rhinoceros-hide

I have seen men and women beaten by whips and clubs and fists, and I have seen the rhinoceros-hide whips laid around the naked torsos of black boys so heartily that each stroke stripped away the skin in full circle.

FOREWORD 2010

A slow and ponderous man, of the drayman order of human architecture, dressed in a corrugated suit and bibbed apron, apparently a composite of door-mat and rhinoceros-hide.

No Thoroughfare 2007

He wore his rhinoceros-hide belt, too, the one Ras Lijasu had given him.

Kushiel's Avatar Carey, Jacqueline, 1964- 2003

The Zuagirs marched across the court until they were halted on the pillared portico of the palace by a guard of thirty Hyrkanians, resplendent in plumed helmets of silvered steel, gilded corselets, rhinoceros-hide shields, and gold-chased scimitars.

Conan the Wanderer Howard, Robert E. 1974

I have seen men and women beaten by whips and clubs and fists, and I have seen the rhinoceros-hide whips laid around the naked torsos of black boys so heartily that each stroke stripped away the skin in full circle.

Foreword 1917

His bubbling wit, brilliant conversation, and good-cheer were for his own fireside, first; and all that cutting, critical, scathing flood of invective was for the public that wore a rhinoceros-hide.

Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great Hubbard, Elbert, 1856-1915 1916

The huge negro produced the rhinoceros-hide whip, and went to his task.

The Leopard Woman Stewart Edward White 1909

And finally, bringing up the rear, marched a small, lively, wizened little fellow, dressed as nearly as possible like the white man, and carrying as the badge of his office a bulging cotton umbrella and the _kiboko_ -- the slender, limber, stinging rhinoceros-hide whip.

The Leopard Woman Stewart Edward White 1909

Cazi Moto glided up and handed him the _kiboko_, the rhinoceros-hide whip, the symbol of authority.

The Leopard Woman Stewart Edward White 1909

Behind us, all abreast marched the four gunbearers; then the four syces; then the safari single file, an askari at the head bearing proudly his ancient musket and our banner, other askaris flanking, M'ganga bringing up the rear with his mighty umbrella and an unsuspected rhinoceros-hide whip.

The Land of Footprints Stewart Edward White 1909