The hunters on seeing this rushed out, and instantly began flaying the animals, and cutting them up.
Hence the reason for flaying dead bodies seems to have been to efface, by removing the skin, the tattooed marks which would have acted as a fatal bar to the entrance of the ghost into paradise.
Although the loss due to bad curing and flaying is very great, it is quite small compared with the damage caused by natural defects.
Several other systems of improved flaying have been devised, and some of them patented, but very few have been adopted on a practical scale.
Although it cannot be expected that the English butchers will readily change their prejudice against modern abattoirs, they are slowly but gradually improving the flaying process in view of the high prices paid for perfect hides.
In fact, a mechanical method of flaying has been invented in Paris, and is used extensively at the public abattoirs, by which hides are removed from cattle without a single mark or scratch.
The remaining part of the hide can be easily removed with the ordinary butchers' flaying knife or with a heavy hammer of special design.
The losses due to badflaying and curing in the United Kingdom are mainly attributable to the butchers' preference to kill these beasts in their own back-yard rather than in a public abattoir.
The chief faults are in flaying and curing, but there are other important defects due to natural causes.
Only their arrival at the hotel stemmed the rising tide, but, once up in their aerial suite of rooms, the last bell hop tipped out, then broke the storm wave, flaying them all.
Stoning to death and flaying alive have been employed, occasionally, since the days of Stephen and Bartholomew.
We are now flaying our friends and submitting to be flayed ourselves, every few years or months or days, by the aid of the trenchant sunbeam which performed the process for Marsyas.
We occupied the forenoon in flaying a number of dogs.
The meat itself, as it lay there cut up, looked well enough, in all conscience; no butcher's shop could have exhibited a finer sight than we showed after flaying and cutting up ten dogs.
He was inhaling the smoke of a cigarette, and with every puff mechanicallyflaying the horses.
It was a strange awakening, yet he had not entertained thoughts of rebellion, despite the fact that he had not liked the flaying rope, the soft digging heels, the absence of bridle and saddle.
Then came the flaying of a rope and frantic urging of heels.
And suddenly, flaying his pained senses, understanding flashed upon him.
Blinking back her tears, she turned to one side and reached for the flint flaying tool, with which to cut off two short pieces of hemp rope, measuring carefully.
All recollections of the flaying of the bird, and of the lady's adjuration to heaven, had given way to the enthusiasm of the noble feeling to obey the dictates of that eternal and immutable code of honour.
Your father, like the other West Indians, is well acquainted with the flaying of negroes, and you have been following his example with the Jamaica lungies.
He doubted, and he did not doubt the lady; but he heard the boy use the word, and he took up the impression that he was, by some mistake on his part, to be punished for the flaying of the bird.
The bet upon the maternity was not an effect of the flaying of the bird.
What crazy power mocked me into the belief that all this that has befallen me was connected with the flaying of a bird?
You have been at this trade of flaying before," said he, looking sternly at Dewhurst.
Both, for a time were in the road, flayingup a cloud of smoke like a cyclone ripping out its path.
I have known it a long time; the worthy redskins will probably amuse themselves with flaying me alive, roasting me at a slow fire, or some other politeness of that sort.
I can hear him now, with that war-note in his voice, flaying them with his facts, each fact a lash that stung and stung again.
I can never forget the flaying he gave them at the end: * This figure arises from the customs of the times.
After the flaying was complete, what was best to do with the carcass?
Each of these servants did as he was bidden,--this one flaying the animal, that one bringing the water.
At Athens a man was punished for flaying a living ram.
Even such details as the beheading or flaying alive of captives are presented with gruesome realism.
In a bas-relief discovered at Khorsabad, a man was represented flaying a prisoner with a semicircular knife.
After firing this shot he vanished in a cloud of blanket, and the skipper, reluctantly abandoning a hastily-formed resolve of first flaying him alive and then flinging him overboard, sat down again and lit his pipe.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "flaying" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
