Tanned

Examples

• So saying, the trooper puts his lips to the old girl's tanned forehead, and the door shuts upon him in his cell. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• He was a major, his face was tanned and he laughed all the time. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• A face showed itself with marked distinctness against the dark-tanned wood of the upper part. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• There were ten men, swarthy, sun-tanned, villainous looking fellows. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• Up, infidel dog when I command you, said Prince John, or I will have thy swarthy hide stript off, and tanned for horse-furniture. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• The driver wore a cap and his face was thin and very tanned. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• The sheepskin was fresh dried and not tanned and as Robert Jordan rested his stocking feet on it he could feel it crackle like parchment. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• The broad, muscular back was turned toward him, but, tanned though it was, D'Arnot saw that it was the back of a white man, and he thanked God. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• The cow hide is used practically altogether for sole leather and is bark tanned in the majority of cases. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Her son was of a fair, sun-tanned type, rather above middle height, well-made, and almost exaggeratedly well-dressed. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .

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