"Thin-skinned" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... artifices. The life of the unfortunate victims, pilloried in the Dunciad and accused of the unpardonable sins of poverty and dependence, was too often one which might have extorted sympathy even from a thin-skinned poet and critic. ...
— Samuel Johnson • Leslie Stephen
... To kill a thin-skinned animal neatly, such as a tiger, lion, large deer, etc. etc., the bullet should be pure lead, unmixed with any other metal. This will flatten to a certain degree immediately upon impact, and it will continue to expand as it meets with resistance in ...
— Wild Beasts and their Ways • Sir Samuel W. Baker
... them unco weel—they cost me a' my few savings, mair by token; an' mony a braw fallow paid for ither folks' sins that tide. But my puir laddie here's no made o' that stuff. He's ower thin-skinned for a patriot." ...
— Alton Locke, Tailor And Poet • Rev. Charles Kingsley et al
... the state your message offended," said Shelby, quietly. "Personally I'm not thin-skinned, as ...
— The Henchman • Mark Lee Luther
... spread out his fine hands, palms uppermost, and flexed them; then, turning them, he laid them flat upon the table and again spread out his fingers. They were notable hands—shapely, supple, strong as steel, the thin-skinned fingertips as delicate and sensitive of touch as the antennae he was used to handling. They were even more capable than of old, because of the exquisite work they had been trained to accomplish, work to which only the most skilled lapidary's ...
— Slippy McGee, Sometimes Known as the Butterfly Man • Marie Conway Oemler
|
