leather-colored
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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
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
The wild Irishman of them all is the great crested flycatcher, a large, leather-colored or sandy-complexioned bird that prowls through the woods, uttering its harsh, uncanny note and waging fierce warfare upon its fellows.
From Birds and Poets : with Other Papers by Burroughs, John
The head not only reappeared, but on a towering leather-colored column of a neck it shot straight into the air to a height of twenty feet.
From In the Morning of Time by Roberts, Charles George Douglas, Sir
She had a skin somewhat the color of leather, and wore a leather-colored dress, gold beads, a brass-topped comb, and gold ear-drops, like upside down exclamation points.
From Aunt Madge's Story by May, Sophie
