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
Corned-beef in her hands is a discovery and her sauces are such that a bit of roast rhinoceros hide tastes like the tenderest of squab when served by her.
From Mrs. Raffles Being the Adventures of an Amateur Crackswoman by Bangs, John Kendrick
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)
