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"Waterproof" Quotes from Famous Books

... in a waterproof white, The children run after him so! Calling out, "He's come out in his night- Gown, ...

— A Nonsense Anthology • Collected by Carolyn Wells

... never mind; I'll share my rubber coat with you. We can put it over us and sit up to sleep. That will make a waterproof tent. Perhaps we may be able to find a stake or something to stick up in ...

— The Circus Boys on the Flying Rings • Edgar B. P. Darlington

... the hurrying steps behind her and turned. There was an evident start when she caught sight of her pursuer—a quick change of expression. She wore a close-fitting waterproof dress and cap. Her hair was lightly loosened, her cheek freshened by the storm. He came up with her; he took her hand, his eyes dancing with the joy ...

— Robert Elsmere • Mrs. Humphry Ward

... is smooth, strong, and pliant; the young blades particularly, from their not being exposed to the sun and air, have an appearance of great neatness, and are generally preferred. Other bags and baskets, not waterproof, are made of cedar-bark, silk-grass, rushes, flags, and common coarse sedge, for the use of families. In these manufactures, as in the ordinary work of the house, the instrument most in use is a knife, or rather a ...

— First Across the Continent • Noah Brooks

... try to get into the craft yet," ordered Dick, as the canoe was slid out upon the water, Prescott holding the painter, which he tied around a sapling growing near the water's edge. "We want to make sure that this canoe is waterproof. If it stands twenty minutes without taking in water we'll ...

— The High School Boys' Fishing Trip • H. Irving Hancock

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