water-skin

I was interested to know the outcome of that doomed drifting of our forty great wagons across a desolate and hostile land, and I was not at all interested in what came of the mangy hermit with his rock-roweled ribs and stinking water-skin.

Chapter 12 2010

When he said no more, she unstoppered her own water-skin and settled back against a tree.

Father Swarat Matt Dennison 2010

But some other things I remember: the flames of the go-down and pier seen at a distance, and a wounded man groaning near me in the press of bodies; Ko Dali's daughter speaking to Yakub Beg, and Kutebar saying something which involved an oath to do with a camel; and a water-skin being pressed against my lips, and the warm, brackish water making me choke and cough.

The Sky Writer Geoff Barbanell 2010

“Khunsa” flexible or flaccid, from Khans = bending inwards, i.e. the mouth of a water-skin before drinking.

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

He questioned me of my case and I told him all that had betided me, whereupon he assigned me a shop and gave me a water-skin and gear.

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

Thy water-skin is worth if dear three dirhams, and the gugglets I emptied on the ground held a pint or so of water.

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

So he took somewhat thereof in a water-skin he had with him and, throwing it over his shoulder, carried it to the city, followed by a hunting dog which was dear to him.

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

The button-hole, I have said, is a modern invention; Urwah is also applied to the loopshaped handle of the water-skin, for attachment of the Allákah or suspensory thong.

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

Had she let the Zam-zam (flow without trying to control it) (or had she not scooped from that water) (to fill her water-skin), Zam-zam would have been a stream flowing on the surface of the earth.

Ahmadinejad on Israel: 30 quotes.. GayandRight 2007

During those days there was nobody in Mecca, nor was there any water So he made them sit over there and placed near them a leather bag containing some dates, and a small water-skin containing some water, and set out homeward.

Ahmadinejad on Israel: 30 quotes.. GayandRight 2007