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Example sentences for "cowhide"

Lexicographically close words:
cowering; cowers; cowgirl; cowherd; cowherds; cowhiding; cowhouse; cowl; cowld; cowled
  1. Looking about him anxiously, he espied a pair of greasy cowhide "larrigans" lying on the floor near the door.

  2. Going noiselessly as a cat in his cowhide larrigans, Brannigan made his way down the narrow trail between the stiff dark ranks of the spruce timber toward the lake.

  3. And when you hear 'em thunderin' On the Academic shin, Back them cowhide boots to win!

  4. I converted a cowhide knapsack into a temporary foot-warmer, much to the detriment of such articles of food as were still stored in its recesses, and tucked a boot under each arm to keep the leather from hardening.

  5. Down the lane ran the squatter and the dog with no pause save to pick up the cowhide boots from the side of the path, where Tess had cast them in the mad race.

  6. Ye can cowhide me if ye wants to, but don't say nothin' against my Daddy!

  7. Four huge thorns held together the edges of a rent down the center of the skirt, which came just above the knees, Daddy Skinner's cowhide boots lifting themselves under the hem.

  8. He was even now ashamed of the girl in cowhide boots and torn, thin skirt.

  9. And now did the Tanner's cowhide cap stand him in good stead, and but for it he might never have held staff in hand again.

  10. Hearing a rustling of the branches, Little John stopped and presently caught sight of the brown cowhide cap of the Tanner moving among the bushes.

  11. Illustration] Now gather round the kitchen fire, And pile the chunks on hier and hier, Git out the old fiddle and partners choose, And shake her down in your cowhide shoes.

  12. He weighed 146 with hiz winter clothes and cowhide boots on.

  13. He wore a flat gray cloth cap, a dingy wool-colored greatcoat, and cowhide boots.

  14. Anglin had removed his cowhide boots, and, with velvet tread, then advanced the entire length of the long hall, motioning those behind him to remain where they were.

  15. From a side view the make-up was that of a typical huckster of these parts, fur cap, with ear lappets, corduroy greatcoat and cowhide boots.

  16. Wash Hodges tried to whop her with a cowhide and she'd knock him down and bloody him up.

  17. My marster jes' had a large cowhide whoop.

  18. Us use lace cowhide strings or any kind rope across de poles to hold de bed up.

  19. He wore long cowhide boots, with jeans pants thrust into their tops, flannel shirt of a nondescript color and a corduroy jacket.

  20. He was very angry and now he shook his cowhide whip at them.

  21. Jest come deown and ye can sample this cowhide o' mine.

  22. His splay-feet stood all parrot-toed In cowhide shoes arrayed, And his hair seemed cut across his brow By rule and plummet laid.

  23. Jason, bending his huge body and patting his leg and knee to the beat of one big cowhide boot and urging them on in a frenzy of delight: "Come on, Jason!

  24. He said he'd cowhide me till I was black and blue if I didn't raise some money for him.

  25. Pumps being out of vogue, cowhide boots were worn by the former and calf brogans by the latter.

  26. Pulling a great cowhide wallet from his pocket, still holding the locket in his hand, to the amazement of the clerk he counted out twenty dollars and laid them down.

  27. All this time Mr. Bass had not moved, not so much as to lift his head or shift one of his great cowhide boots.

  28. Jethro thrust his hand into his pocket, and again the cowhide wallet came out.

  29. He wore a close-cropped beard, an old blue army overcoat, and his trousers were tucked into a pair of muddy cowhide boots.

  30. Jethro took the appointment, and put it in his cowhide wallet.

  31. He drew forth his cowhide wallet and produced from it a folded piece of newspaper which must, Wetherell felt sure, contain the mortgage in question.

  32. He thrust his hand in his coat and drew out a cowhide wallet, and from the wallet the oval locket itself.

  33. After loading up at the store, Lem Hallowell, instead of heading for Brampton, drove to the tannery house, left his horses standing as he ran in, and presently emerged with a little cowhide trunk that bore the letter W.

  34. When the cowhide ripped across their bare shoulders, they did not even give a quiver.

  35. The cowhide for their cattle and servants, and the rifle where the cowhide failed to convince.

  36. The overseers rode about abusing them in German and Low Dutch, and plying their cowhide whips over the backs of those who fainted or shirked their work.

  37. His trowsers being too long, were rolled up around the tops of a pair of heavy cowhide boots; and his coat-sleeves being too short, revealed arms that were as brown and muscular as those of a blacksmith.

  38. I wouldn’t be in yer cowhide shoes fur no money.

  39. He wore neither stock nor waistcoat, his trousers were baggy and too short for his long legs, and his cowhide shoes were covered with dust.

  40. The commentator explains that by a wet cowhide is meant a piece of cowhide that has been dipped in water and thus purified.


  41. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "cowhide" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    baste; beat; belabor; belt; buckskin; buffet; cane; cat; club; cowhide; crop; cudgel; cut; drub; ermine; flagellate; flagellum; flail; flog; fur; hide; horsewhip; lace; lash; pelt; pommel; pummel; rawhide; scourge; smite; spank; strap; stripe; switch; thong; thrash; thump; trounce; wallop; whale; whip; whiplash; whop