Originally no doubt, and for untold centuries, the use was confined to the hairy, undressed, fresh, or dried skins, known as pelts. 威廉·亨利·杜利特.世纪发明.
I've been a-chivied and a-chivied, fust by one on you and nixt by another on you, till I'm worritted to skins and bones. 查尔斯·狄更斯.荒凉山庄.
The skins of the larger animals were the original materials of clothing. 亚当·斯密.国富论.
The buffalo-skins, doubled in fours, were spread all along one side, and four men, with great difficulty, lifted the heavy form of Tom into it. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托.汤姆叔叔的小屋.
Some people have freckles, when others do not, because all skins are not alike, just the same as eyes are not all of one color. 佚名.神奇的知识之书.
Mr. Bell would have had it keep still at exchanging wild-beast skins for acorns. 伊丽莎白·盖斯凯尔.南方与北方.
Their dwellings are made of bark, skins and mattings of their own making, stretched on poles fixed in the ground. 佚名.神奇的知识之书.
They used skins to wrap about them, and the women probably dressed the skins. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯.世界史纲.
Their skins, therefore, are commonly good for little. 亚当·斯密.国富论.
You find it difficult enough yourself, and she is several skins thinner than you are. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯.恋爱中的女人.
I deal in cat-skins among other general matters, and hers was offered to me. 查尔斯·狄更斯.荒凉山庄.
That of calves skins, on the contrary, is greatly below it. 亚当·斯密.国富论.
A kindred sort of vessel grew up by the use of skins and hides expanded upon a wicker framework. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯.世界史纲.
We all know that leather is the skins of animals, dressed and prepared for our use by tanning, or some other process, which preserves them from rotting and renders them pliable and tough. 佚名.神奇的知识之书.
Most of the native peoples of Africa south of the Sahara, but not all, have black or blackish skins, flat noses, thick lips, and frizzy hair. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯.世界史纲.
There would be skins about. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯.世界史纲.
The country was wild, and it was a usual occurrence to see deer, bear, and coon skins nailed up on the sides of houses to dry. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔.爱迪生的生平和发明.
And I'd shave the wild-beast skins and make the wool into broad cloth. 伊丽莎白·盖斯凯尔.南方与北方.
It tells how they was stoned and sawn asunder, and wandered about in sheep-skins and goat-skins, and was destitute, afflicted, tormented. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托.汤姆叔叔的小屋.
The aborigines knew how to sharpen bones of the animals they killed to scrape, clean, soften or roughen their skins. 威廉·亨利·杜利特.世纪发明.
He also had earthenware drums across which skins were stretched; perhaps also he made drums by stretching skins over hollow tree stems. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯.世界史纲.
Hence the wooden shoes, and those made of coarse hide and dressed and undressed skins, and of coarse cloth, mixed or unmixed with leather. 威廉·亨利·杜利特.世纪发明.
The simplest species of clothing, the skins of animals, require somewhat more labour to dress and prepare them for use. 亚当·斯密.国富论.
These skins they prepared with skill and elaboration, and towards the end of the age they used bone needles, no doubt to sew these pelts. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯.世界史纲.
Two hundred skins, replied Alcibiades glibly; and named what he considered a fair price. 弗格斯·休姆.奇幻岛.
Earl Stanhope had endeavoured in vain to construct inking rollers, for which purpose he tried skins and pelts of various kinds, but the seam proved an obstacle that he could not overcome. 弗雷德里克·科利尔·贝克维尔.伟大的事实.
One may guess pretty safely that they painted these skins, and it has even been supposed, printed off designs upon them from bone cylinders. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯.世界史纲.
Its fur is short, soft and silky; the best skins being brought from Russia, Sweden and Norway and Hudson Bay territories. 佚名.神奇的知识之书.
The bladders of animals suggested it, and their skins were substituted for the bladders. 威廉·亨利·杜利特.世纪发明.
In this process the skins are steeped in a bath of alum, salt and other substances, and they are also sometimes soaked in fish-oil. 佚名.神奇的知识之书.