When she found out they had killed the cat they got from us, and tanned the skin to make a rim on a cap, you should have seen Pearl.

" "Now," quoth the stranger, "I will tan thy hide till it be as many colors as a beggar's cloak, if thou darest so much as touch a string of that same bow that thou holdest in thy hands.

The Indian women tanned the softest buckskin for his little things, and he had the most elaborately beaded garments.

This morning Penn stepped from the water and approached, his long thin body tanned ivory brown, his eyes blue-green, clear as a cat's.

Her costume, as Monsieur de Folligny had also discovered, became her admirably, the sun and wind had tanned her face and arms to a rich warmth, and this color made the blue of her eyes the more tender.

And as for me, we made a broth of young walnut leaves and twigs, and tanned my hands and face with it a ruddy brown, so that I looked a different lad.

They had farmed it all summer, they said, and were tanned so deep a hue that their faces bore no small resemblance to ham.

He tanned his own leather.

He had no lodge, no wife to tan his robes or sew his moccasins.

The oak, which is the great laboratory of tannin, not only lays up stores of it in its bark and leaves, but its roots discharge into the ground enough of it to tan the rootlets of all plants that venture to put down their suction-hose into the same region, and their spongioles are so effectually closed by this process, that they can no longer perform their office, and the plant that bears them dies.

And the South African sun had tanned him almost bronze.

If I do not tan thy hide this day as ne'er I tanned a calf's hide in all my life before, split my staff into skewers for lamb's flesh and call me no more brave man!

They can dance, but not draw; talk French, but know nothing of the language of flowers; neither in childhood were allowed to cultivate them, lest they should tan their complexions.

He bought hides this way: When a fellow bring hides he would tan em then give him back half what he brought.

They clean miss the long weeks of salt-water and the slow passage across the plains which pickled and tanned the early emigrants.

The leather for ma shoon can be tanned frae the skins