rhinoceros hide
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Women in politics, Roosevelt said, need ‘‘to develop skin as tough as rhinoceros hide.’’
From New York Times • Jul. 15, 2015
That girls with deep brown suntans will have skin like rhinoceros hide in 20 years.
From Time Magazine Archive
He then took out the rhinoceros hide, wrapped the bird inside it and burned the whole thing.
From "When the Sea Turned to Silver" by Grace Lin
They wear a shield of bullock or rhinoceros hide hanging down on one side of their camels.
From Narrative of a Mission to Central Africa Performed in the Years 1850-51, Volume 1 Under the Orders and at the Expense of Her Majesty's Government by Richardson, James
Eager questions with regard to this latter animal resulted in the Zulu going off next day and returning late in the evening with the rhinoceros hide, which was the very thing Grenville wanted.
From Into the Unknown A Romance of South Africa by Fletcher, Lawrence
