Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The skin.
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Examples
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And, by G —, I will have their skin-coat shaken once yet before they die.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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Proserpina, she will once, by the Lord G —, be overturned, and get her skin-coat shaken, if there dwell any monks near to her; for
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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And, by G —, I will have their skin-coat shaken once yet before they die.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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Proserpina, she will once, by the Lord G —, be overturned, and get her skin-coat shaken, if there dwell any monks near to her; for
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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Swinge her skin-coat as if thou wert beating on stock-fish; and let the repercussion of thy clapper from her resounding metal make a noise as if a double peal of chiming-bells were hung at the cremasters of thy ballocks.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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Swinge her skin-coat as if thou wert beating on stock-fish; and let the repercussion of thy clapper from her resounding metal make a noise as if a double peal of chiming-bells were hung at the cremasters of thy ballocks.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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His skin-coat was ragged and his fur-cap battered, but he looked alert and virile as he stood by the steaming horses 'heads.
The Girl from Keller's Harold Bindloss 1905
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Charnock's skin-coat was ragged, his mittens were tattered, and his long boots badly worn.
The Girl from Keller's Harold Bindloss 1905
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It stuck to his shaggy skin-coat, and remembering that some drills had been left near the track he felt about until he found one.
The Girl from Keller's Harold Bindloss 1905
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The men got up, grumbling, and Charnock buttoned his skin-coat and jumped down into the snow.
The Girl from Keller's Harold Bindloss 1905
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