"I remember we used to play hide-and-seek up there.

It was a nest of serpents, which would never have existed so long but for the darkness in which they lay hid.

"No solid mountain of gold is going to save your hide" Benny began to jig up and down in a frenzy of excitement.

He got out hides because it had to be donegoatskins and calfskinssteeped them in the river, laid them in bark, and tanned them after a fashion ready for shoes.

The agreement being made, Dido cut the hide into thongs, so as to enclose a space sufficiently large for a citadel, which she called Bursa "the hide."

While he was hunting, the girl dressed buffalo hides and the skins of deer and other animals.

He took the hide of a bull, and cutting it as small as he might, made one thong of the whole skin.

" "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.

While we were getting supper, Joe commenced curing the moose-hide, on which I had sat a good part of the voyage, he having already cut most of the hair off with his knife at the Caucomgomoc.

An' thist as she kicked her heels, an' turn't to run an' hide, They wuz two great big Black Things a-standin' by her side, An' they snatched her through the ceilin' 'fore she knowed what she's about!

He offered a good price and obtained from various llama owners promises to bring the hide and bones of one of their "camels" for shipment; but they never did.

Between the years 900 and 1000, Ednoth bought a hide of land for about a hundred and eighteen shillings of our present money [z].

He guessed that Angus McRae's party had reached Whoop-Up and had stopped to buy supplies and perhaps to sell hides and pemmican.

There is an old tale that the arch-duke of Austria killed Richard I., and wore as a spoil the lion's hide which belonged to our English monarch.

A skeleton lodge and frame of poles for drying moose-hides remained.

The improved process consists in placing the hides with the solution of tan in close vessels, and then exhausting the air.

Oliver had never seen an elk hide.

At length Joe had stripped off the hide and dragged it trailing to the shore, declaring that it weighed a hundred pounds, though probably fifty would have been nearer the truth.

As soon as he had rested sufficiently, he would ply the cow-hide again, thus he would continue until the whole back of the poor victim was lacerated into one uniform coat of blood.

It never hurt his hide.

Yer b'en run erway en' hid in de swamp somewhar ernudder.'

When the sacrifice was ended, they gave the hides to Dracontius, and desired him to conduct them to the place where he had made the course.

Dreadful was the shock And perilous to Rustem; but when Rakush Perceived the contest doubtful, furiously, With his keen teeth, he bit and tore away The dragon's scaly hide; whilst quick as thought The Champion severed off the ghastly head, And deluged all the plain with horrid blood.

And you shall judge that I kept safe hid; for whether this might have any natural explaining, or whether it was a matter that did go utter beyond knowledge of man, I did not know; for surely in that strange Land, it did like to be an Horrid Danger in any case; and whether of some Monstrous Creatures, or of the Evil Forces of the Land, I did wisely to be away.

I'd know his hide in a tanyard.