74 Verbs to Use for the Word leather

The Gauls departed with their gold, which the Romans had been compelled to pay on account of the famine that prevailed in the Capitol, which was so great that they pulled the leather from their shields and cooked it, just as was done during the siege of Jerusalem.

"Go with God," said the Count, and the messenger left the room noiselessly, for they wear no shoe-leather in this dry land.

He took the knife and began to cut the tough leather: a delicate operation, for Jeff's leg from knee to ankle was terribly swollen.

Best thing a gent can do after he's dropped his man is to climb a hoss and feed it leather.

Their commerce is in furs or skins, and ostrich feathers: they manufacture the leather called basil, in french, basane, which they prepare very well;[A11] they make this leather into pocketbooks, to which they give different forms, but in general, that of a sabretache.

" "By ," says Andy, taking a piece from his mouth to which he had been paying his addresses for the last half hour, "I'd as soon be eating leather.

Joel darted toward the center, took the leather at a hand pass, crushed it against the pit of his stomach, and followed the left end through a breach in the living wall.

He rode straight up, and a cheer came from the spectators when they saw that he was not touching leather in the midst of the fiercest contortions of Diablo.

At Autun, after high boots made of spongy leather had been placed on the culprit's feet, he was tied on to a table near a large fire, and a quantity of boiling water was poured on the boots, which penetrated the leather, ate away the flesh, and even dissolved the bones of the victim.

The sorest work is what doth cross the grain; And better to this hour you had been plying The obsequious awl with well-waxed finger flying, Than ceaseless thus to till a thankless vein; Still teazing Muses, which are still denying; Making a stretching-leather of your brain.

"Your kirtle would not be of silk, The band around it but torn leather.

Of trees and plants, the usual tinzah, and snouber or pine of Aleppo, are used for preparing the fine leathers of Morocco.

She replied that she had already done so, and that it was a pity he had wasted his shoe leather in walking back so far to remind her.

He walked away to the chair he had invited her to and stood behind it, gripping its padded leather back.

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So He gives me the leather and the tools and the handsand I must say the head, for it wants no little head to make a good shoe to measureand it is as if He said to me'There!

"Nothing on earth to hender a man from raisin' a crap off 'n itef he could once git the leathers on a good stout, willin' pa'r o' hawks or buzzards, an' a plough hitched to 'em."

Obsessed now by the one controlling impulse to get away safely, I drove the horse into the water, and as he reached swimming depth, grasped a stirrup leather, and compelled him to strike out for the opposite shore.

Stout shoes are preferable to boots always, and a wise traveller never omits to grease well his leather before and during his journey.

The soles should never be oiled, except perhaps with Linseed oil, which hardens the leather.

Prince Volscius's boots were made of love-leather, and honour leather; instead of honour, some people's are made of friendship: but since you have been so good to me as to draw on this, I can almost believe you are equipped for travelling farther than Rheims.

The males were in pareus, naked except about the waist, and they kicked the heavy leather sphere with their bare feet.

Such things cannot happen in the Northern States, where the stoppage of the trade in shoes to the South leaves leather, skill, and time for the proper shoeing of the army; but it may not yet be thoroughly understood how far the practical value of every soldier depends on the welfare of his feet, and how many sizes and proportions of shoe are needed for duly fitting a thousand men.

Not so your American wayfarer, city bred or country grown; it will be wonderful if he can lengthen a stirrup leather, ad, before allowing such an one to tighten a girth for you, you would better alight and take shelter behind a tree, and a good large tree, because he may drive your horse half frantic by his well- meant unskilfulness.

"And also 't is thangs to me you are the firs' inform', and if you are likewise the firs' to ripport" "Thank you!" cried Kincaid, letting out a stirrup leather.

74 Verbs to Use for the Word  leather