leather-colored

Example Sentences

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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

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

Grandfather Warren was a little, lean, leather-colored man.

From The Morgesons by Stoddard, Elizabeth

The lean, aged, leather-colored woman, with shiny opaque black eyes, opened the door wider and silently ushered them into the house.

From The Brimming Cup by Fisher, Dorothy Canfield

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