rhinoceros hide
Example Sentences
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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
He looked to me sort of sick and pale—that is, as pale as his sun-burned rhinoceros hide would ever turn.
From Cape Cod Stories by Lincoln, Joseph Crosby
The shield itself was of course of rhinoceros hide, and upon it was a piece of lion’s skin, with numerous raised bosses of gilt-filigree work, which appeared to me to be of Indian workmanship.
From March to Magdala by Henty, G. A. (George Alfred)
