This rugged hide makes Komodo dragon skin poorly suited for making into leather.
ISTANBUL — Among the many curious objects on display at a new exhibition in an upscale shopping mall here is an old Nokia cellphone with a rugged plastic skin, accompanied by a tag from an anonymous donor that reads: "It lasted 300 days too long.
This captivating landscape is a just a humble stalk of celery, so we can't help but wonder how some rugged turkey skin or colorful cranberry sauce would turn out under her zoomed and enhanced gaze.
When seized it throws its body round the arm that holds it, and by a contractile and reversed action of its body grates over the surface of its enemy with the rugged spines of its skin, like a rasp.
The photos capture this harsh trek: against the rugged, rocky landscape, the men's weathered skin peeks through their fur coats and hats; the birds look dinosaur-like, with wild eyes, but sit calm and alert on the hunters' arms.
You'll also find antler-handled cutlery; zebra-skin chairs; chic suede jackets; rugged country boots, and these Moser highball glasses.
His skin was tanned and he had rugged features with a strong, cleft chin and clear, blue eyes.
Fink's spin involves her falling for a rugged homeless man whose "stare was holdin" and "ripped jeans, skin was showin".
Even polished and smoothed down with time, and deepened in color by the warmth and skin oils of the wearer, turquoise retains a rugged, boulder-like quality, its blemishes like the hard-won scars of its formation from ancient volcanic rock.
For despite struggling to paw or claw meekly at his opponent, he somehow retained enough rugged bloody-mindedness to stay upright as howitzers rattled into his skin and shattered bone.
