Under the trees, there was a dead redcoat, a young boy with a pasty white skin and a face full of pimples, who had taken a rifle ball directly between the eyes.

" He had a broad face, a cleft chin, and the bridge of his nose was slightly dented ; his skin was scarred by smallpox, and his upper lip disfigured as a result of falling from a horse as a young man.

A young springbok stotting with open skin flap on its back

These young mites move about on the skin and molt into a " nymphal " stage, before maturing as adults, which live three to four weeks in the host's skin.

Vellum is a translucent material produced from the skin, often split, of a young animal.

1831 saw the success of La Peau de Chagrin ( The Wild Ass's Skin or The Magic Skin ), a fable-like tale about a despondent young man named Raphaël de Valentin who finds an animal skin which promises great power and wealth.

The trend is followed mostly by young women, and was created as a rebellion against the traditional Japanese image of feminine beauty, which includes fair skin, natural looking makeup, and conservative dress.

There are some leaves, some tree trunks, and, in the background, a river in which a chemise-wearing woman bathes ; in the foreground, two young men are seated across from a second woman who has just exited the water and who dries her naked skin in the open air.

The film itself shaped history when, on October 7, 1989, a group of African Americans became enraged after drinking and discussing the film, particularly the scene in which a white man beat a young black boy who was praying, and one of the group incited the others to beat up a passing 14-year-old white boy based on his skin color.

The FDA reported in April 2012 that young children had died or become seriously ill from accidental exposure to a fentanyl skin patch.

Monotremes, such as the platypus, lack teats ; their young drink milk directly from pores in the skin ( similar to sweat glands ), or by sucking it off of hairs surrounding the pores.

is an alternative fashion trend of blonde, pink or silver hair and tanned skin among young Japanese women that peaked in popularity around the year 2000.

Nepalese women and girls, especially virgins, are reportedly favoured in India because of their fair skin and young looks.

The newly hatched young are covered with vermiculated grey and brown down, livid blue skin showing on the naked nape and back ; the combed or pectinated claw of the adult, is represented by a horny unserrated plate.

In Samoa, subincision of the foreskin, skin located along the tip of the penis, was ritually performed upon young men, as in Hawaii, where subincision of the foreskin is reported to have been performed at age six or seven.

Adults have a featherless red face as opposed to the yellow facial skin of the young.

Despite an upbringing in a life of privilege made possible at some level by the harsh anti-union politics of his patriarchal grandfather, young Scott Nearing nevertheless developed a social conscience, which one of his biographers describes as " a burr under his skin that none of his relatives acquired and that no interpretation satisfactorily explains.

Similarly, many species lack a full marsupial pouch, instead having a simple fold of skin surrounding the teats, and providing some protection to the developing young.

Amber eyes indicate that she is someone who can connect to a computer directly by mutation ), very pale skin, and appears to be a healthy young girl for her age.

There are additional health issues in the breed whose origins are unknown at this time including varied seizure disorders found in young puppies as well as adults, Epilepsy, congenital heart problems, kidney problems and skin disorders.

Furthermore, regarding plastic surgical scars, the age of the patient is a notable factor in the timely, post-surgical healing of a skin cancer defect ( lesion ); in terms of scarrification, the very elastic skin of young people has a greater regenerative propensity for producing scars that are thicker ( stronger ) and more noticeable.

Therefore, in young patients, the strategic placement ( hiding ) of the rhinoplastic scars is a greater aesthetic consideration than in elder patients ; whose less elastic skin produces scars that are narrower and less noticeable.

One contemporary described the young Catherine as " of medium height, with an elegant figure, silky ivory skin, the eyes of a frightened gazelle, a sensuous mouth, and light chestnut tresses.

The outside of the skin is shed periodically more or less in one piece in contrast to mammals and birds where it is shed in flakes.

Since both birds are stringy, and taste unpleasant, the skin and feathers could be kept and filled with the cooked, minced and seasoned flesh of tastier birds, like goose or chicken.

Reptiles and fish have hard protective scales on their skin for protection, and birds have hard feathers, all made of tough β-keratins.

Recent genetic analysis has revealed that at least the gene for yellow skin was incorporated into domestic birds through hybridization with the Grey Junglefowl ( G. sonneratii ).

It is a chewing louce ( Mallophaga ), which feeds on the feathers and skin debris of birds.

The skin on the necks will vary in color, depending on the age of the birds.

Adult birds ' skin color can range from cream, pink, yellow, or even orange during breeding season.

The feet are covered with bare skin rather than the scales ( scutes ) that other birds have.

The skin of the head, neck and caruncles ( fleshy nodules ) becomes bright blue and red, and the snood ( an erectile appendage on the forehead ) elongates, the birds ' sneeze ' at regular intervals, followed by a rapid vibration of their tail feathers.

Examples include old feathers in birds, old hairs in mammals ( especially dogs and other canidae ), old skin in reptiles, and the entire exoskeleton in arthropods.

The Southern Ground Hornbill is characterized by black coloration and vivid red patches of bare skin on the face and throat ( yellow in juvenile birds ), which are generally believed to keep dust out of the birds eyes while they forage during the dry season.

Mammalian skin is much thicker than that of birds and often has a continuous layer of insulating fat beneath the dermis.

He protects the birds, trees, and animals of the forest ; he appears in the shape of a human with blue skin, two great horns, green hair, and a long green beard across his face, carrying a club or whip indicating his mastery of the forest.

Equally interesting are those perceptual processes that differ from, or go beyond those found in humans, such as echolocation in bats and dolphins, motion detection by skin receptors in fish, and extraordinary visual acuity, motion sensitivity and ability to see ultraviolet light in some birds.

However, recent research has revealed the absence of the yellow skin gene in the wild Red Junglefowl found in domestic birds, which suggests hybridisation with the Grey Junglefowl during the domestication of the species.

Due to their toxicity, Papua New Guineans call the pitohuis rubbish birds as they are not good for eating ; in desperate times, though, they can be consumed but only after the feathers and skin are removed and the flesh is coated in charcoal and then roasted.

The chelicerae of many species are surprisingly strong ; they are capable of shearing hair or feathers from vertebrate prey or carrion, and of cutting through skin and thin bones such as those of small birds.

Breeding birds may have a reddish or black bill, greenish yellow gape skin, loose filamentous plumes on their breast and back, and dull yellow or pink on their upper legs ( regional variations ).

Sexes are similar, but immature birds are browner, have a buff neck and throat, a pale breast streaked / mottled with brown, greyish-white legs and greyish or dull pinkish-purple facial skin and cere.

A study skin had been discovered at the Royal Museum of Scotland, explicitly referencing a book description of the Réunion birds.

According to the Latin narrative, finally, Manes on his return to Arabion was seized and taken to the Persian king, by whose orders he was flayed, his body being left to the birds, and his skin, filled with air, hung at the city gate.

A neurotoxin called homobatrachotoxin found in the birds ' skin and feathers, causes numbness and tingling in those touching the bird.