z My father had a present for me: a half ration of bread, bartered for something he had found at the depot, a piece of rubber that could be used to repair a shoe. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z But I swear that girl burned rubber getting back to her seat when she was through. Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Thinking that the small red rubber rings were objects of witchcraft he put them in his pocket so that Pilar Ternera could have a look at them. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z “Here are the accounts. Every year has a rubber band around it. I’ve been over it. It’s complete.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z The smell of burned rubber and smoke curled my stomach as we crouched down, and I was concerned the trail of sparks in front of us would turn into a wall of flame. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z Inside was a hard rubber ring with a slippery center. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z Some filled tubes, others inserted rubber stoppers, sealed tubes, or stacked them inside a walk-in incubator where they stayed until being packaged for shipping. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z Among the whistles on colorful coiled plastic key chains, small blue rubber footballs, Frisbees, yo-yos, bubbles, and glow jewelry, I saw green and red and blue glitter pens. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z She put the whole works in the toe of a stocking, pushed the wad into a rubber overshoe, and stood it with its fellow in the back of her closet. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z We pulled our heads apart and Colin shoved the rubber stopper back in. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z Inside the envelope were a stack of cards, a bunch of rubber stamps, an ink pad, and a sheet of three-ring-binder paper filled with a fifth grader’s sloppy handwriting. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z The factory made a few rubber toys as a blind. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Leo pulled out a can of kerosene and a rubber tube and lashed them to the thirsty new engine that the orb was helping him assemble. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z Tess smiled too, flashing all the colorful rubber bands in her mouth. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z Mi perrito is a chihuahua — Smaller than a cat, Bigger than a rubber mouse. Neighborhood Odes 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z That’s a stainless steel cylinder that resembles a top-loading washing machine with dozens of black rubber fingers projecting from the sides. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z He draped die towel around my shoulders, over my rubber apron, and began again Vaselining my hair. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z At night, when she took off her bun, she allowed her grandchildren to plait her remaining hair into a tight, oiled, gray rat’s tail with a rubber band at the end. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Rasheed took him to the shop, let him crawl around under his crowded workbench, play with old rubber soles and spare scraps of leather. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z If such horrors can happen to classrooms of kindergartners, little first graders with little pink rubber boots and sweet butterfly backpacks, there is no hope. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z How many black people died harvesting rubber in the Congo? Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z Johnson put on a surgical scrub suit and rubber gloves, and carried the box into the Level 3 staging area of the Ebola suite, where he opened the box, revealing a mass of foam peanuts. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “You didn’t know how persuasive Jeanine was—” Something inside me snaps like a brittle rubber band. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z Which would be more impressive if it didn’t have rubber leg caps, making it land with a squeak rather than a bang. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z Thanks to rubber cement and oil paint, our toilet could quickly be repaired. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z I have named this one Torontodalisque: Homage to Ingres, because of the pose, and the rubber plant like a fan behind her. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z Could one really “be there” and stand on the rubber mat? Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z If you have rubber tires on your shoes you’re all alone with your brother and you have to fight your own battles. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z The girl’s face looked like a rubber doll someone had left in the sun. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z Probably it was taking them a long time to get all those pink rubber bands out of Coach Hedge’s hair. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z The young man had put his glass down, just in front of his rubber boots, and leaned toward them, his elbows on his knees, as if he was about to confess something. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z Like last night when his mom said she didn’t have money for new sneakers as she dabbed superglue on his current pair where the rubber was pulling away at the bottom. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z I lie on the black rubber cot and close my eyes, trying to stave off the nausea. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z “I don’t want a ‘rubber stamp’ type of wife,” he told her a few weeks later. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z My legs feel like rubber, and I’m on the verge of totally freaking out. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z The door bounced off the rubber doorstop on the wall and hit Mr. McNamara in the face. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z Kiowa picked up the rubber sandals, clapping off the dirt, then bent down to search the body. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z But there they were, just above the cleaning supplies—a pair of bright pink rubber gloves dangling amid a sea of traditional yellow ones. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z Jennifer bounced the small rubber ball and scooped up five jacks. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z Mustang left the comer in her car, burning rubber, promising to bring her new boyfriend back to kill Mike. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z As the camaradas paddled down the smooth river, they could see the surrounding forest peppered with Brazil’s famous rubber trees, which ranchers harvested for a milky-white sap called latex. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z The whole room smelled like the rubber from the eraser and I was winking and blinking my left eye because it felt like something had poked the back of my eyeball. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z True to form, I had forgotten my rubber boots, and the path was a rapidly deepening ribbon of mud. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z She sat up on her bed and looked out at the rubber trees. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Hayden was discreetly driven from the park in one of the fair’s innovative English ambulances with quiet rubber tires and placed in a sanitarium for a period of enforced rest. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Chairs lined the walls, divided evenly by magazine tables, and there was the usual rubber tree expiring in the corner. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z They put on latex rubber gloves, pulling them over the space-suit gloves. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z I saw him before he died: his body was all swollen, very much like mine, with bloodless skin that looked like white rubber. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z I get so excited I let go of the balloons—about a zillion red, yellow, blue, purple, and green rubber globes bobble all over the ceiling. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z She walked over to the table and lifted from it a green-and-white shoe box, its cover held down with a rubber band. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z They drew water from a feeder creek and warmed themselves at a slash pile kept burning by his children—girls in rubber boots, including Hatsue—who dragged branches and brought armfuls of brush to it. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z Felix felt like the world’s strongest rubber band was squeezing his head. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z Most of the huge rubber tires were punctured and grotesquely twisted on their axles. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z Chacko took the shortcut through the tilting rubber trees so that he would have to walk only a very short stretch down the main road to Comrade K. N. M. Pillai’s house. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z The kitchen door had opened, and there stood Harry’s aunt, wearing rubber gloves and a housecoat over her nightdress, clearly halfway through her usual pre-bedtime wipe-down of all the kitchen surfaces. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z A few took the precaution of zipping into rubber suits before wiggling in, but most just wore street clothes. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Freddie took an elbow to the back of the head that turned his legs to rubber. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z The woman says tell your aunt I’d like that rubber sheet back for the next child. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z Horace thought of her now, gray and washed, the needles in her throat and the rubber formalin tubes hanging down from the ceiling. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z He was tapping the rubber mat with his gold ring and considering the problem when the door opened and Mack came in. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z He stands there, trying to pull off the knee-high black rubber boots from his new job. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z When she returned, she wore rubber boots and an old raincoat, and she carried a bucket of buttermilk and a small wooden paddle. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z Whenever frogmen teams went in ahead of an invasion, one or two Navajos with radios were with them in their rubber boats. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z He wore knee-high rubber boots, a rust-colored turtleneck Mama had knitted him, and a black skipper’s hat. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z His expression was as gruff as ever, but he still had one pink rubber band stuck in his hair from the prankster dwarfs in Bologna. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z We wear long wool coats with tie belts, the collars turned up to look like those of movie stars, and rubber boots with the tops folded down and men’s work socks inside. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z He cracked necks, straightened spines, and made custom arch supports out of foam rubber. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Holly cranked open the heavy door, the rubber seal yielding with a hiss. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z A shower had been improvised from a rubber hose and a bucket filled with water heated by the kitchen staff. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z Through the gaps in rubber inner tubes and children, Werfel saw his beloved Skardebek darting down toward him, her little black eyes fixed on his eyes. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z Matthew dribbled a rubber basketball in the hallway that led to the dining room and shot repeatedly at an imaginary goal above the door. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z “Probably fake as a rubber glove,” answered the soldier. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z He saw how pitilessly the layers of rubber and canvas held together the poor body that should be rotting away. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z The doctor held a rubber mask attached to a tube in one hand. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z I want ancient tomes that I have to handle with forceps and rubber gloves. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z He did not ask my name nor I his, but I had seen his quick eyes go to the firearms in their rubber slings, to the fishing rods pinioned against the wall. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z But no doors slammed, no carpets took the soft tread of rubber heels. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z Mrs. Arable found a baby’s nursing bottle and a rubber nipple. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z So I got some larger rubber bands and wore them around my whole head, pressing against my front teeth. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z He stretches the rubber band taut between his thumb and index finger. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z I dig into the tool drawer again and find a rubber band. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z I tried to imagine what it would be like if I were Ee Gee, the famous editor, in an office full of potted rubber plants and African violets my secretary had to water each morning. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z He watched as Mrs. Sen laughed and chatted, when it was her turn in line, with a man with a bright red face and yellow teeth, dressed in a black rubber apron. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z Maybe it jumps from one memory to the next, bouncing like a rubber ball. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z That is like putting your hands on the south pole and stretching a rubber cover on the sphere away from the south pole and toward the north pole. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z The clerk looked so lonely, I bought a rubber rat. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z She shows me the rubber gloves and a spray thing attached to the water up. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z I bet his lips looked like a giant rubber band before they snapped away from that glass! The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z The rubber monster mask completely covered the speaker’s head, but the voice was familiar; and besides, the sixth-grade boys were the only ones who called April, February. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z I felt Zu’s rubber glove on my arm and didn’t need to look at her face to know what kind of expression I would find there. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z “Oh, we always wear rubber gloves,” Beatrice said reassuringly, “and eye goggles, too.” Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z There were still hidden in his room several accessories which he had once used: a rubber glove, a piece of fabric from a silk umbrella, ajar of Noxzema. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z They could all hear voices and doors as people came downstairs, and Jam felt the familiar vibrations of her parents’ footsteps, even through the rubber of the training room floor. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z My hands grip the rope and the wet rubber. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z He looked fourteen, maybe fifteen, and had long, glossy black hair pulled back with a rubber band at the nape of his neck. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z I could say my knees went to rubber. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z They had hidden the rubber nose outside the garden and it took them some time to get it ready for Rowsby Woof. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z I looked at Carmen through my rubber mask and tugged at her dress to get her attention. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z Each noise bounces around the walls of my head like a rubber ball. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z The bed, on the side of the room, was made of cement, with a rubber mattress atop it. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z She sighed, pulled her hair back into a ponytail, and snapped a rubber band around it. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z He pulled off his rubber gloves and dropped them into the bin. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z After about ten seconds of nothing but the sound of rubber on asphalt, Coach finally said, "You did good Saturday, kid," the silver of the baton gleaming in the sun. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z The riot police shot rubber bullets, hurled tear gas, beat people with batons. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z All I can hear is the scrape of Hannah’s broom and the taps of Lena’s rubber hammer as she fastens the lids in place. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z The lump was rubber, once part of a tractor tire, maybe. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z I say, happy to see the rubber band did the trick. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z It was the smooth swoosh of metal and rubber on the Trans-Canada, tied like a ribbon of tar over the bush. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z Consider a flat, flexible, lined two-dimensional surface, like a piece of graph paper made of rubber. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z He takes the sketchpad from me, slips a pencil from the rubber band. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z He yanked off his flexible rubber arm and waved it overhead like a giant bug antenna. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z It looked like a train, and it had five cars with rubber wheels because it didn’t run on a track. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z His legs were soft rubber and a fire was raging in the lower part of his belly. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z He put on rubber gloves to protect the stitches. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z The alley was littered with crumpled papers and dented hubcaps, with old rubber tires and empty pop cans, and Sairy quickened her pace, feeling uneasy in this unfamiliar place. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z I go up the cellar stairs, which have black rubber stair treads nailed onto them. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z “Okay, fine, busted,” she said, then playfully smacked his shoulder with a rubber glove. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z She feels like a circus clown who wakes up one morning and no longer wants to glue on the red rubber nose. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z Six more times he hears Rodel swing and the hose whistle and the strangely dead smack of the rubber striking Frederick’s hands, shoulders, and face. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z I pull the rubber band from my hair and shake it from its knot before I walk through the front doors. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z Even Amari, his drawing pad halfway out of his backpack, the colored markers gathered in their rubber band on his desk. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z The kitten knew what it was because it had been toying with it all along, but now it attacked, claws drawn, trying to sink its teeth into the soft rubber. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z Then the Ares campers called down a curse, and all the Apollo kids’ arrows turned to rubber. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z She was using a rubber spatula to scoop mashed potatoes out of a pot that Tidings held upside down over a bowl. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z The old man nodded over to a spiral notebook, a beat-up thermos, and a bunch of stubby pencils bundled together with a thick rubber band. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z At sixteen, I didn’t have the money to buy a Cadillac, but she had her own fine “rubber,” as we called a car in those days. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Multiplying by infinity is like sticking a needle in the south pole; the rubber sheet all flings upward toward the north pole: anything times infinity is infinity. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z He would be a living, breathing bull’s-eye for spitballs, rubber bands, apple cores, and flying soup. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z Before Alex left the pickup, Gallien reached behind the seat, pulled out an old pair of rubber work boots, and persuaded the boy to take them. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z The top was in sort of a bun and tied tight with red rubber bands. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z My vocal cords feel like dried, crackled rubber bands. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z I opened a drawer full of rubber bands, old batteries, rusted spoons, and what I hoped was a dried-up raisin. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z They say that the tendon didn’t detach again, that it didn’t sever or snap like a rubber band pulled too far. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z And I played with him with a rubber bone. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z Soon we were being tossed around like rubber toys in a bathtub. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z Brown hair funneled into a ponytail by a plain rubber band. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z Deborah had never heard of a rubber, and she didn’t know what pregnant was, she just knew she wanted him to leave her alone. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z His mother had on rubber boots, unbuckled, and had used small finishing nails to tack a wool blanket across the entry to the living room. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z It continued to rain heavily, but they eventually found a huge tatajuba, a type of rubber tree, that was five feet in diameter around the base. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z “You think we’re going to hold off the guards with wires and rubber bands and bits of string?” he asked incredulously. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z He dodged every rubber band, coconut custard pie, mud clod, and wadded-up sock ball they flung his way. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z Black, spit-shined police shoes with hard rubber soles cracked down on every inch of hardwood floor. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z And that afternoon, back at home, I stood tall in my brand-new black rubber boots and jutted out my chin and announced to Mamita, “I am never going back to school again.” The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Flowers, weeds, junk, pet houses, tree houses, vegetable gardens, rubber tires, grass ranging from desert-sparse to shaggy to trim as a marine’s haircut — the backyards were as different, as individual as faces. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z General Peckem lifted a wooden pointer and swept the rubber tip cheerfully across Italy from one coast to the other. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z He held the vial upside down and inserted the needle through the rubber stopper. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z Ralph threw his leg over his motorcycle, adjusted the rubber band that held his crash helmet in place, and grasped his tail so that it would not become tangled in his spokes. Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z Now I was taller than he was, gangly, freak-haired, a Tiny Tim of a girl, sitting in gown, bra, and underpants on the edge of an old- fashioned medical table with step-drawers of vulcanized rubber. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z On the way there, he stopped at the rubber factory and asked for Sissy’s foreman. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z He stretches his mouth like a rubber band, showing us his teeth. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z A man in rubber boots rose in the bow and started tossing a cast net. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z We were each given a thick rubber ring, made from tires, in which to place the stones. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Some people had switched off all their lights for effect, or strung rubber bats in their windows. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z It is like stretching the rubber cover away from the north pole and toward the south pole. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z I did not realize the trend of my subconscious thoughts until duty took me to the death chamber again and I stood on the edge of the rubber mat, within reach of the chair. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z It even had a rubber band to keep it on my face! The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z “I hope you wore a rubber,” Jimmy said, opening another beer. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z “Well, have you ever seen the little shavings of rubber left on the paper after you erase something?” Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z “No es nada,” said Jake, covering up the word treasure on his graph paper with a rubber eraser. The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z I try to fight, but my limbs have turned to rubber just as completely as the ship has turned to copper. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z As they approached the Egyptian wing, they heard the shuffling of feet and a sound they recognized as the folding of chairs and the gathering up of rubber mats. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z Francis, with his interest in theory, had neglected to fasten securely the rubber tubing around his suction pump. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z Step right up and see the epileptic boy try to purchase his first pack of rubbers! 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z It was humiliating, telling my father about the blue rubber testicles, especially because I knew he would laugh. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z A little way away, Velutha walked up the shortcut through the rubber trees. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z The soles, made from rubber tire treads, had already been reduced to shreds held together with a little leather and a great deal of hope. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z They talked like their mouths were full of rubber bands! Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z He waved his hand and a new batch of dodgeballs appeared on the center line—but these balls weren’t made of red rubber. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z They could be sealed off from the outside world while you handled a hot agent inside them with the rubber gloves. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z He put on rubber gloves, to prevent static electricity from jumping from his skin to the fuses. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z She was wearing rubber gloves to keep this chemical relaxer off her own skin, which should have been my first clue that maybe this wasn’t such a great idea. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z His nails pull the baby hairs at my hairline as he peels back the rubber cap. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z It was basically a closet full of cat, dog, hamster, and fish food, leashes, flea powders, and a few toys like bones and rubber fire hydrants that make squeaky noises. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z He was making a tiny bubble beard for the rubber duck. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z The automobile had a black canvas roof, slotted rubber tires, and a brass horn, and was shimmying and shaking and backfiring to beat the band. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z Don’t they pump your body full of strange chemicals to prevent your skin from stretching and puckering, to keep your face from resembling a rubber mask? I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z The strips of black rubber fell to the floor. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Under the left couch bunk he found a deflated rubber dinghy and a plastic paddle, but there was no other survival gear, no flares or signaling devices, on the boat. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z There were faint, black marks of a rubber plimsoll, between the metal ribs. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z Their veins and arteries have been injected with colored rubber, blue for the veins, purple for the arteries, so we can see that their blood systems are connected. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z He put on rubber gloves and began taping them to his sleeves, and he taped his socks to his pants. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z I brought a couple of plain white T-shirts, and Cap showed me how to scrunch, twist, and tie them up, securing them with rubber bands. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z Then they picked up their rubber mats and walked to the next room. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z All nine Little Baldy Bear Lakes were visible now, and at the uppermost lake a pair of campers in a bright yellow rubber boat were fishing. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Someone shoved something in my mouth—rubber and hard. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z He couldn’t see any knife marks in the rubber. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z He bobs up and down in the water, his hands and feet shiny and swollen as if made of white rubber. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z When Lee Chong came in with his gift, Darling was deliberately and happily destroying Hazel’s only pair of rubber boots while her happy masters applauded her. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Widow Garibaldi insisted on buying rubber flippers for the feet. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z Above him, among the oaken beams, the bats, their delicate copper bodies hidden under rubber flesh, blinked at him and shrieked. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z She pulled the sluice room door behind her, and tied the heavy rubber apron around her waist. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z Mrs. Amos hated bed wetters more than anything in the world and my bed had a sticky, hot, smelly rubber baby sheet on it. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z He selected a short silvery dagger with a rubber grip, then one with a long black blade. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z My thoughts are rubber and anything that comes in bounces out again by way of my mouth. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z She has full hips, and breasts that are too large for her height, like a rubber squeaky toy that’s been pushed down on the top of the head and has bulged out in these places. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z We cling to each other and the slippery rubber. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z On the wall there are markers of many colors, most of them dried out, hanging from rubber cords. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z She was wearing a new pair of bright pink rubber boots. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z He liked the camouflaging pattern of the thick fabric and sometimes tipped the thing on its side and shot rubber- tipped arrows at me and Lelia from behind its cover. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z It looked like a fire hose, except that at the end, instead of a nozzle, there was a round plunger like a big rubber ball cut in half. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z The major picked up the length of rubber hose and began tapping it menacingly against his open palm. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z |
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