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

Before the great, lofty, wide door were ranged in two crescents several Baluch and Persian mercenaries, armed with curved swords and targes of rhinoceros hide.

From How I Found Livingstone; travels, adventures, and discoveres in Central Africa, including an account of four months' residence with Dr. Livingstone, by Henry M. Stanley by Stanley, Henry M. (Henry Morton)

I have bound the stock of Oswell's old gun with rhinoceros hide.

From The Albert N'Yanza, Great Basin of the Nile by Baker, Samuel White, Sir