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

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

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

From The Arena Volume 4, No. 20, July, 1891 by Flower, B. O. (Benjamin Orange)

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 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