"Three rugs, two of ox-skin, one of bear, covered the dirt floor, and the walls were decorated with various weapons - two longbows, horn-tipped, several swords and a double-edged claymore."
"He sat upon an ox-skin, which did duty for the wool-sack -- the very personification of the majesty of the law, with curled wig, and hide as black as the gown of the Lord Chief"
"Here a cowherd from La Mancha, with his long goad in his hand, clad in a kilt of ox-skin, whose antique shape bears some resemblance to the tunic worn by the Roman and Gothic warriors."