leather-colored
Example Sentences
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Very beautiful the town-bred "school-ma'am" looked to those grimy, sweaty fellows, superb fellows, too, physically, with bare red arms and leather-colored faces.
From Prairie Folks by Garland, Hamlin
I hated to leave her to the leather-colored wife of the old gardener, and lingered until the sharp voice came from the distant house-door, calling, 'Veel-hel-meeny,' as the twelve-o'clock bell summoned the Community to dinner.
From Solomon by Woolson, Constance Fenimore
His chain was now taken by a different sort of man; a very lean, spare, hard-bitten little man, with bright dark eyes and a leather-colored face.
From Jan A Dog and a Romance by Rockwell, Norman
Such a beautiful brute!' her gray eyes suddenly flashed so powerfully upon me from under her bushy, black brows, that the whole withered, leather-colored face seemed ten years younger.
From A Divided Heart and Other Stories by Heyse, Paul
All the books were leather-colored except one; that was bright red, and was called the Ladies' Album.
From Shapes that Haunt the Dusk by Howells, William Dean
