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sheepskins
1. Maggot infested sheepskins adorned the sagging railing
2. While the newcomer was still washing, the female servant led by the hand both Heracles and Boecia, still naked and with their tunics over one arm, to a small room poorly illuminated by a single torch and where four large sheepskins had been laid side by side on the tile floor
3. Heracles looked down sadly at Boecia, who had laid down on one of the sheepskins and was waiting for him
4. “We had only a few blankets between us to keep ourselves warm, and a couple of sheepskins on the floor,” he explained, with no apparent trace of bitterness
5. They went about in sheepskins and goatskins, destitute, persecuted and mistreated—the world was not worthy of them
6. Yet despite the coagulating slime beneath their feet, the Moscow girls still persisted with their Spanish high heels pointed at the toe, with their dublyonka sheepskins and Italian fashion house leathers
7. He was cordially welcomed by the goatherds, and Sancho, having as best he could put up Rocinante and the ass, drew towards the fragrance that came from some pieces of salted goat simmering in a pot on the fire; and though he would have liked at once to try if they were ready to be transferred from the pot to the stomach, he refrained from doing so as the goatherds removed them from the fire, and laying sheepskins on the ground, quickly spread their rude table, and with signs of hearty good-will invited them both to share what they had
8. The course of meat finished, they spread upon the sheepskins a great heap of parched acorns, and with them they put down a half cheese harder than if it had been made of mortar
9. They were going along conversing in this way, when they saw descending a gap between two high mountains some twenty shepherds, all clad in sheepskins of black wool, and crowned with garlands which, as afterwards appeared, were, some of them of yew, some of cypress
10. MRS BELLINGHAM: He addressed me in several handwritings with fulsome compliments as a Venus in furs and alleged profound pity for my frostbound coachman Palmer while in the same breath he expressed himself as envious of his earflaps and fleecy sheepskins and of his fortunate proximity to my person, when standing behind my chair wearing my livery and the armorial bearings of the Bellingham escutcheon garnished sable, a buck's head couped or
11. Through the frosty vapor could be seen workmen in short sheepskins and soft felt boots crossing the rails of the curving line
12. Flying low in the hot Gulf air, they took off most of their clothes, and flying and bombing, from 25,000, they wore sheepskins and masks, for the temperature was 40 degrees below zero, and the air was thin
13. They slipped into sheepskins and boots and adjusted the oxygen masks, fitted the rubber tubes to the copper supply tubes
14. Joe was out of his seat slipping on his sheepskins
15. Several of the convicts who had been sentenced by their comrades, for special violence, to be beaten till they were half dead, were lying on the platform-bed, covered with sheepskins till they should recover and come to themselves again; knives had already been drawn several times
16. Our sheepskins were intended to be worn for three years
17. “And what a lot of these people are flocking to the town nowadays; it’s awful,” he said, turning round on the box and pointing to a party of peasant workmen who were coming towards them, carrying saws, axes, sheepskins, coats, and bags strapped to their shoulders
18. The tall, silent, broad-shouldered, muscular ferryman, dressed in sheepskins, threw the ropes and moored the raft with practised hand, landed the carts that were on it, and put those that were waiting on the bank on board
