wash-leather

Here we paused, and he made a short speech, mixed in Gaelic and English, which was received with further applause, particularly when he reached into his sporran and tossed a small wash-leather bag to the landlord, instructing that worthy to serve whisky so long as it lasted.

Sick Cycle Carousel 2010

Kuzma Vassilyevitch put on a smart new uniform, took into his right hand a pair of new wash-leather gloves, and, sprinkling himself with lavender water, set off.

Lieutenant Yergunov's Story 2006

He would then hold out his gold-headed malacca cane to be taken from him, and slightly spread his hands, gloved in bright wash-leather, to indicate that his coat, blue, lined with squirrel and collared with astrakhan, should be removed.

On Forsyte 'Change 2004

She remembered dressing, and seeing the moon; Andrew holding his plate too high at dinner; being depressed by something William had said; the birds in the trees; the sofa on the landing; the children being awake; Charles Tansley waking them with his books falling — oh, no, that she had invented; and Paul having a wash-leather case for his watch.

To the Lighthouse 2002

“How nice it would be to marry a man with a wash-leather bag for his watch,” she said, for that was the sort of joke they had together.

To the Lighthouse 2002

She is marrying a man who has a gold watch in a wash-leather bag!

To the Lighthouse 2002

Paul slipped a beautiful gold watch out of a little wash-leather case to show her.

To the Lighthouse 2002

But she would have liked to go, had it not of her thought (how lucky to marry a man with a wash-leather bag for his watch) she went with a smile on her lips into the other room, where her husband sat reading.

To the Lighthouse 2002

Reise opened his purse and took from it a small wash-leather pouch, which he handed to Garric.

Lord of the Isles 1997

His wages in silver coins were in a wash-leather pouch hung from his neck on a thick strap.

Lord of the Isles 1997