sheep-skin

In the morning, some fishermen saw him floating in his sheep-skin coat, and got him into their boat — the sole relater of the dismal tale.

A Child's History of England 2007

The train of wine-carts going into Rome, each driven by a shaggy peasant reclining beneath a little gipsy-fashioned canopy of sheep-skin, is ended now, and we go toiling up into a higher country where there are trees.

Pictures from Italy 2007

The good woman is reluctant to quit her occupation of baking cakes for the evening meal; but acknowledging the primary importance of securing the herds and flocks, she puts on her sheep-skin mantle; and, addressing a stranger who rests half reclined on a bed of rushes near the hearth, bids him mind the bread till her return.

The Professor, by Charlotte Bronte 2006

He shod good Winnie in such a manner that she could not sink in the snow; and he clad her over the loins with a sheep-skin dyed to her own colour, which the wild horses were never tired of coming up and sniffing at; taking it for an especial gift, and proof of inspiration.

Lorna Doone Richard Doddridge 2004

And here are the gloomy gates of the University, which have long needed doing up; I see the bored porter in his sheep-skin, the broom, the drifts of snow ....

The Wife 2004

I saw here some of the latter sort, in a small sheep-skin, which the Bedouins use in bringing it to market: it had

Travels in Arabia 2003

“Bakhshish,” 10 he obtained in reply a “Mafish;” 11 which convinced the bystanders that the sheep-skin covered a real sheep.

Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah 2003

There he bought only what had been ordered, but he could not resist the temptation to ask the price of a very handsome sheep-skin coat which attracted his attention.

The Kreutzer Sonata, and other stories 2003

You went to buy a sheep-skin coat, but come home without so much as the coat you had on, and bring a naked vagabond home with you.

What Men Live By, and other tales 2003

In the morning he had felt the frost; but now, after drinking the vodka, he felt warm, even without a sheep-skin coat.

What Men Live By, and other tales 2003