He left two sheepskins to as many bishops, and one haircloth shirt to two favorite disciples--they had been his armor against the visions.
As we proceeded up the river the weather grew warmer, and the native clothing of sheepskins the Russians had used was cast aside.
They proceeded to Quintuhual's toldo, one of them being a connection of the chief, and there dismounted, unloading their horse of two sheepskins filled with rum.
They had not respected Foyel's messenger bringing him stores from Valdivia, and at last forcibly annexed two sheepskins of rum, on which occasion some fighting ensued.
Sheepskins are grained in imitation of other leathers, and these imitation-grained leathers are generally found to be in a worse condition than any of the other bindings, except, perhaps, some of the very thin calfskin.
The wool of the first-named is used for spinning and weaving, and sheepskins with the wool left on are worn as winter garments.
In winter sheepskins take the place of the coarse linen tunic.
It was a vast assembly, chiefly of men, in their homespun and sheepskins and woollen stockings, cross-gartered with hemp from ankle to knee.
And the vast assembly of rude men in sheepskinsand in homespun looked on and listened, all silent and solemn, all worshipful of law and reverent of its forms.
It is a carriage hap made of sheepskins white as the snow, and from some new breed of sheep surely; for the wool is longer and silkier than ever I saw.
The signs of the fur stores, with their odd pictures of peasant coats and fashionable mantles, add an advertisement of black sheepskins which precisely resemble rudely painted turtles.
After a good supper, we had sheepskins laid near the fire for us to sleep on.
They made a bed of sheepskins close to the fire, for Captain Cheap, and laid him upon it; and indeed, had it not been for the kind assistance he now met with, he could not have survived three days longer.
The Cossack who was to be our chaperone was a sturdy, ill-favoured fellow, in the wildest combination of sheepskins conceivable, but he seemed to know his work, and was none the worse for being silent.
It has its patches of grass, on which herds depasture, followed by men clothed in sheepskins and goatskins, and looking as savage almost as the animals they tend.
Nestor's son Pisistratus at once offered his hand to each of them, and seated them on some soft sheepskins that were lying on the sands near his father and his brother Thrasymedes.
With this he got up and made a bed for Ulysses by throwing some goatskins and sheepskins on the ground in front of the fire.
All along the cow-track, where the fire lipped it, the sheepskins rose and fell.
We all provided ourselves withsheepskins and began our attempt to beat out the fire.
All night long the wind held, and the sheepskins in the after-hatch, where I was sleeping, took in water.
We purchased sheepskins and laid in a stock of mutton, and on the 25th once more made a start.
We sat on the old wooden bedstead with its pile of sheepskins for bed-clothes and wrote our diary.
One was conscious of nothing but the thud of the sheepskins and the figures of the workers leaping in and out of the smoke and flame.
There is no need to describe the last half-hour; only, when the yellow circle of fire had given place to a smouldering black ring, we were ready to lie down on our blackened sheepskins and feel neither glad nor sorry but only wearily tired.
Sheepskins are stretched and pegged out upon it for tanning or drying, and the characteristic Zuñi dome-shaped oven is frequently built upon it.
Before noon twosheepskins were spread one upon the other before the song-priest.
Sheepskins and goatskins dried in the sun were commonly used, what remained of their wardrobes being reserved for special occasions.
When at length our thirst was satisfied, horses were brought to us, serviceable and docile little beasts with sheepskins for saddles and loops of hide for stirrups.
The monkey-like Hottentot sat in front and directed the camel, while I accommodated myself as best I could on the sheepskins behind.
I got my sheepskins all ready during the day, 'cos I saw that you was idling round doing nothing, and I 'spected that the evening would be selected to begin work.
Then I have no time to waste, as the funeral undertaker said, when told that the body in the house would come to life if left unburied," cried the ghost, beginning to strip off his sheepskins with nervous haste.
Of course Mr. Brown and myself remonstrated against such a measure, as we considered that his life would not be worth one of his sheepskins if met by the gang.
They had not gone a quarter of a league when at the meeting of two paths they saw coming towards them some six shepherds dressed in blacksheepskins and with their heads crowned with garlands of cypress and bitter oleander.
The course of meat finished, they spread upon the sheepskins a great heap of parched acorns, and with them they put down a half cheese harder than if it had been made of mortar.
I had intended to go to Phalsbourg in a week, to buy sheepskins for trimming some shoes: I will go to-morrow.
And then the good man came forward to the light, his hat pushed off his face, and his roll of sheepskins on his back.
Indian and Persian sheepskinsare very goaty, the herds being allowed to roam about together so much.
Commercially valued, the upland sheepskins sell at prices varying from 2-1/2d.
If desired the pickled sheepskins could even be worked into a cheap white leather without further tanning.
Evidently somebody higher up wants us to have this chance to see how sheepskins are prepared and I, for one, am not sorry for I've no very clear idea.
But Peter need not have feared any such calamity, for after lunch he and Nat were given a lesson in tanning sheepskins and were told they were to work at that task until further notice.
Another thing the boys learned about sheepskins which was very different from the treatment of calfskins was that before the slats could be tanned they had to be put through a powerful press and have the grease squeezed out of them.
We were conducted up a steep, ladder-like staircase to a small gallery, with a low front only a foot high, with no seats but sheepskins on the floor, where we were expected to curl ourselves up in Turkish fashion.
Moreover, we were not the sole occupants of the gallery: the sheepskins were full of them, and I began to think that if the dervishes did not soon begin to howl, I should.
The men of these parts, moreover, clothe themselves in sheepskins during the winter, and wear sandals, fastened with leathern thongs.
The wildest of them had for covering a cloak of sheepskins sewn together, and their weapons were a bow and poisoned arrows.
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