Like an autumn cicada sloughing off its skin.
The cicada has to slough off its skin before it can fly.
"But the ox, with its skin and its flesh and its waste, was burned with fire outside the tent-circle, as the Lord gave orders to Moses."
In Ancient Egypt the mummy of a nobleman would probably have its skin colored, its neck filled out and man? Made eyes fixed in the eye sockets.
She had a crown of ringleted hair as purple-black as the grapes and her body seemed to be bursting out of its skin.
Niu Lang had no way to heaven. And the cattle told him that he could make shoes using its skin after it died and wore the shoes to go to heaven.
The village sleeps quietly, the vague breathing tide wets every inch of its skin, the quiet willow shadows are graceful with lane-like dreams, the love is general with closed eyes and murmuring, hanging wisps of affection, bowing their heads shy and silent.
S777 sheds its skin spinner to make room for man.
When a leopard dies, it leaves its skin; when a man dies, he leaves his name.
In their model, the radius is the distance from the centre of the animal to its skin.
It looks much like the bamboo straw on the earth. It is dark yellow in color and has rough but very neat patterns on its skin.
The Boeing 737-300 in question was only 15 years old when its skin peeled open along a riveted lap-joint while flying above 34,000 feet (just over 10,000 metres) with 118 passengers on board.
A snake sheds its skin.
"as ultraviolet rays can cause sunburn and even skin cancer, a hippo's sweat therefore protects its skin like a sunscreen."
The earthworm has no lungs; it breathes through its skin. Some earthworms have as many as ten hearts.
The elephant's body was grey and black, its skin was very thick, and there was a big mouth under its bright eyes. The elephant's eyes were lined with a large ear, like a lotus leaf.
Memmie, touched with compassion and guilt, ran in search of some frogs. When she found one, she stripped off its skin and spread it over the girl's brow to staunch the wound, binding the dressing in place with the thread from the bark of a tree.
Pitaya is a large red fruit with green tentacles on its skin.
Once I've discarded my face like a rattlesnake shedding its skin, a new, healthier, more attractive man will emerge, and Angelina and I will adopt more kids.
And in every place he abandons he leaves something vital, it seems to me, and starts his new life somewhat less encrusted, like a lobster that has shed its skin and is for a time soft and vulnerable.
The avocado is colloquially known as the Alligator pear, reflecting its shape and the leather-like appearance of its skin.
"But the flesh of the ox and its skin and its waste parts are to be burned outside the circle of the tents, for it is a sin-offering."
The Thorny Devil, or Moloch horridus, gathers all its water through channels in its skin.
The soil beside the stream is wet and tender, just like a baby who has just given birth, with amniotic fluid hanging on its skin. It is forbidden to touch a little.
It indicates the time of day by the colour of its skin, which is dark by day and pale by night.
No matter how much fresh bodywork you threw at it, you'd still find a Fiat 125 beneath its skin.
It's unique formula combines natural colloidal oatmeal, long known for its skin-soothing properties, rich emollients and cooling menthol to provide long-lasting moisturization and soothing itch relief.
A potato baked whole and served in its skin.
The snake sheds its skin once a year.
