The foot was calfskin and the tops of morocco, and came above the knee.
Out of morocco imported from Barbary, calfskin from France, and leather from the village tannery he fashioned most beautiful boots and shoes for male and female; yes, neat and befitting they were; and how long they lasted!
This was a much heavier shoe and the calfskin of the upper was turned rough side out.
The former American Army shoe built on the Munson last and known as the russet marching shoe was machine sewed, had an upper of calfskin with the rough side turned in, and was lined with duck.
He reached for his little calfskin knapsack, opened it, and groped around in it until he found the little flask into which grandmother had put the black coffee for mother.
The boy slung the calfskin bag around his shoulder and fastened Sanna's fur-jacket about her.
Conrad laid down the calfskin bag which he had strapped on his shoulders.
Sanna took hold of the strap by which Conrad had his calfskin bag fastened about his shoulders and thus they proceeded on their way.
These two alone sat up there by the edge of the glacier and the finest presents meant for them on this day lay in little sealed packages in the calfskin bag in the rear of the cave.
For the girl whose particular worry is a nose of flaming red, let me say that in fleece-lined stockings, calfskinboots and warm overshoes lies her only hope of a less flamboyant nasal appendage.
If one can possibly afford it, calfskin boots and heavy gloves should always be purchased.
Lotuba stood, wrapped to the throat in a calfskin kaross, and looked intently at Madilenda, who returned his gaze.
Lotuba would sit on a mat, gather up two or three dozen of these bones, shake them up together in the corner of his calfskin kaross, and then fling them down on the ground after the manner of dice.
Chapter II Inger packed up some food one day in her calfskin bag.
I have had dogskin and thin calfskin worked in the same way and have found them even better, because of their greater durability.
I glued a piece of calfskin completely around it and then cut a design into it.
The best snowshoes that the writer is acquainted with are made by the Indians, and the filling is ordinarily made of neat's hide; cowhide for the center filling, and calfskin for the toe and heel.
Remember that, as previously stated, Russian calfskin is the best for tooling.
Calfskin makes a good flexible foot binding, or a suitable strip of folded cloth or canvas may be used.
Calfskin treated with acid so that it resembles marble.
Another week later, Well, I've got them--those brown and blue serge dresses and the calfskin boots.
I told him, of course, that Aunt Jane wouldn't let me; that Mary had to wear brown serge and calfskinboots that were durable, and that would wear well.
I forgot to say that, of course, I had put on the Marie clothes to come home in--though I honestly think Aunt Jane wanted to send me home in Mary's blue gingham and calfskin shoes.
But when he came to shaving by lamplight that night, and lifted out his pied calfskin vest to find his strop, the little handkerchief brought all the old remembrances, the old tenderness, back in a sentimental flood.
The Duke had put off hiscalfskin vest, the weather being too hot for it.
But if there was any doubt in her mind, granted that he had changed a good deal since she first saw him, the calfskin vest and the handkerchief would settle it.
As he put the calfskin vest away, the Duke took out the little handkerchief, from which the perfume of faint violet had faded long ago, and pressed it tenderly against his cheek.
Tomorrow he would ride forth clothed in the calfskin vest, with the bright handkerchief that he had worn on the Sunday at Misery when he won Grace Kerr's scented trophy.
The Duke put it away in the pocket of his shirt beneath the calfskin vest, the faint delicacy of its perfume rising to his nostrils like the elusive scent of a violet for which one searches the woodland and cannot find.
Taterleg brought out his brightest necktie from the portable possessions rolled up in his slicker; the Duke produced his calfskin vest.
Defn: Leather prepared from the skin of young or small cattle, intermediate in grade between calfskin and cowhide.
Defn: A bright brown polishedcalfskin binding of books, stained with a conventional treelike design.
The kid used for gloves and even for shoes, you see, is far more delicate than is the calfskin that we have been finishing.
The process, they discovered, differed very radically from the calfskin treatment with which they were so familiar.
No, calfskin is fairly even and therefore, while wet, is just put between rollers where a thin, sharp blade shaves from the flesh side any part of it that is thicker than any other.
He searched his pockets for a match, found one and drew it glumly along the sole of his high-heeled, calfskin boot with its embroidered top of yellow silk on red morocco.
In addition to this, our brother-in-law, in his endeavor to administer the estate economically, bought each of us a pair of coarse calfskin shoes.
Still they were of service, for the transaction convinced my guardian that the truest economy did not lie in the pur-chasing of calfskin shoes for at least one of his charges.
On the calfskin the pattern is to be held on the leather and the tool worked over the pattern to get the outline transferred.
How to Make a Pin Ball [314] The pin ball shown in the illustration is made of calfskin modeling leather and saddler's felt.
He had very large feet which were carefully encased in soft calfskin boots.
He had large fat feet cased in soft calfskin boots, with drab-coloured spats.
Most of these persons had gold rings on their soft white fingers and glove-like kid or calfskin boots on their feet.
We even thought of selling Calfskin Common and buying a stock that would not act that way; but my friend of the exchange advised against it.
We agreed almost instantly that there was no reason why we should not make something on Calfskin Common, though I could see that the Little Woman did not know what Calfskin Common was.
At the time, however, we caught only the echo of these things, and believed as did our friend on the exchange, that a great capitalist was in control of Calfskin Common and would send it to par.
The Stock had become to us as a personal Presence that we watched as it stumbled and struggled and panted, and dug its common Calfskin toes into things in a frantic effort to scale the market.
Calfskin Common was low then, almost as low as it has been since, and an option on a hundred shares could be secured with a ridiculously small amount--even the fragment of the Sum would be sufficient.
Dick heard Rogers throw the calfskin bag into the hollow of the tree and scrape the loose rubbish over it, and then both glided away in the shadow of the Red Hand tips.
I had set him thus conspicuous with intention, because of his calfskin binding, quite old and worn.
On the Calfskin rug at one end was the Council; Guy, seated on the skin of the Woodchuck and nearly hiding it from view, Sam on his left hand and Yan with the drum, on his right.
Now we've got a Horse skin and a Calfskin I guess we better set up a tan-yard.
I got a Calfskin in our barn, an' I know where there's another in the shed, but it's all chawed up with Rats.
He put it in the warm mud to soak there a couple of days, just as he had done the Calfskin for the drum-heads, then came to superintend the dressing of the Buffalo "robe.
Shoes--Varnished calfskin or patent leather button tops or patent leather ties for balls.
Shoes--Calfskin or russet with leggins for automobiling.
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