Scrapes

Usage examples of skins.

Persons of fair health and reasonably vigorous outdoor habits, whose skins are well bathed and ventilated, can wear properly woven cotton or linen undergarments the whole year round with perfect safety.

Not many people were outside in the midmorning sun, and those who were stared resentfully as the Skins lumbered past.

In spite of hundreds of experiments, we do not yet know exactly what these impurities are, though they are doubtless given off from our lungs, our skins, our mouths, and teeth, especially if the latter are not kept clean and sweet, but left dirty and decaying.

It is likely to be rough and tickling to most skins, which makes it uncomfortable, especially in warm weather.

The huge and wonderfully elaborate network of blood vessels that lies in and just under our skins all over our bodies is, from the point of view of circulation, second only in importance to our hearts, and from the point of view of taking cold, and of resisting the attack of disease, one of the most important structures in our entire body.

As part of the perspiration deposited upon our skins is in the form of a delicate oil, and as this oil may become mixed with dirt, or dust, and form a mixture not readily soluble in water, it is at times advisable to add to the water something that will dissolve oil.

All the Skins arrived there this morning, and my AS queried every platoon leader to do an immediate head count this afternoon when I started investigating.

Animals thudded to the ground, skins shriveled to black parchment and innards cooked, spitting out little wisps of smoke as they ossified in seconds.

Several cans clattered onto the road around the Skins, spinning around as foaming beer sprayed out of the open tabs.

Several Skins sat on the broad side door, feet dangling out above the skids as they watched the buildings below.

At the end there was only enough room for two Skins to work in the bottom, carefully picking up lumps of stone and handing them to a chain of Skins to be carried clear.

It almost hit one of the Skins, the sergeant himself no less, but he dodged back.

Locals regarded the picket of dark Skins with considerable trepidation.

Several Skins stood guard around the perimeter of the room, imposingly silent and still.

Three police officers and a couple of Skins moved to intercept them and clear a passage for Simon.