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Sentences ending with skin

The shoes he wore were those of an adult, but cracked and split, revealing the cotton stocking and here and there the skin. [9]
At first she was startled, for he was clean-shaven--the fire had burned his beard to the skin. [11]
My first reward was a bath of cold, icy-cold sea-water, which was poured over my head out of a full skin. [10]
We have an upper and lower skin. [5]
The first juice that runs of itself from the grapes comes from the heart of the fruit, and tastes of the pulp only; when the grapes are squeezed in the press the flow betrays the flavor of the skin. [6]
It did not stir, however, and he soon found that it was only a stuffed skin. [5]
She was like some rare flower of the field, alert, gentle, strong, intrepid, with buoyant face, brown hair, blue eyes and cream-like skin. [11]
As often as she lingered by the spring she wetted her stubborn hair to smooth it, and washed her face with as much zeal as if she thought she should succeed in washing the dark hue out of her skin. [10]
Look after your own skin. [11]
This water is not good for bruised places and abrasions of the skin. [5]

Short sentences using skin

Grayish skin, with purple areas. [5]
Unwholesome fish-belly skin. [5]
Bronzed skin! [6]

Sentences containing skin two or more times

The lower skin moves all the time and the upper skin moves when we do. [5]
He heard the loud echo of his feet upon that hollow plateau of rock, with convex skin of stone laid upon convex skin, and then suddenly the solid rock which gave no echo under his tread, where Rhodes lies buried. [11]
She has given him the thin skin, the meagre skin which is stretched over the remaining one-fifth--the naked bones stick up through it in most places. [5]
And so I am but bones, now, with a rough and frowsy skin humped and cornered upon my shrunken body--that skin which was once so glossy, that skin which she loved to stroke with her hand. [5]

More example sentences with the word skin in them

Grandmother, why is your skin so rough? [10]
Hang fast to your honours by the skin of your teeth, my lord. [11]
Then this in your eye, that if ye'll bring an army, I'll fight till the skin is in rags on me bones, whin it's only men that's before me; but woman--and that wan! [11]
I would ask you to stay to the dance to-night if your skin were only white, instead of red. [9]
The skin was wrinkled, but shone, the hair spread white, the nose almost met the chin, the mouth was all malice. [11]
Some apes, however, would probably declare that they could and did admire the beauty of the coloured skin and fur of their partners in marriage. [1]
The leg was worn away almost to skin and bone, but the knee itself was swollen with inflammation. [11]
At his last word Dingan, who had been standing abstractedly listening, as it were, swung round on him with a muttered oath, and the skin of his face appeared to tighten. [11]
They were sick with the evil skin, and starving. [11]
He even disputed with his uncle on the tints of her skin, on seeing him paint it in, showing a fine eye for colour. [11]
And one night when we was wet to the skin and the Boschs was droppin' shell all around us we got the word. [9]
When found they were but skin and bone. [5]
I knew the way through the mines outside, and just escaped by the skin of my teeth. [11]
And so Cynthia was transformed into a city person, though her skin glowed with a health with which few city people are blessed. [9]
His fair skin was tanned by the weather, and he wore his own wavy hair powdered, as was just become the fashion, and tied with a ribbon behind. [9]
And her skin was glowing from the exercise. [9]
Her fair skin was fairer than ever, but it was delicately faded, giving her a look of pensiveness, while yet there was that in her carriage and at her mouth which suggested strength and will and new forces at work in her. [11]
One of them was "disfigured with a great skin, his head hung around with little skins of weasels and other vermin, with a crownlet of feathers on his head, painted as ugly as the devil. [4]
So, when I walked into the room, and Bridget, turning back, closed the door and left me alone with its tenant, I do believe you could have grated a nutmeg on my skin, such a "goose-flesh" shiver ran over it. [6]
Every skin, every utensil, every pitcher and bowl and pot and curtain, had been with them at one time or another, when it became of importance and renowned in the story of their days and deeds. [11]
Then she grabbed up the basket and slammed it across the house and knocked the cat galley-west; and she said cle'r out and let her have some peace, and if we come bothering around her again betwixt that and dinner she'd skin us. [5]
Colorless skin, with two conspicuous moles. [5]
There was my Tophet, and a lean chestnut, with a long propelling gait, and not an ounce of loose skin on him. [11]
Her dark skin took on a curious reddish radiance, her eyes were lustrous and her figure beautiful. [11]
Finally it occurred to them that their naked skin represented flesh-colored "tights" very fairly; so they drew a ring in the sand and had a circus--with three clowns in it, for none would yield this proudest post to his neighbor. [5]
Macavoy drew back to the wall, dropped the musk-ox skin to the ground, and stripped himself to the waist. [11]
They had undressed to the skin in the midst of the thickest woods and were performing Paradise and the Fall of Man, as they had probably just been taught in their religious lesson. [10]
I've no doves to shelter, and my skin is thicker than yours. [10]
Now he began to shave, digging his fingers into my countenance to stretch the skin and bundling and tumbling my head this way and that as convenience in shaving demanded. [5]
It enables him to see with the mind's eye through the opaque tissues down to the bone on which they lie, as if the skin were transparent as the cornea, and the organs it covers translucent as the gelatinous pulp of a medusa. [3]
He invited her to rest on the couch on which was spread a bright giraffe's skin, but she preferred to walk up and down, for her heart was beating violently. [10]
The best way to manage--in fact, the only sensible way--is to disguise repetitiousness of fact under variety of form: skin your fact each time and lay on a new cuticle of words. [5]
They were sweet to look upon, as smooth as skin, but fitted ten time as close. [5]
They cannot afford to have large graveyards, the grass skin is too circumscribed and too valuable. [5]
Jim told me to chop off the snake's head and throw it away, and then skin the body and roast a piece of it. [5]
Something came which, to a degree, transformed them, as the salts of the water and the air permeate the skin and give the blood new life. [11]
Blue veins showed through the clear white skin, and the long, silky, silvery hair still flowed in unthinned waves round his massive head, bald only on the crown. [10]
A. I'll skin this Meisterschaft to the last sentence in it! [5]
I cut the thick skin, which easily falls apart and discloses the luscious quarters, plump, juicy, and waiting to melt in the mouth. [4]
Minutes passed as they studied, felt, and admired the skin, the hunter proud of his son, the son alive with a primitive passion, which inflicts suffering to get the beautiful thing. [11]
This was not the veld, and he was no longer the veld-dweller with skin like the rhinoceros, all leather and bone and endurance. [11]
The colour of the skin and hair are plainly correlated, as is the texture of the hair with its colour in the Mandans of North America. [1]
The face of the Mudir was like a wrinkled skin of lard, his eyes had the look of one drunk with hashish. [11]
It had called the man back to earth--he was no longer a great animal, and the rock a monster with skin and scales of stone. [11]
He pulled forward the loose skin on the puma's breast and showed them the scar of a knife-wound above the one his own knife had made. [11]
She had seen the Gaul quit the court during the time of evening-prayer with a few soldiers, two of whom carried after him a huge coffer, out of which rose the handle of a mighty cauldron, and a skin full of water, and various vessels. [10]
The face shone, the eyes burned, and the piquancy of the contrast between the soft illuminating whiteness of the skin and the flame in the eyes had fascinated many more than Ingolby. [11]
Students disputed whether the conjunctiva extended over the cornea or not, and worried themselves over Gaultier de Claubry's stratified layers of the skin, or Breschet's blennogenous and chromatogenous organs. [3]
The clasp of the chain, by which the skin was suspended, as well as that of the gold belt which circled the Imperator's body above the hips, was covered with rubies and emeralds. [10]
The hands of the brave, strong Spartan trembled as he seized the roll, and his fixed gaze on its characters was as if it would pierce the skin on which they were inscribed. [10]
No one supposes that the nakedness of the skin is any direct advantage to man; his body therefore cannot have been divested of hair through natural selection. [1]
The form was that of a man, miserably clad and begrimed with smoke, which, perhaps by its contrast with the natural colour of his skin, made him look paler than he really was. [12]
The Nubian replied that everything had been considered; but, to gain time, she must beg Barine to let her colour her skin and curl her hair while she was talking. [10]
I'm laying for that Encyclopedical Scotchman--and he'll need to lock the door behind him, when he comes in; otherwise when he hears my proposed tariff his skin will probably crawl away with him. [5]
Nearly every stroke takes off the skin and draws the blood, and a dozen will make the back a ditch of murder. [11]
But by the swill o' me pipe, and the sweat o' me skin, I'll drink the blood o' yees, Trader, me darlin'. [11]
The assistant was supporting another patient, who died soon afterwards; he felt the pungent heat upon his skin, and was taken immediately with the symptoms of typhus. [3]
Thanks to a strong pigment in my skin, derived probably from Scotch-Irish ancestors, my colour was fresh. [9]
Colder and tighter stretched the skin over his face; colder and harder grew the polished butts of his guns; colder and steadier became his hands as he wiped the clammy sweat from his face or reached low to his gun-sheaths. [13]
Please loosen the straps for me a little, here, round the ankle, my skin is so thin and tender that a little thing hurts me which you would hardly feel. [10]
There were no statues, as in the baths of the heathen; the walls were decorated with bible texts in gold letters, and above the divan, which was covered with a giraffe skin, there was a crucifix. [10]
Sweat o' my soul, my skin crawls like hot glass! [11]
He discovered, by some nearly invisible sign about his skin, that the poison of leprosy was in him. [5]
Her skin as soft as Lemster wool, As white as snow on Peakish Hull, Or swan that swims in Trent. [4]
Her skin is so transparent that one can almost count her heart-beats by the flushes they send into her cheeks. [6]
He is still smooth-shaven, his skin is clear, and his eye is bright, for he lives largely on bread and milk, and eschews stimulants. [9]
We are all small and bony, and he is tall and slim; our skin is dark and his is rosy; our speech is hoarse, his as sweet as a song. [10]
This one was skipping about the upper great heights of the mosque --skipping across empty yawning intervals which were almost too wide for him, and which he only just barely cleared, each time, by the skin of his teeth. [5]
Cutis cenea, bronze skin, they call it sometimes--extraordinary pigmentation--a little more to the light, if you please--ah! [6]
From your smooth skin there I could strip those rags, and call upon them all to look at you--my wife--a felon's wife; mine to have and to hold--to hold, you hear!--as it was sworn at the altar. [11]
There was the skin of one hanging upon a tree by the route we would take in the morning, a buster, he skinned him yesterday. [4]
There, on the skin of a huge bear trimmed with blue cloth, lay Hadrian's favorite Antinous. [10]
Her shining dark skin looked ashen grey, her high forehead, surrounded by tangled woolly locks, was dripping with perspiration, and her thick lips were pale. [10]
And had my skin been thin, I had left ere now. [9]
Tawny-haired, amber-eyed, full-throated, skin as white as a blanched almond. [6]
Thee is not skin and bone. [11]
She dropped some silver into the folds of the gazelle- skin and waved the Gipsy away. [11]
The organs of sight and hearing, the teeth and hair, the colour of the skin and of the hair, colour and constitution, are more or less correlated. [1]
Even in this short illness, Kilquhanity's flesh had dropped away from him, leaving him but a bundle of bones, on which the skin quivered with fever. [11]
Presently the man shook his head sorrowfully, and covered up the small disfigured frame again, but this time with a tanned skin of the caribou. [11]
At the banquet she put off her shoes altogether, as the men did; hiding her feet at first however, and not displaying them till she thought the marks left on her tender skin by the straps of the sandals had completely disappeared. [10]
A mortal disease sets in, which keeps pace with the shrinking skin, and his life and his talisman come to an end together. [6]
It did not seem worth while to make trouble about a little thing like that; so I swung round to his view of the matter and saved my skin whole. [5]
At this same season the beak and naked skin about the head frequently change colour, as with some herons, ibises, gulls, one of the bell-birds just noticed, etc. [1]
True, he often says things which make your skin creep, and frequently broods mournfully over his own thoughts. [10]
It was the same with her velvet skin, which even at Nuremberg had many a time brought to men's minds the maid in the tale of "Snow-white and Rose-red. [10]
He is the same silent, sallow person as when Jethro first took a mortgage on his farm, only his skin is beginning to resemble dried parchment, and he is a trifle more cantankerous. [9]
Forty times I've said if you didn't let that jam alone I'd skin you. [5]
She slipped past rugged pinnacles, like buttresses to the island, here trailed with vines, valanced with shrubs of unnameable beauty, and yonder shrivelled and bare like the skin of an elephant. [11]
After twenty miles' ride he was dry as a bone, after thirty his skin was moist but not damp, and there was not a drop of sweat on the skin-leather of his fatigue cap. [11]
He skinned the rabbits, and gave the dogs the one they had quarreled over, and the skin of this he dressed and hung up to dry, feeling that he would like to keep it. [13]
He was wont, quoth he, to take good care not to risk his skin for other folks, but in this matter it seemed to him not too dear a bargain. [10]
But he was quickly reassured when she turned her gaze on him; and if, in alarm, he uttered a plaintive cry, she bounded to him at once, and, with every demonstration of affection, licked his mottled skin till it shone again. [4]
If there should prove to be one real living free-State Democrat in Kansas, I suggest that it might be well to catch him, and stuff and preserve his skin as an interesting specimen of that soon-to-be extinct variety of the genus Democrat. [7]
These tentacles are prolongations of the true skin, and therefore are not homologous with the stiff hairs of the former species; but it can hardly be doubted that both serve the same purpose. [1]
We found a pond of salt water close by and scraped up a raft of salt around the edges, and loaded up the lion's skin and the tiger's so as they would keep till Jim could tan them. [5]
Grafton was sallow; Philip was a peculiar pink,--not the ruddy pink of heartier natures, like my grandfather's, nor yet had he the peach-like skin of Mr. Dix. [9]
A soft light pervaded the place, perhaps filtered through the parchment-like white skin of the Tent, for it seemed to have no other fountain. [11]
Long chains of pearls and glittering gems hung on the sallow skin displayed by the open neck of her dress, and on the false, reddish-yellow curls rested a roll of light-blue velvet decked with ostrich plumes. [10]
Pierre had thrown over the Irishman's shoulders the great skin of a musk-ox which he had found inside the stockade. [11]

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