Sentence examples for parchment skin from inspiring English sources

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Edgeworth is practically a museum-worthy example of what is connoted by the word "professorial": at fifty-six, hashas white hair and parchment skin, he wears tweed, and he speaks with great precision.

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Here are samples of parchment (skins of goats, sheep and deer); several kinds of traditional paper (including ahar — paper coated with alum and egg whites); display cases with the sources of pigments like pomegranate peel or dried insects; and videos on the creation of pens and inks and manuscripts.

Certain machines, housed in a warehouse up the side of the hill, remove the parchment skins from the beans.

In designing it, Spence drew on an audio-tactile phenomenon known as the "parchment-skin illusion".

3 Put the fish on the baking parchment, dark skin side up, and grill for 8-10 minutes without turning.

Sautéed daurade arrives perfectly cooked and with a spicy, parchment-thin skin; equally good are charred scallops paired with pine nut-and-currant vinaigrette.

Ms. Treisman, apparently a bit of a sensitive flower beneath that parchment-colored skin and curtain of dark hair, memorized the Internet conversation she monitored.

There is a touchingly human softness and vulnerability here, the parchment-like skin of the figure giving off a tender, warming glow.

With his wild eyes and sharp bones, his parchment-thin skin stretched across his face like a drying animal hide, Mr. Dafoe has always made for an unsettling screen presence.

A waxed paper packet full of silvery Baltic herrings, small and slender; a basket full of tiny, first-crop new potatoes, with parchment-colored skin so thin you could rub it off with your fingers; and a profusion of dill, chives, parsley and basil growing in little pots.

It is a spectacle few Holocaust survivors dreamt they would witness 70 years after the end of the Second World War: in a courtroom in the picture-postcard German town of Lüneburg, a 93-year-old man with thin parchment-like skin hobbles towards his seat near the judge with the help of a rollator.

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