Zagloba could distinguish accurately particular groups; he could see the red uniforms of his men, who were lying around the well, and the sheepskin coats under which the Cossacks were sleeping near the cottage.
The greater part of them were dressed in sheepskin doublets or in untanned skins with the wool outside, open in front and showing, even in winter, the naked breast embrowned by the winds of the steppe.
In front of the dwelling, beneath the shelter of the verandah, on a fleecy pile of sheepskin mats, reclined the veteran, whose swollen and naked feet were undergoing a cooling process from the palm-leaf fans of female slaves.
The hunter was clad in a tall whitesheepskin hat with a pale blue point, a tunic of camel's hair edged with velvet, and a girdle wrought in gold.
She wore hersheepskin tunic, her sheepskin cap with its red cockade, and her short, blue skirt over high boots.
A riderless horse galloped wildly past them; the sheepskin rug across the saddle marked it as belonging to a Volsenian.
The broad ribbon was of virgin white; it would show up well against either the black sheepskin of the Volsenian tunic or the bright blue of the Prince's hussar uniform.
On the third day, Sophy rode into Volseni in the sheepskin cap and tunic, a short habit of blue hiding her leather breeches and coming half-way over her long boots.
Sophy was in her sheepskin uniform; her cheeks were pale, but the Star glowed.
The sheepskin cap and tunic made him think at first that the stranger was one of the Volsenian levy; the next moment he saw the skirt.
The Slavic tribes differ in their costumes, but nearly all of them have retained the sheepskin coat, which they wear summer and winter.
Fastened to the back of the case behind the pendulum was a scrap of sheepskin as hard as wood, and upon it some hand had painfully drawn what appeared to be an elementary exercise in geometry.
White angora andsheepskin chaps were gaumed with thick clots of blood.
He wore a sheepskin vest over his corduroy coat, and one of the small boys bleated.
The riders, sheepskin chaps flapping, bright neckerchiefs fluttering, shouted and cursed and fingered their lariats.
Unlike the rest, who wore sheepskin caps, he sported a red turban, and his fur coat was trimmed with red woollen stuff.
I could not wear my sheepskin again; it was stiff, had given way at the seams, and had to be thrown away with other clothes.
Wrapped in my large sheepskin I sat cross-legged on the sledge, which glided merrily over the ice by the hour together, while Rabsang had no need to over-exert himself.
A split of a sheepskin; one of the thin sections made by splitting a sheepskin with a cutting knife or machine.
It consists of a cylinder of wood, covered with sheepskin with the wool on, or cloth with a heavy looped nap, and having a handle, or staff.
Their former clothing had gone to pieces, and they were dressed in sheepskin coats with the wool outside.
All at once Pan Michael, in a sheepskin coat and cowhide boots, came out of the main building, and, approaching the men, began to say something.
The hands of the Tartars were streaming with human blood, and their sheepskin coats had the odor of burning flesh.
Hoar-frost had settled on the hair of the horses and the sheepskin coats of the men; it seemed as though the whole squadron were dressed in white, and were sitting on white horses.
Opening his eyes, he saw the face of Novoveski, the face of Lusnia, the helmets of the dragoons, who had thrown aside the sheepskin caps of the horseherds; and all that reality was so dreadful that it seemed to him a genuine nightmare.
The dragoons always took thesheepskin coats of these men, and cleaning them over fires, put them on, so as to resemble wild herdsmen and shepherds.
The boy had pushed the car with its load of ore out to the bumper and dumped it before he saw the horseman in the sheepskin coat, the hairy chaps, and a fur cap drawn over forehead and ears.
He wore a colored flannel shirt, a sheepskin coat, and corduroy trousers thrust into the knee-high tops of old shoes.
And in the distance, so far ahead that sometimes he blended with the mist, rode the horseman in the sheepskin coat.
Suddenly Ross's eyes lighted on the wounded man's sheepskin coat, which had been cast hurriedly aside on the floor.
His sheepskin collar was turned up, meeting the cap.
Just as they left the last house behind them, a figure on horseback whirled by in a cloud of dust, and Ross recognized in the sheepskin coat and hairy chaps the stranger who had attracted his attention during dinner.
A sheepskin coat, dyed red, hung on his wasted body, a common worsted muffler of orange and green was wound round his scraggy neck, the costume being completed by breeches of yellow leather and long india-rubber boots.
Findelkind set his lantern down, braced himself up by drawing tighter his old leathern girdle, set his sheepskin cap firm on his forehead, and went toward the sound as far as he could judge that it might be.
He was a very poor little boy indeed to look at, with his sheepskin tunic and his bare feet and legs, and his wallet that never was to get filled.
They wear the black sheepskin tunic, with the wool outside, and the long stocking caps.
Some have the sheepskin tunic, and all wear the long stocking cap.
The cold was awful; on Ascension Day there was frost and snow, so that I could not take off my sheepskin and felt boots until I reached the hotel at Tomsk.
Every day one has to put down one's sheepskin with the wool upwards, under one's head one puts a folded greatcoat and a pillow, and one sleeps on this heap in one's waistcoat and trousers.
My sheepskin is a capital thing, too: it serves me as a coat and a mattress, both.
Phoebicius found his sheepskin in his wife's room," replied Petrus gravely.
They had a sheepskin half full of water with them, but resolutely refused to spare us a drop.
Ivanoff stayed the night, and slept in the tent, but we preferred doubling up in our carts, the night being so cold, that one was glad of a thick sheepskin even in the close, stuffy vehicles.
The wound was deep, and the thick sheepskin was stiff with frozen blood.
This time he brought us a child, a little half-naked girl, that he brought under his sheepskin cloak.
The edges of the strip are fringed with narrow double strips of mountain sheepskin 2 inches long, put on about 11/2 inches apart.
The hood is bound round the edge with white sheepskin and bordered with wolfskin.
From the armpit on each side runs a narrow strip of sheepskin between back and front.
A sheepskin sponge, for drying the bore after cleaning it.
The maid found my bed full of vermin which had crawled out of the boys' sheepskin coats, and the towels and toilet articles were a mass of stove-polish.
Their ill-smelling sheepskin coats were hidden in my bed, and the red garments of the acolytes, readorned by gilt paper, were thrown over the scanty clothing which remained.
Denisov in a felt cloak and a sheepskin cap from which the rain ran down was riding a thin thoroughbred horse with sunken sides.
Beside Denisov rode an esaul, * Denisov's fellow worker, also in felt cloak and sheepskin cap, and riding a large sleek Don horse.
Then came a cart, and behind that walked an old, bandy-legged domestic serf in a peaked cap and sheepskin coat.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sheepskin" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
