leather-colored

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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

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

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

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

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