The pattern John Bull of his century, strong as the rhinoceros, and with singular humanities and genialities shining through his thick skin.
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Thomas Carlyle, in "Sir Walter Scott" (1838), collected in Critical and Miscellaneous Essays (1857) vol. 4, p. 148William Cobbett
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"I am a rhinoceros and my skin is two feet thick"... Said on "Ramblings" from the 1991?s first Ten Club holiday single "Let Me Sleep, It’s Christmas Time"
Eddie Vedder
"Had he pushed my thighs apart right then and there, his sunned skin dark against the tallow pallor of my own nocturnal flesh, and plunged two of his thick fingers thick within me, I would have felt it apt, so natural." (p131)
Antonella Gambotto-Burke
He rushes into a fight with the horns of a bull and the skin of a rabbit.
James A. Garfield
John Bull was beat at Waterloo!
They’ll swear to that in France.Winthrop Mackworth Praed
Did you deem yourself strong, because you were able to twist the heads off civilized folk, poor weaklings with muscles like rotten string? Hell! Break the neck of a wild Cimmerian bull before you call yourself strong. I did that, before I was a full-grown man - like this!
Robert E. Howard
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