One could hardly, even by process of thinking, realise that between these rinded and wrinkled beings love had once hung like a rosy cloud, from which one day had sprung Jenny.
"The Romance of Zion Chapel [3d ed.]"
Richard Le Gallienne
The great green-rinded melons were never wheeled into the neighbourhood of the whitecoats.
"The Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith"
George Meredith
A hard-rinded fungus that grew upon itself in peculiar mockery of the vegetation that had vanished from the earth.
"The Mad Planet"
Murray Leinster