Originally no doubt, and for untold centuries, the use was confined to the hairy, undressed, fresh, or dried skins, known as pelts. 威廉·亨利·杜利特.世纪发明.
The types, placed upon a flat stone embedded in a movable table, were inked with large soft balls covered with pelts. 弗雷德里克·科利尔·贝克维尔.伟大的事实.
These skins they prepared with skill and elaboration, and towards the end of the age they used bone needles, no doubt to sew these pelts. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯.世界史纲.
Earl Stanhope had endeavoured in vain to construct inking rollers, for which purpose he tried skins and pelts of various kinds, but the seam proved an obstacle that he could not overcome. 弗雷德里克·科利尔·贝克维尔.伟大的事实.
Before the advent of the American, the medium of exchange between the Indian and the white man was pelts. 尤利西斯·格兰特.U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.