"Rubber band" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... by my bedside and, after I had barked for him two or three times, he decided I had inflammation of the lungs and was insistent that I tie a rubber band around my chest and ...
— You Should Worry Says John Henry • George V. Hobart
... sowing is another water-wise technique, especially useful later in the season. At bedtime, place the seeds in a half-pint mason jar, cover with a square of plastic window screen held on with a strong rubber band, soak the seeds overnight, and then drain them first thing in the morning. Gently rinse the seeds with cool water two or three times daily until the root tips begin to emerge. As soon as this sign appears, the seed must be sown, because the newly emerging roots become increasingly ...
— Gardening Without Irrigation: or without much, anyway • Steve Solomon
... a packet of papers, one of many which occupied the end of his table. He slipped from it a rubber band which held the ...
— Jennie Baxter, Journalist • Robert Barr
... particular crevice in the hollow trunk too well to make any mistake now. A minute later and he had fished up a little cardboard box, not over four inches in length, and secured with a rubber band. ...
— Fred Fenton on the Crew - or, The Young Oarsmen of Riverport School • Allen Chapman
... BAG. The hot water throat bag is made from fine white rubber fastened to the head by a rubber band (see illustration), and is an unfailing remedy for catarrh, hay fever, cold, toothache, headache, earache, ...
— Searchlights on Health - The Science of Eugenics • B. G. Jefferis and J. L. Nichols
... had removed the rubber band that held the cover in its place, her astonished eyes fell upon a pair of exquisite diamond crescents for the ears, and a cross, which, from the description which Ray had given her, she knew must have been among the ...
— True Love's Reward • Mrs. Georgie Sheldon
... A rubber band around your waist would do as much good as some of these makeshift trusses and "appliances"; and not be so ...
— Cluthe's Advice to the Ruptured • Chas. Cluthe & Sons
... draining it. "Thank God," she said, "another day done!" and began getting together her photographs into a neat packet, tilting the contents of the saucer into a small biscuit-tin and snapping it around with a rubber band. ...
— Humoresque - A Laugh On Life With A Tear Behind It • Fannie Hurst
... in on the split either. I'm paying her ten a week besides her board. That's good money for a squaw." He counted out the amount in ten dollar bills and snapped a rubber band around them. ...
— The Heritage of the Sioux • B.M. Bower |
