skin alive
Example Sentences
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Baxley looked at him and then looked back at me and said, “The rangers didn’t want those Indians. It’s John here they wanted to skin alive.”
From The New Yorker
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!"
From Project Gutenberg
Tell your daughters," he said, "that we will skin alive any girl we find with an American.
From Time Magazine Archive
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.”
From Project Gutenberg
Better fight dan be skin alive!”
From Project Gutenberg
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