Word: skin
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...knees was found to be encased in hair cloth. This cover was so fastened together as to admit of being readily taken off for his daily scourgings, of which the portion inflicted on the day previous to his death was still apparent in the stripes on his skin. These marvelous proofs of austerity were increased by the sight of innumerable vermin with which the haircloth abounded-boiling over with them, as Dean Stanley describes it, like water in a simmering caldron...
...shoulder or throat. Suddenly a small tuft of hair seems to spring from the big man's head. "Halt!" cries his opponent's second. The swords are instantly stuck up by the seconds and the umpire steps up to examine the head. It was a close shave, but the skin is whole, so they start again. The men are now getting terribly excited. Breathless and panting they slash away at each other; and it is no easy matter for the seconds to stop them at the word "halt." - London Society...
...cleanly, - that when they come in hot and exhausted from a foot-ball game and wish to bathe their bruised limbs in tepid steam and ease their wounds, nothing but the coldest of water can be had to solace them water so cold that it parches the skin and cracks the muscles and sends a man tottering out to the bleak entry prematurely aged like an Arctic explorer. Not so with the rugged stoic who delights, like Caesar's Germans, to lave his sturdy limbs in ice water; the streams of Socrate have turned hot ere he reaches the bath...
...there was a true breaking open of the shell of dogma and a participation by the college thought in the more universal currents which were sweeping through the world. It was an opening of the truth to the more general influence of truth. It was as if a skin full of water which had been floating in the ocean had burst, and the water in it had flowed out and the water of the mighty ocean had flowed...
...varsity eleven appeared yesterday in their new uniforms. The suit consists of a dark crimson, thickly knit jersey with a white "H," a canvas jacket, crimson stockings and belt, and breeches of thick mole-skin of a creamy white. These are the features of the uniform. They have a thick hair mattress padding on each knee and each hip, and cling close to the leg just below the knee. The uniforms altogether present a good appearance, although they are now a little too clean...