His skin was icy cold, and as wet as if he had been lying out in the dew.
At last, when our skin felt like tightly drawn parchment, and our ears and eyes had long been filled with powdered earth, the wind dropped at sunset as suddenly as it had risen five days before.
There is a kind of grasse in the country, vpon the blades whereof there groweth very good silke in forme of a thin glittering skin to be stript off.
When did you get back, and did you bring me that skin you promised?
She knelt upon the white bear-skin rug, and taking the poker tried to stir it into a blaze again; but the faint flicker made her shiver.
On account of the color of his skin and the attendant delimitations begotten thereby, he felt that other avenues for redress were closed and that he must have recourse to revolution.
Though her parents had been silent on the subject, Erma now knew from the color of her skin and the texture of her hair that her father must have been white.
The colour used is the rosin of a nut-tree precipitated on a cool stone and mixed with the juice of a plant; the pattern is drawn on the skin with a stick, and then traced with the tattooing-needle.
She wears a small loin-cloth, and her light coffee-coloured skin is scrupulously clean.
The skin is then washed and rubbed with a certain juice, which evidently acts as a disinfectant; at least I never saw any inflammation consequent on tattooing.
I also found a new type of drum, a regular skin-drum, with the skin stretched across one end, while the other is stuck into the ground.
The shade of the skin varies a good deal from a dull purple, brownish-black, to coffee colour; but the majority of individuals are light, and the dark ones probably inherited their shade from the tall race.
Now you must come to breakfast, and bring your lion's skin and your bow--to be done alone.
He had saturated his skin with the juice of onions and garlic, and there was never any mistaking his proximity.
Her skin was dark, almost swarthy, but it was touched with a fine rosy glow of health and youth.
I was transformed into an Apache Indian by a generous rubbing into my skin of burnt sienna and cadmium, which I was weeks in getting rid of; a blanket and some chicken-feathers finished my array.
Instead of kindly granting my request, as you did, they set their hounds on me, which condemned me to wear the loathsome fox-skin still longer, so I turned them to stone.
Always keep in store a sponge and chamois skinto be used especially for washing and drying out the inside of vehicle bodies.
Likewise by the skinning over of a varnish, the broken particles of the skinthen working into the liquid and thence conveyed to the surface.
Mr. Hoebel says: "Instead of sanding down the old varnish, I skinit off by the use of ammonia and a stiff bladed putty knife.
That greenish hue of his complexion was the livery of the absinthe-drinker, whose skin gradually assumes the colour of his favourite stimulant.
It is so, Harry--at least it is of the fur with which its skin is covered.
I must first tell you that the skin of the Beaver is most valuable during winter, as the fur is then thicker and finer than during the summer.
My father also taught me how to skin the buffalo, so that when I killed the buffalo I knew how to skin it and bring the buffalo meat home.
When I was a young man we had buffalo skulls with the meat and skin all taken off and we would tie ropes to them and put them on the ice.
The medicine of the ordinary Indian family is hung over the entrance of the doorway or suspended on a pole, and may consist of a wolf skin or a dark blanket rolled in oblong fashion containing the sacred tokens of the family.
Then the wife was told to take out the tripe and skin it, for they used the skin as a bucket with which to carry water when they got home.
Just as we came together he fired his last arrow at me; it passed through my arm, but it was only a skin wound.
When we killed a buffalo bull, we placed him on his knees, then we began to skin him down the back of the neck, down the backbone, splitting it on each side.
This man who had been shot by my friend got up again as his wound was only a skin wound.
Yes, indeed; and he had swum through the creek, and lay on the hearth as drunk as a red-skin can be, and snored so that we could hear him outdoors.
But Conrad had already sunk back on the bear skin and had fallen asleep, or pretended that he had.
Many of the squaws and papooses were gorgeous in white doe skin suits, gaudily trimmed with beads, and bows of bright ribbons.
She was not so gentle as usual when she combed my hair and gave my face a right hard scrubbing with a cloth and whey, which grandma bade her use, "because it makes the skin so nice and soft.
I liked the black and white skin better than the brindle, so he cut that for the right foot, and told me always to make it start first.
Suppose we try," said Bruce, slipping into his skin garments and looking to his rifle.
The provisions, together with bales of skin clothing, were packed into every available space.
After that we must skin 'em and make a cache for the meat.
When close enough, Barney, who was the stronger of the two, was to drive the harpoon-point through the thick skin of the creature.
I guess that's the finest tiger skin in the world.
The heavy skin clothing of his antagonist hampered his action.
The gasoline must all be strained through a chamois-skin to insure them against water in the engines, and this, with the temperature at thirty to forty below, was no mean task.
Your wings prevent you from putting a beast's skin round you, and entwining your hair with vine.
Your princely name you have dragged through the mire, your wings you have given up for a panther's skin and a grape-wreath, and know not yet what repentance is.
For when you have got rid of your wings, then you can throw a panther's skin round you, and put a vine-wreath round your hair, and you will be altogether one of us.
The verb tattoo, to adorn the skin with patterns, is Polynesian.
It is a French word of unknown origin, properly applied to the inner skin of fruit and nuts.
Thus the poetic sward, scarcely used except with "green," meant originally the skin or crust of anything.
She was apparently about ten years of age; her skin was remarkably fair; and her eyes, as Darby afterwards said, were as blue and beautiful as little violets.
It's fine weather here, if, with three coats on your back, you don't get wet to the skin in forty minutes.
She was dressed in a black stuff frock, a tippet of the same material, and a seal-skin cap, with a gold band and tassel, which seemed to have been very recently tarnished by the weather.
I wouldn't ha' had un if his skin were stuffed wi' gold.
He had also made many experiments in galvanism, and had found silicious earth in the skin of reeds and grass.
You see, once in the coppice he had only to watch his moment for throwing off the skin and jumping on me from behind; a dig in the back before a man had time to fire his piece was easy work enough.
Then you can return to your cow-pens with a whole skin and a clean conscience.
Lars then led him under the drooping branches of a fir-tree, tied him to one of them, gave him an armful of hay, and fastened the reindeer-skin upon his back.
Teepees, a hundred and twoscore, skin tents of the savage tribes and homes also of the whites, were grouped irregularly over a space of more than half a mile.
A drum stretched with the skin of the hanged was beaten with the tail of a wolf.
It was a skin of wine and, with a half-suppressed cry of joy, he seized upon it.
The whiteness of her skin was enhanced by her blue black hair and lustrous black eyes.
He appeared surprised more than ever, and swore, which was the first time that I had heard him swear from my first knowing him, that he could not have believed there was any such skin without paint in the world.
Instead, he hastened on toward the point where he had left the tribe, and when he had found them proudly exhibited the skin of Sabor, the lioness.
But ere they touched that fair skin another mood claimed the anthropoid.
During his convalescence Tarzan tried to fashion a mantle from the skin of Sabor, which had lain all this time in the cabin.
The shape of his head reminded one somewhat of the big sort of seal which is called Klakkekal--his skin about the neck looked dark and shaggy, and the tops of his fingers grew together.
He was lifting his pointed cap up and down, up and down, by means of a thread of sinew, which went right through him, so that his skin creaked.
The skin of his face hung down long and loose, and full of wrinkles, like an old reindeer skin, and there was a dizzying smoke in his eyes.
He barred the wolf's way, and threatened the bear with spells; and then he opened his skin sack, so that the storm howled and piped, and there was a swirl of ashes into the hut.
Jack put the reindeer-skin over Seimke, and the boat rocked them to and fro on the heavy sea as if it were a cradle.
There stood a fellow in a flat turned-down skin cap, whose face they couldn't see.
She looked old and angular as she bent over the reindeer-skin that she was spreading out in the sunny weather.
But Jack lifted Seimke up, and sprang down with her to his boat, and held the reindeer-skin behind him, against the Gan-Finn.
His spacious skinjacket was open, and round his neck he had a cheap red woollen scarf.
Then she put the reindeer-skin around her, and stood inside the Gamme door in the smoke, so that the Gan-Finn only saw the grey skin, and fancied it was the reindeer they were bringing in.
