Leathern

Examples

• You will find the just sum in a silken purse within the leathern pouch, and separate from the rest of the gold. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• At his back was a quiver of arrows slung from a leathern shoulder belt, another piece of loot from some vanquished black. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• Their bodies were heaped together, a leathern carpet was spread over them, and on this gruesome table Abul Abbas and his councillors feasted. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• And now about business,' said the beadle, taking out a leathern pocket-book. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• He was habited in a dark brown flowing robe, which was confined round the waist by a leathern belt, and fell in ample folds to the ground. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• The hermit only replied by a grin; and returning to the hutch, he produced a leathern bottle, which might contain about four quarts. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• This formidable baron was clad in a leathern doublet, fitted close to his body, which was frayed and soiled with the stains of his armour. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• He laid down the stocking, arose from his seat, and took a leathern pouch from a hook in the corner of the van. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• I might easily have stifled it with my coat, which I unfortunately left behind me for haste, and came away only in my leathern jerkin. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
• Apollodorus, architect of the Emperor Trajan, speaks of leathern bags with pipes attached. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.

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