A polite nation, the French are reputed to be; but always underlying this good repute has been the suspicion that the politeness serves mainly to cover self-interest; that it is simply an integument, a rind.
"A Midsummer Drive Through The Pyrenees"
Edwin Asa Dix
There was now considerable inflammation of the integument, over a large part of the sinus, the skin appearing tense, and the small blood vessels distinct and purple.
"Report on Surgery to the Santa Clara County Medical Society"
Joseph Bradford Cox
Their seed-vessels are covered with a very tough integument, capable of resisting decomposition; to which circumstance we may attribute their abundance in a fossil state.
"The Student's Elements of Geology"
Sir Charles Lyell