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
I've got a pricker coming that will sting his rhinoceros hide!
From A Man of Two Countries by Dowling, Colista M.
This was too much for me, so I put spurs to my pony and galloped up to the scoundrel, making as if to thrash him with my kiboko, or whip made of rhinoceros hide.
From The Man-Eaters of Tsavo and Other East African Adventures by Selous, Frederick Courteney
