His hair and beard were not only long, but tangled and unkempt, and grew so far toward each other as barely to expose a strip of dirty brown skin.

Entering on his stomach, he found himself in a room about sixteen by twenty feet, two-thirds underground, log-walls chinked with moss, a roof of poles sloping upwards, tent-like, but leaving an opening in the middle for a smoke-hole some three feet square, and covered at present by a piece of thin, translucent skin.

In choosing a tongue, ascertain how long it has been dried or pickled, and select one with a smooth skin, which denotes its being young and tender.

Boil a beef tongue until tender; take off the outer skin.

Set your aristocrat in the wilderness to earn his living by the sweat of his brow,let the rain and wind beat upon his delicate skin,shut him away from all the elevating influences to which he has been accustomed, and, in course of time, what have you?

After the fight Kazan lay down exhausted in the blood-stained snow, while faithful Gray Wolf, still filled with the endurance of her wild wolf breed, tore fiercely at the thick skin on the bull's neck to lay open the red flesh.

"They have the yellow skin, the dry mouth, the green complexion of the bilious.

The wind was strong and drove walls of water before it, and there was not a man in the attacking force with a dry skin.

The peasant's face, with the broad nose and the tough skin, coarse straight hair, the undergrowth, physical and mental, a persistent babyishness and a retardation of self-control development, make up the picture.

The one side of this, which is somewhat more Orient of Colour than the other, being clapt to the bare skin of a man, in any part of his body, it taketh away from it all weight or ponderousness; whereas turning the other side it addeth force unto the attractive beams of the Earth, either in this world or that, and maketh the body to weigh half so much again as it did before.' p. 446

He obtains a magic skin which enables him to fulfil his every wish.

Years ago Mr. PUNCHINELLO had a very old grandfather, and he well remembers that on the inside of the lid of a certain horse-hair trunk, the property of that estimable old man, was pasted a bit of poetical prophecy, the words of which embedded themselves, like the hot letters of a branding-iron, on the tender skin of Mr. PUNCHINELLO'S mind.

How pretty he looked in the water, his pink skin shining in the sunlight!

He was a noble creature, of perfect form and proportions; and as he pranced before his companions, with neck erect, and throwing his head from side to side, as if to reconnoiter his assailantswhile his mane and tail floated in the breeze, and his glossy coal-black skin gave back the rays of the morning sunhe looked like the King of the Prairie, going forth in the pride of perfect freedom.

He had vast hands, all loose skin and outstanding tendons; he had a fleshless face over which his smile was capable of extending limitlessly.

He claimed to be an Englishman,certainly he spoke the language as well as any I ever heard,but his dark eyes and swarthy skin bespoke the Spaniard or Italian, and his quickness with the foils the French.

"What's the use of goin' all the way from Nova Scotia to Caribou," says the Boy to the Schoolmaster-Miner, "if you haven't learned the way to make a window like the Indians, out of transparent skin?" Mac assumed an air of elevated contempt.

Mercy Philbrick was a woman of slight frame, gentle, laughing, brown eyes, a pale skin, pale ash-brown hair, a small nose; a sweet and changeful mouth, the upper lip too short, the lower lip much too full; little hands, little feet, little wrists.

It is like a man in rags; the naked skin is still peeping out.'

So the two opposing forces were born, with a vast kinetic skin for a battle-ground between them.

Wesley thus describes the finish of this remarkable adventure: "A little before ten o'clock God brought me safe to Wednesbury, having lost only one flap of my waistcoat, and a little skin from one of my hands.

My attention was also arrested by a person who was arrayed in a hunting suit of buck-skin, curiously wrought with strips of dyed porcupine-quill, and who wore an otter-skin cap and Indian moccasins.

During the first year he has no horns, but a horny excrescence, which is short and rough, and covered with a thin hairy skin.

Wash the beets free from dirt, and be very careful not to prick the outside skin, or they would lose their beautiful colour.

We crossed over in jalas (i.e. inflated skins) opposite the large village of Chakdara; the loads were taken off, and our animals forded the stream with little or no difficulty.