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Example sentences for "goatskins"

Lexicographically close words:
goatherds; goatish; goatlike; goats; goatskin; goatsucker; goatsuckers; gobbets; gobble; gobbled
  1. The Republicans were surrounded on all sides by the Goatskins uttering their savage cries, which were more like howls.

  2. Fawnskins on their shoulders and goatskins on their legs are or used to be part of their equipment, and another indispensable part of it is a number of sheep-bells tied round their waists.

  3. These goatskins were placed between planks, with a sort of a Chinese windlass arrangement for squeezing the planks together.

  4. Goatskins sewed in the form of cones prevented the water from entering the vessel, the base of the cone being nailed to the sides of the boat, the apex of which was cut off and bound around the staff of the oar.

  5. The description tells of some very ingenious arrangements for submerging the boat, in which he used goatskins sewed together in the form of bags.

  6. The liming of goatskins presents some points of contrast with the methods used for other skins.

  7. India also supplies a large number of raw dried goatskins which are small and of variable quality.

  8. As goatskins are so tight fibred, a longer liming and a greater loss of collagen is permissible than with most pelts for chrome.

  9. The tanning and finishing of goatskins into "morocco leather" may indeed be taken as a quite typical example of light leather manufacture.

  10. Salted goatskins are first immersed in water and left until the following day.

  11. Thus sumach-tanned goatskins are wet back from the crust and "retanned" in sumach before dyeing, to coat the fibres with a fresh and more adsorbent gel and so ensure the even and thorough adsorption of the dyestuff.

  12. As the supply of goatskins is unfortunately too limited, an even more widely used glace upper leather is made from sheepskins, and often sold as glace kid.

  13. The methods are very closely similar to those used for goatskins and sealskins (Part II.

  14. Goatskins are imported in either a salted or a dried condition.

  15. The Swiss goatskins are larger, and have also a fine grain; they are well grown and well flayed.

  16. Goatskins for "glazed dongola" are paddled tanned in gambier liquors, and alum and salt are subsequently added.

  17. Large quantities of goatskins also come from the East.

  18. They are finished in much the same style as goatskins for morocco leather, but as the sheepskin has little natural grain it needs embossing or printing according to the type required.

  19. I never heard of modern goatskins descending from ancient goatskins before.

  20. One of the sailors on board the Anteus was kind enough to make me a suit of clothes out of the goatskins that I bought of Pearce.

  21. While we were talking, Pearce overtook us with a bundle of goatskins which we had bargained for the night before, and we all went down to the boat-landing together.

  22. So no doubt many of the rustics were already wondering if they would not look better in shakos and crimson breeches than they did in the blue cotton and goatskins of their shepherds' dress.

  23. He wears goatskins or sheepskins, and is attended by a boy who dispenses wine to the people.

  24. A man disguised in goatskins and fawnskins, the livery of Dionysus, is shot at and falls down as dead.

  25. Come hither, and trample dainty fern and poppy-blossom: sleep On goatskins that are softer than thy fleeces piled three deep.

  26. Come hither, and tread on lambswool that is soft as any dream: Still more unsavoury than thyself to me thy goatskins seem.

  27. Sheepskins and goatskins dried in the sun were commonly used, what remained of their wardrobes being reserved for special occasions.


  28. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "goatskins" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.