skin alive
Example Sentences
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I give thee, Bird, advice; If thou wouldst save thy skin alive, Let me not warn thee twice, "Grack-grack-grack-grack-grack-grack— Go on and ne'er look back!"
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And again he was reported to have, with unrelenting temper, represented to his friends in secret council, that, “It was for our safety not to spare one white skin alive.”
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Better fight dan be skin alive!”
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It was difficult to trace what it was; something all in a heap, brown naked skin; alive, as might be known by the heaving breathing.
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I'm going to skin alive the one who I catch.
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