Skins

Examples

• Originally no doubt, and for untold centuries, the use was confined to the hairy, undressed, fresh, or dried skins, known as pelts. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• I've been a-chivied and a-chivied, fust by one on you and nixt by another on you, till I'm worritted to skins and bones. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• The skins of the larger animals were the original materials of clothing. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• The buffalo-skins, doubled in fours, were spread all along one side, and four men, with great difficulty, lifted the heavy form of Tom into it. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• Some people have freckles, when others do not, because all skins are not alike, just the same as eyes are not all of one color. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Mr. Bell would have had it keep still at exchanging wild-beast skins for acorns. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• Their dwellings are made of bark, skins and mattings of their own making, stretched on poles fixed in the ground. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• They used skins to wrap about them, and the women probably dressed the skins. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Their skins, therefore, are commonly good for little. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• You find it difficult enough yourself, and she is several skins thinner than you are. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• I deal in cat-skins among other general matters, and hers was offered to me. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• That of calves skins, on the contrary, is greatly below it. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• A kindred sort of vessel grew up by the use of skins and hides expanded upon a wicker framework. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• We all know that leather is the skins of animals, dressed and prepared for our use by tanning, or some other process, which preserves them from rotting and renders them pliable and tough. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Most of the native peoples of Africa south of the Sahara, but not all, have black or blackish skins, flat noses, thick lips, and frizzy hair. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• There would be skins about. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The country was wild, and it was a usual occurrence to see deer, bear, and coon skins nailed up on the sides of houses to dry. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• And I'd shave the wild-beast skins and make the wool into broad cloth. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• It tells how they was stoned and sawn asunder, and wandered about in sheep-skins and goat-skins, and was destitute, afflicted, tormented. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• The aborigines knew how to sharpen bones of the animals they killed to scrape, clean, soften or roughen their skins. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• He also had earthenware drums across which skins were stretched; perhaps also he made drums by stretching skins over hollow tree stems. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Hence the wooden shoes, and those made of coarse hide and dressed and undressed skins, and of coarse cloth, mixed or unmixed with leather. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• The simplest species of clothing, the skins of animals, require somewhat more labour to dress and prepare them for use. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• These skins they prepared with skill and elaboration, and towards the end of the age they used bone needles, no doubt to sew these pelts. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Two hundred skins, replied Alcibiades glibly; and named what he considered a fair price. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• Earl Stanhope had endeavoured in vain to construct inking rollers, for which purpose he tried skins and pelts of various kinds, but the seam proved an obstacle that he could not overcome. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• One may guess pretty safely that they painted these skins, and it has even been supposed, printed off designs upon them from bone cylinders. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Its fur is short, soft and silky; the best skins being brought from Russia, Sweden and Norway and Hudson Bay territories. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• The bladders of animals suggested it, and their skins were substituted for the bladders. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• In this process the skins are steeped in a bath of alum, salt and other substances, and they are also sometimes soaked in fish-oil. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.

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