Crossword-Solution: INDIARUBBER 11 letters, 7 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 16

Life, my old shipmate, life, at any moment and in any view, is as dangerous as a sinking ship; and yet it is man's handsome fashion to carry umbrellas, to wear indiarubber over- shoes, to begin vast works, and to conduct himself in every way as if he might hope to be eternal.

And yet, in the course of a very few years, by the simplest possible contrivance--inserting an indiarubber ring round each end of the tube (Spencer's patent)--surface condensation in marine engines came into vogue; and there is probably no ocean-going steamer afloat without it, furnished with every variety of suitable packings.

Spencer had patented an improvement on Hall's method of surface condensation, by introducing indiarubber rings at each end of the tubes.

But Robert said, “My magic will not bring up great waves, but I can show you how to steer without stars.” He took out the shilling compass, still, fortunately, in working order, that he had bought off another boy at school for fivepence, a piece of indiarubber, a strip of whalebone, and half a stick of red sealing-wax.

Under competent advice, provision for respiration on emergency was provided in three small balloons, filled with a mixture of air and oxygen, and fitted with indiarubber hose pipes, which would allow the mixture, when inhaled, to pass first through a wash bottle containing aromatic fluid.