Skinned
[skɪnd]
Definition
(imp. & p. p.) of Skin
Typed by Denis
Examples
- Gerald looked at him, and with a slight revulsion saw the human animal, golden skinned and bare, somehow humiliating. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- He held something in his two hands that looked like a freshly skinned rabbit and hurried across the corridor with it and in through another door. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- I said, with withering irony, that it was sufficient to be skinned--I declined to be scalped. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- They were white-skinned, full, muscular legs, handsome and decided. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- A skinned man would be likely to look that way unless his attention were occupied with some other matter. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- She is always mighty gentle with her young baronet, mighty tender for his feelings, forsooth, and of his very thin-skinned _amour propre_. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- His nose was skinned and there was dust on the bloody patch and dust in his hair. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- Who is not familiar with the chipped flint arrow-heads that the farmer so often turns up with his plow as a relic of the period when Americans were red-skinned instead of white? Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- He was dark, and smooth-skinned, and full of a stealthy vigour. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- The golden-haired, white-skinned therns battling with desperate courage in hand-to-hand conflict with their ebony-skinned foemen. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- Really, by the side of Sir James, he looks like a death's head skinned over for the occasion. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Donne was thick-skinned. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- If I could be skinned, and come white, I'd try then. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- We find a wavy-haired, fairish, hairy-skinned race, the Ainu, in Japan. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Gudrun was very beautiful, passive, soft-skinned, soft-limbed. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- There were old and young, brown-skinned and yellow. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- He looks like a skinned rabbit with a puckered-up old-man's face. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- They were tall, muscular, and very dark-skinned Bedouins, with inky black beards. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Loerke turned to Gerald, a devilish leer on his bright-skinned face. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- The scenes depicted for the most part, a fair-skinned, fair-haired people at play. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
- On December 12, 1901, a quiet, dark-skinned young man sat, about noontime, in a room of the old barracks building on Signal Hill, near St. John’s, Newfoundland. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
Typed by Denis