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
On the left arm he bore a round shield of rhinoceros hide embossed in brass; in the right hand, a pointless lance.
From The Prince of India — Volume 01 by Wallace, Lewis
This is said to be the only way of killing it, for the rest of its body is covered with a sort of rhinoceros hide, of great thickness.
From Narrative of a Mission to Central Africa Performed in the Years 1850-51, Volume 2 Under the Orders and at the Expense of Her Majesty's Government by Richardson, James
