It seemed uncanny to think of putting my baby daughter in a gas-proof tent."

One of these mentioned was a 69-year-old gas-proof tin of Mazawattee tea.

Gas masks and heavy, gas-proof clothing protect adequately against most poisonous gases.

It isn't that they'll hurt whoever's holding them, because the gas-proof coveralls are pretty nearly bite-proof as well.

Each of the two main entrances was protected by offset and double bomb-proof, gas-proof doors.

The surviving kzinti moved efficiently into their battle armor, which was gas-proof alert, thoroughly alarmed, and ready for action.

Although allied troops are protected by gas-proof suits, boots and masks, movement through an area under chemical attack would be slow and hazardous.

Some people readied gas-proof bomb shelters.

Shelly was completely covered, and sweating, in a gas-proof isolation suit so the cub wouldn't get any memories of a friendly human smell.

Five probes had been affected by the gas and he had deposited them in a gas-proof container in the ship's lab.

These were the first weatherproof, splinterproof and gas-proof enclosed gun turrets ever mounted on a destroyer.

As the alert sirens sounded across Israel warning of the attack, Israelis sealed themselves into gas-proof rooms and put on their gas masks.

The ones that really stink are the baby hyenas; that's when whoever holds the animal is glad that the gas-proof suit works in both directions.

Some balloons are insulated by double layers of gas-proof fabric, but balloonists hotly debate the utility of such features.

Most of the tunnels beneath Beijing are now empty, their gas-proof hatches paved over and their 10-inch-thick, radiation-proof steel doors locked shut.

The vehicle features bulletproof windows, state-of-the-art communication and protection systems, a stowable desk, and a gas-proof chamber for defense against gas attacks.

A system of gas-proof doors was installed to maintain a clean airflow in the tunnels, and a fully equipped operating theatre was installed.

It was a heavy infantryman in his armored suit and gas-proof helmet, A-bombs and grenades strapped to him, a regular walking armory.

"As well as being bomb-proof it was gas-proof, air-conditioned, had its own electric light plant and was provisioned to withstand a siege.

He added that the zeppelin's 16 cells, made of gas-proof latex-treated cotton, contained seven million cubic feet of hydrogen gas capable of lifting 247,000 pounds.

Throughout the night, no air-raid siren sounded, and many in the nation stayed awake listening to the news near or from within the gas-proof rooms many had prepared.

He knew, vaguely, that he had been advised to make a gas-proof room, and he knew with certainty that he had done nothing about it.

The Israeli director led them down a series of carpeted corridors, each separated by steel fire- and gas-proof doors, until finally they entered the new Cyndex extension.

A bomb-proof and gas-proof bunker was built during World War II by the Germans to control the large gun positions erected in the vicinity.

The encapsulated space is never really gas-proof, and at some spots substances may leak out at considerably higher concentrations than they would do without the made efforts to hold them back.