So she oiled it, and as it was quite badly rusted the Scarecrow took hold of the tin head and moved it gently from side to side until it worked freely, and then the man could turn it himself.
And Dorothy oiled them and the Scarecrow bent them carefully until they were quite free from rust and as good as new.
"I have been holding that axe in the air ever since I rusted, and I'm glad to be able to put it down at last.
"For," he said, "if I should get caught in the rain, and rust again, I would need the oil-can badly."
There was only one danger--that my joints would rust; but I kept an oil-can in my cottage and took care to oil myself whenever I needed it.
I went through gallery after gallery, dusty, silent, often ruinous, the exhibits sometimes mere heaps of
rust and lignite, sometimes fresher.
"Once the Scarecrow and I found the Tin Woodman in the woods, and he was just
rusted still, that time, an' no mistake.
At one end of this ghastly apartment was a large fire-grate, over the top of which were stretched some transverse iron bars, half devoured with
rust.
The blade was red, for the blood had become
rust; after a momentary examination during which the queen became as white as the cloth which covered the altar on which she was leaning, he put it back into the coffer with an involuntary shudder.
The first thing he did was to clean up some armour that had belonged to his great-grandfather, and had been for ages lying forgotten in a corner eaten with
rust and covered with mildew.
Thus bound, but carefully looked after, inert and powerful, those emblems of hope make company for the look-out man in the night watches; and so the days glide by, with a long rest for those characteristically shaped pieces of iron, reposing forward, visible from almost every part of the ship's deck, waiting for their work on the other side of the world somewhere, while the ship carries them on with a great rush and splutter of foam underneath, and the sprays of the open sea
rust their heavy limbs.
Since retirement, he maintains several active research interests including studies in biology and evolutionary relationships of
rusts in the Puccinia recondita (leaf
rust) species complex.
Leaf
rusts also called as brown
rust, stripe
rust also called as yellow
rust and stem
rust also called as black
rust, smuts, bunts and aphids as biotic stresses (Hussain et al.,2006) and terminal heat, drought, salinity, winds, hailstorms, fogs and excessive cloudy weather during crop season are the salient a-biotic stresses (Hussain et al., 2011).
The most ef ficient and economical management of wheat
rusts is the generation of
rust resistant varieties and their on-farm cultivation (Chaudhary et al., 1998; Hussain et al., 1999; Kalappanavar et al., 2008).
Success in breeding for and managing durable resistance to wheat
rusts. Plant Disease, 79: 1254-1255.
