How To Use cowskin In A Sentence
- In modern times, cotton cloth has come to replace cowskins as a means of draping the body.
- They are made of hollowed out tree trunks with cowskin stretched on either end and tied with rawhide strips.
- The furnishings and artwork are simple: a white sofa, a red chair and cowskin-upholstered dining chairs. Times, Sunday Times
- For the information of my readers, I must observe that a cowskin is a large whip, made like a riding whip, out of the hide of the hippopotamus, or sea-cow, and is proverbial for the severity of punishment it is capable of inflicting. Frank Mildmay Or, The Naval Officer
- A worn cowskin jacket was draped over his skinny shoulders. LUCKY
- Paintings on cowskin also hang on the walls adding a Latin flavour to the atmosphere.
- The phrase itself expresses this antipathy; and when applied by a negro to a white man is regarded by the latter as a dire insult, and usually procures for the imprudent black a scoring with the "cowskin," or a slight "rubbing down" with the "oil of hickory. The Quadroon Adventures in the Far West
- There was the regular "negro-trader," a tall lathy fellow, with harsh horse-dealer features, careless dress, loose coat, slouching broad-brimmed hat, coarse boots, and painted quirt of raw hide, -- the "cowskin," -- fit emblem of his calling. The Quadroon Adventures in the Far West
- AN HOUR later, Kim was sitting on the cowskin couch. Vicious Grace
- The cowskin is a kind of whip seldom seen in the northern states. My Bondage and My Freedom. By Frederick Douglass. With and Introduction. By James M`Cune Smith.
