Olive and copper and ebony, their skins glistened as if oiled, and rippled with the ceaseless play of the thews beneath.
As we passed down the street the wives and the swarming children of the garrison were at the doors and windows; there were women and girls with skins as fair as any in the northland, and others that were predominantly negro.
Our attendants, friendly souls with skins of every shade and hue, slept most of the time, curled up among boxes, bundles, and slabs of beef.
And I lay upon my deer-skins all one moon of falling leaves (Who hath care for song or corn-dance, when the voice within her grieves?
She likewise brought him a great many Spoils, which her other Lovers had presented to her; so that his Cave was richly adorned with all the spotted Skins of Beasts, and most Party-coloured Feathers of Fowls, which that World afforded.
Country people make them into wine, and it used to be said that much that is sold as port had its origin in the skins of British sloes instead of Portuguese grapes.
The Holly is not greatly subject to the attacks of insects, but many of its leaves will be found to have been tunnelled between the upper and lower skins by the larva of a minute moth, one of the Leaf-miners.
A couple of blows from Waseche's axe brought the structure crashing into the snow, and they proceeded to cut the lashings of the caribou skins that served as tarpaulins.
Their colour was that of mahogany or rusty iron; their dresses, skins loosely wrapped round them and very scanty.
In addition, there were baskets formed of the same material of a coarser description, and dressed skins of animals, with mats, and spare hammocks.
Their only dress consisted of skins fastened across their shoulders, leaving bare their enormous limbs.
I thought we might have seen some of the fun going forward at Santarem; but the whites had all escaped out of the place before we passed by, and the red-skins had possession of it.
Savage as they looked, they evidently wished to treat us civilly, for they spread some skinson the ground inside one of their tents, and signed to us to take our seats on them.
And on July 30th another bateau came down from Union with six thousand beaver skins on board.
They sewed the skins with edged awls, and that cut the holes rather big, so when the hides dried and shrunk, the threads didn't fill the holes any more.
The carcases of the deer are stripped of skins and fat and the viscera are removed.
It is not common to come across a garment of this kind, as the skins of the proper or desired kinds are sometimes hard to obtain.
When the skins intended for sale are selected they are bundled up and covered with parchment skins or the subcutaneous tissue.
The tent of skins is the usual shelter during the season from the first rain until a sufficient fall of snow occurs in the early winter from which to construct an iglu gheak.
The offal of game and the hair from dressed skins mingle in one mass, which soon putrefies and creates such a stench that only an Eskimo with most obtuse sense of smell could inhabit the place.
Certain skins intended for special purposes must be smoked.
The tents and foot wear are always tanned with the smoke and this process is always subsequent to that of bringing the skins into the pliable condition.
The skins of the seals have been prepared the fall before and stored away until wanted.
The number of skinsnecessary to form a tent varies with the size required.
Large objects are carried in bags, either long or basket-shaped, made of the skins of deer legs.
From the skins having an abundance of the scars are made the tents and inferior grades of moccasins and the tops of the better class of footwear.
Our approach was heralded by the usual loud and long barking of dogs, and we found the premises surrounded by the invariable indications of a successful hunter--skins of the bear and other animals, stretched out on frames to dry.
The hair smoothed up on all sides, not very different from that of the Chinese; and though their faces were painted with white lead and vermillion, it was evident their skins were much fairer than those of the former.
Here Billali halted, and asked us to be seated, saying that the people would bring us food, and accordingly we squatted ourselves down upon the rugs of skins which were spread for us, and waited.
In this room was a stone bedstead, pots full of water for washing, and beautifully tanned leopard skins to serve as blankets.
His step-mother was sitting on the stuffed bench covered with lion-skins which was reserved for the family.
Both sexes dress alike, in the skins of animals sewed together with the sinews of the same animals, in the form of a blanket, which they throw over their shoulders, with the hair-side next to their bodies.
Their hides are also valuable for harness leathers; and the skins of the young ones make handsome coverings for trunks.
They are held sacred by the Javanese, who will not destroy them; and it is said that they treat their brown skins with equal respect, but have no compunction about eating a white man.
Their skins were of a light brown colour, smooth and glossy.
Some wore enormously large helmets of skins stretched out on canes, and ornamented with a variety of feathers; and when they wore skin cloaks, the head of the animal usually hung down behind, and had a very grotesque appearance.
All were clothed in their most terror-inspiring attire, with as great a proportion of feathers and skins as could be mustered.
Needles appear, showing that skins of animals were stitched together with sinews to provide clothing.
Swan-down and the skins of various penguins and grebes and of the albatross are used, like fur, for muffs and collarettes.
These, which are extracted from the bones and skins in the first operation in the manufacture of glue, are the raw materials of the soap, candle and glycerin industries.
The door had a padlock, and it was used as a store-house for the hides of beasts that had been killed for the sake of the skinswhen in the last stage of pleuro.
Even in the moonlight they looked deplorable objects, grimed, covered with dust and ashes, their skins and clothes scorched by the fierce heat.
Our walls shall be polished, pictures shall be hung, and mirrors everywhere; the floors shall glitter like beetles' wings, and couches and skins be all about.
The dais was covered with bear skins, and there was quite a quantity of skins on the floor instead of a carpet.
A winter hut is a hole hollowed out in the earth or snow, like a cellar; a large piece of ice serves for a door, and a lamp burns inside, where the family sleep on the skins of seals and sea-dogs.
Clad only in the skins of wild beasts, they would suddenly appear in the camp, and vanish on their swift-footed horses as soon as they were seen.
Satyrs are either elderly and bearded, or youthful; in all cases with pointed ears and horses’ tails, and undraped except for the fawn-skins which they frequently wear.
I receive two small skins of a goat, very thin and branded in the neck, from Giuseppe Gianote of Campertogno.
I receive threeskins of a chamois from Signor Antonio Cinere of Alagna, branded in the neck.
It was dated 1797, and was a leaf from the book in which a tanner used to enter the skins which his customers brought him to be tanned.
He sometimes exchanged these for a robe made of the skins of bats, as soft and sleek as velvet.
Their heads were protected by casques made either of wood or of the skins of wild animals, and sometimes richly decorated with metal and with precious stones, surmounted by the brilliant plumage of the tropical birds.
