But your brother is a good man, has ears, and for his sake some of my buffalo will follow him home to his people, and the white cowskin shall be his fetish to remember me by.
In answering the proposed inquiries, I will say first, that although there are various other modes resorted to, whipping with the cowskin is the usual mode of inflicting punishment on the poor slave.
The sheriff had a process to serve on a man of the name of Bright, and, in consequence of some difficulty and intemperate language, thought proper to commence the service by the application of his cowskin to the defendant.
Ranaway, the negro slave named Jupiter--has a fresh mark of a cowskin on one of his cheeks.
The next day the parties met on horseback, when Harper dismounted, and proceeded to cowskin Nevils for the chastisement inflicted on the negroes.
Once I remember seeing him come into his drawing-room at Hartford in a pair of white cowskin slippers with the hair out, and do a crippled colored uncle, to the joy of all beholders.
The old man then ordered the eldest boy to begin his Pater Noster; and simultaneously the whipper-in elevated his cowskin by way of encouragement.
Cowskin is good for books which are to be much handled and are likely to be worn out and discarded within five years.
A Cleveland binder made for "Harper's Weekly," with heavy cowskin back and keratol sides, was in constant use for 30 months and looked well nearly all that time.
The man who wields the blood-clotted cowskin during the week fills the pulpit on Sunday, and claims to be a minister of the meek and lowly Jesus.
He always went armed with a cowskin and a heavy cudgel.
Mrs. Hamilton used to sit in a large chair in the middle of the room, with a heavy cowskin always by her side, and scarce an hour passed during the day but was marked by the blood of one of these slaves.
The part held in the hand is nearly an inch in thickness; and, from the extreme end of the butt or handle, the cowskin tapers its whole length to a point.
Behind her stood old master, with cowskin in hand, preparing his barbarous work with all manner of harsh, coarse, and tantalizing epithets.
As they passed her, she would draw her cowskin and give them a blow, saying, "move faster, you black jip!
A cowskin and a hickory stick are his constant companions.
He was amply provided with a cowskin and a rope; and he evidently intended to tie me up, and to wreak his vengeance on me to the fullest extent.
The{80} cowskin is a kind of whip seldom seen in the northern states.
Their dress was a Panama hat, a shirt worn over a pair of pantaloons, a pair of rough cowskin shoes, one of which was armed with a spur, and a sword lashed to the left side by a belt of cotton cloth.
Twelve stripes with the cowskin he may administer for the smaller offenses, and twenty-four for transgressions of more importance; but if any more become necessary, he must apply to a magistrate for permission to lay them on.
Moccasins for winter use were made of buffalo robe, and of tanned buffalo cowskin for summer wear.
Her mother makes her a new cowskin lodge, complete, with new lodge poles, lining, and back rests.
Footnote 1: That is, the painting on cowskin of the various battles and adventures in which the owner of the lodge had taken part.
He went to the old women's lodge, and wrapped a strip of cowskin about his head, and commenced to groan, as if he was very sick.
In summer a lighter robe was worn, made of cowskin or buckskin, from which the hair had been removed.
His next important engagement was at Cowskin Prairie, June 6.
At Cowskin Prairie, the scouts had to be called in, not because their work was finished, but because they and their ponies were no longer equal to it.
Doubleday[293] was especially desirous of heading off Stand Watie who was still hovering around in the neighborhood of his recent adventures, and was believed now to have an encampment on Cowskin Prairie near Grand River.
The unionist Cherokees, inclusive of those in the Indian Brigade, were contemplating holding a national council on Cowskin Prairie, which was virtually within the Federal lines.
Then, "indefatigible in forwarding the preparations for a blow upon the camp of organization which the rebels had occupied unmolested onCowskin Prairie," he made his plans for further advance.
Starting from Cowskin Prairie on the 1st instant, we were pushed rapidly forward to the vicinity of Fort Gibson, on the Arkansas River, a distance of 160 miles from Fort Scott.
The cowskin and the paddle are doubtless serviceable; but that South Carolina planter told the truth who said to Dr.
It is equally easy and vastly more efficacious to ply judicious religious instruction than to ply the cowskin or the paddle!
The jailer gets his legal fees, the finder gets his reward, the master gets his slave, and the slave most generally receives some "moderate correction" from the cowskin or the paddle.
The men on parade at Tokio belonged either to the 4th or the 9th, and turned out with their cowskin valises strapped, but I think not packed.
The knapsack was of cowskin with the hair on, the boots were strapped soles, cut on each side, while a heavy country blanket was rolled U-shape over the head of the knapsack, fitting close to the back.
His wagon, we noticed, cut in between the herds, until it reached the lead of his cattle, when it halted suddenly, and we noticed that they were cutting off a dry cowskin that swung under the wagon.
Ned's cow died, and he hung the cowskin up in the barn to dry, too lazy to carry it to market.
On the way, feeling lazy, he wrapped himself in his cowskinand went to sleep in a barn's hay-mow.
After the cowskin was dried up, Ned started for town to sell it.
I sold my cowskinfor a penny a hair," answered Ned.
We were now in Kilronan, and as we parted they showed me holes in their own pampooties, or cowskin sandals, and asked me the price of new ones.
If time suffice, you might cross over into the valley of the Cowskinand learn the condition of forage there as well.
The road we had been travelling since early morning wound in and out among great trees, and crossed and recrossed the little stream called the Cowskin until I almost thought we had lost our way.
While we were camped on the beautiful little Cowskin River measles attacked our men, and we moved up to Carthage, where we remained about eight weeks, during which time we passed through a terrible scourge of measles and typhoid fever.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "cowskin" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
