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Example sentences for "goatskin"

Lexicographically close words:
goatherd; goatherds; goatish; goatlike; goats; goatskins; goatsucker; goatsuckers; gobbets; gobble
  1. It would be better if we filled some goatskin sacks with water, in case we lose sight of the stream," he suggests to me.

  2. As a precaution we took a couple of goatskin vessels full of water, and filled all the bottles and cans.

  3. This house is the next best thing to mother," said Edgar, with boyish heartiness, as he stood on the white goatskin with his back to the Olivers' cheerful fireplace.

  4. Stretch out your feet as lazily as you like on my new goatskin rug.

  5. Each monk wore a close fitting tunic and a white goatskin upper garment which was never laid aside at meals or in bed, but only at the Eucharist.

  6. The Arabs came out of their goatskin tents, and surrounded the soldiers, asking many questions in the native tongue, for the soldiers were themselves natives.

  7. The date palms of the little fertile spot they had just left, and the circle of goatskin tents, stood out in sharp relief against the yellow sand--a phantom paradise upon a phantom sea.

  8. Fill up that goatskin before we start," said Reeves.

  9. This man was carrying a small goatskin water bottle, but in his fall he had burst it, and the precious liquid was utterly wasted.

  10. Gerald, as the correspondent carefully retied the mouth of the goatskin when Hugh had drunk.

  11. Marche-a-Terre looked at her stupidly; his eyes seemed to enlarge; tears rolled down his hairy cheeks upon the goatskin which covered him, and a low moan came from his breast.

  12. For instance, in the Njála there is mention of a man i geitheðni, in goatskin dress.

  13. In summer he wore rough hempen shirt and trousers; in winter goatskin and rough homespun wool.

  14. At our service in front of the hotel were waiting two mortals in goatskin coats, with scarfs around their ears and French military caps on top of the scarfs.

  15. Here is a ragged, oriental-looking Negro from some desert place in interior Africa, filling his goatskin with water from a stained and battered fountain built by the Romans twelve hundred years ago.

  16. XII What did Gilly of the Goatskin do in the Townland of Mischance?

  17. Then Gilly of the Goatskin and the King of Ireland's Son met together under a bush.

  18. After that the Churl of the Townland of Mischance began to be afraid that Gilly of the Goatskin would be too wise for him, and would get away at the end of the three months with his wages, a guinea, a groat and a tester, in his fist.

  19. Gilly pulled at the strings and the goatskin fell on the ground.

  20. Gilly of the Goatskin put the egg on the table and wished that he might see himself as he had seen himself in the river.

  21. They sat at the fire, and while the Old Woman of Beare spun threads on a very ancient spindle, and while the corncrake, the cuckoo and the swallow picked up grains and murmured to themselves, Gilly of the Goatskin told them the Unique Tale.

  22. Gilly of the Goatskin knew that he had only to hold the Crystal Egg in his hand and wish, to get all he could think of.

  23. VIII Gilly of the Goatskin wished for wide windows in his house and he got them.

  24. I'll give you a name," said the Old Woman of Beare, "but you must stand before me and strip off the goatskin that covers you.

  25. They were in the middle of the play when Gilly of the Goatskin rushed into the barn.

  26. Gilly of the Goatskin crept from under the cradle, put his bow resting on the bottom that was now turned uppermost, took up some of the rods that were on the floor and then shouted at the Hags.

  27. And the story as Gilly of the Goatskin told it follows this.

  28. Gilly of the Goatskin is counting the horns for me now, and when he finishes counting them I will let him tell the Unique Tale.

  29. A part of the goatskin coat was caught in one of the wheels.

  30. Bridou, but they recognised master's body by his goatskin cloak; it was ground under the wheels of the mill at the pond; they found half his coat in one of the wheels; one of the pockets contained several letters addressed to master.

  31. Finally he cursed in Spanish and paused to pull his goatskin jerkin closer.

  32. As the covering fell away, the fresh goatskin tops of three new drums sparkled white in the candlelight.

  33. Instead he gazed into the distance, his face a mask, and methodically pounded the taut goatskin with ever increasing intensity.

  34. For myself, garbed in goatskin with the hair outside, with alligator sandals on my feet and with whiskers at least six inches long, I have no doubt that I resembled the beau ideal of a cave man.

  35. I saw each of them give a rapid look at her goatskin suit.

  36. Then took a goatskin fill'd with precious wine, The gift of Maron of Evantheus' line (The priest of Phoebus at the Ismarian shrine).

  37. Come to the ale, a pigskin of brown ale, a goatskin of yellow.

  38. Brown ale and yellow; yellow and brown ale; a goatskin of yellow.

  39. The dark and stolid Sarah lying on her stomach on the white goatskin rug, was "the queer one" of the family.

  40. Sarah, abandoning blue prints for her favorite goatskin rug on which she flopped in an attitude more comfortable than graceful.

  41. First, however, they took our goatskin overcoats away, saying they were too good to be worn by savages.

  42. The mode of procedure was to volley at them, shooting, if possible, the men with oars, but not despising a burst goatskin bag.

  43. We floated the wounded men and ammunition and rations for men and horses across on some of those strange goatskin rafts that go round and round and any way but forward.

  44. Every one of my men was provided with a small tanned goatskin stripped from the animal (like a stocking from the leg) and secured at one end like a bag.

  45. Wine, grain, everything else, is stored or carried in goatskin bags.

  46. The goatskin sleeping-bag was too heavy to take along; it would have added much to our comfort, of course, but there was now no night cold enough to be very disagreeable so long as we could have fire, and of that we were assured.

  47. To keep from freezing, Pitamakan hurried on to camp, while I followed slowly with the goatskin and head.


  48. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "goatskin" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    buckskin; ermine; fur; hide; pelt