leather-colored

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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

Very beautiful the town-bred "schoolma'am" looked to those grimy, sweaty fellows, superb fellows too, physically, with bare red arms and leather-colored faces.

From Other Main-Travelled Roads by Garland, Hamlin

Then a leather-colored mountain of a back heaved itself up through the smother and a colossal form, that would make the hugest elephant a pigmy, came ponderously forth upon the beach.

From In the Morning of Time by Roberts, Charles George Douglas, Sir

Perianth.—Pipe-shaped; the lobes of the lip leather-colored within.

From The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits by Parsons, Mary Elizabeth

But it contained a little figure that he readily recognized; a boy about fourteen years old, who wore a high collar, a stiff cravat, a leather-colored livery jacket, and knee-breeches of the same material.

From The Children of the World by Heyse, Paul