Strikes me, too, that tomahawk came almost at the right time to save me a whole skin.
Jack's not satisfied to get back with Helen unharmed, and a whole skin himself; but he's going on the trail again.
But yet it is better to dwell in the desert with a whole skin than to writhe on a stake in the sun, even though it be over against the palace of a king.
And now, by his own confession, she languishes with a death-wound, and he is not ashamed to be standing here within the brazen gates in a whole skin!
Scarcely a dinted shield or a torn garment in their ranks; every bowman with a whole skin and a quiver full of arrows at his back.
Bjerregrav came through this phase with a whole skin, but Anker paid the penalty by losing his wits.
He had to get through the day with a whole skin, and to adapt himself to the new life; a whole new world was before him, in which he had to find his feet.
It is no other than Nilen, the wonderful little devil Nilen, of his schooldays, who was always fighting everybody like a terrier and always came out of it with a whole skin.
He was always getting into difficulties, but always came home with a whole skin.
And yet Christ, who is your Head, hath won through with His life, howbeit not with a whole skin.
And if I had loved to sleep in a whole skin, with the ease and present delight that I saw on this side of sun and moon, I should have lived at ease, and in good hopes to fare as well as others.
It is much if faith and hope, in the sad nights of our heavy trial, escape with a whole skin, and without crack or crook.
It is folly to think to steal to heaven with a whole skin.
Very happy to find I had a whole skin, which was more than I expected; rolled myself in my cloak, lay by the fire, and slept as well as I could wish.
If I escape from Portugal with a whole skin I think of going to the West Indies for promotion.
Sidenote: 17th] Returned to quarters in a whole skin.
I hope I shall see Paris before the summer is over, in a whole skin.
I think it no sin, to sleep in a whole skin, So I neither meddle nor make.
For my part, I see, if he were here again, he would rest him content in a whole skin, and never run so many hazards for nothing.
For once thou escapest with a whole skin, but see that thou leavest my land, for if ever thou settest foot on it again, thou may'st count on thy elevation to the gallows.
Now poor Thumbling was in trouble, but trouble sharpens the wits, and he sprang out so adroitly between the blows that none of them touched him, and he escaped with a whole skin.
The bean said, "I too have escaped with a whole skin, but if the old woman had got me into the pan, I should have been made into broth without any mercy, like my comrades.
But such a dull creature is so far from raising himself the least esteem by his ludicrous vein, that he has very good luck if he escapes with a whole skin.
And when a discarded minister is prosecuted for having damaged the commonwealth, let him but throw down some of the fruits of his iniquity to the hunters, and one may engage for his coming off, in other respects, with a whole skin.
Seeing it was no use trying to help a dead man, and being in no hurry to trouble St. Peter myself, I knocked down the strangler Michelotto, and making a run for it, escaped with a whole skin.
How it happened that Cesare came off with a whole skin I never knew, but he did, as I have mentioned above, and it surpasses belief.
I could not make this out; but thankful that I had escaped with a whole skin, climbed up the winding stairway of the tower which led to my chamber.
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