Not far away a plump flashy young creature was smiling down on the bootblack who was busily shining her small patent leather shoes.
Some of them had old leather grips or canvas bags, but many had no luggage at all.
As we stood all together at the door, I saw Eleanore glance into Dad's study where his heavy leather chair was waiting, and then into the room across the hall where Sue had drawn up two chairs to the fire.
Captain Jennings propped the leather cushions under his sagging arms, and as the girls turned away from the landing they heard the motor of the River Queen chug out.
The ledger slipped to the floor, tearing the spongy leather and crumbling the sere leaves.
He opened it carefully, powdered his knees with leather dust, and studied the faded entries; what flourishing, pale violet initials, what rubicund lines and endings!
He saw her mostly bent over leather boxes, into which disappeared her rich store of silk and gold brocades, shoes of purple morocco, soft white shifts.
But few men, Howat thought, were visible in proportion to the magnitude of the work; deliberately engaged, with leather shields hanging from their wrists and blue spectacles pushed up on their grimy brows.
The flame dwindled and then mounted, hanging like a fabulous oriflamme on a stillness in which Howat Penny could hear the blast forced through the Furnace by the great leather bellows.
He looked across the street and saw the rest of the fellows and I guess he must have seen the big leather box with Copley Film Corporation on it.
Right beside him was a camera, and down on the ground was a big kind of a leather box with a handle to it.
Tom Gilligan was standing there with his camera over his shoulder and his bigleather bag in his hand, all ready to go away.
Westy said, "I don't think you get the Gold Cross, but we ought to get leather medals, I know that.
Ever since you gave me those pretty little leather pouches I always carry all my money about with me, strapped round my waist.
Madame Wachner suddenly lifted her thin alpaca skirt, and Sylvia, with astonishment, saw that hung round her capacious waist were a number of little wash-leather bags.
Soon, however, the secret of his angry look was revealed, for Madame Wachner opened the leather bag hanging from her wrist and took out of it a hundred francs.
The friction of leather upon leather is five times greater thanleather upon iron.
A leather covered pulley will produce more resistance than polished or rough iron ones.
Leather well filled with tanner's grease or animal oil, if allowed to hang in a warm room for several months without handling, will dry out, become harsh, and will readily crack.
They rode silently, with no sound save the creaking of the leather and the occasional clank of a shod hoof against the flint rock.
A strap of stout leather is fastened round each leg, allowing some ten inches play.
Leather for yer lungs, and brass for yer face, and there yer are, in the 'Alls or out on 'em.
Green's first sword thrust had struck the heavy leather belt and did not enter the body.
Their saddles were made of the finestleather which the best saddle makers of England and America could find.
He went to his room, took his banjo out of its old leather strapped case and tuned it carefully.
It is very interesting, but I should enjoy it more if I was not grinding my nose against the rough side of this leather bag," whispered Dora, who lay undermost just then.
Now there is some chance of our getting there," said Flora, as they set off next day in a new Russia leather bag.
Six kisses had hardly resounded from Aunty's blooming cheeks when a most attractive box was produced from the Russia leather bag, and the wandering dolls restored to the arms of their enraptured mammas.
The end of it was that we all went in for leather goggles, with a little slit for the eyes.
In order to avoid leather, which usually becomes stiff and easily cracked in the cold, he was to use a combination of leather and thin canvas for the uppers -- leather nearest the sole, and canvas above it.
Must you wear patent leather boots, or shoes, at Frau von Baldereck's?
He who has been condemned to eat beefsteaks in this country ought not to find boot-leather a tough diet.
You know I cannot go alone to the sick, because my leather tongue is unable to recite the sentences or to wring rich offerings for the temple from the dying.
Pentaur drew his sword, and cut the leather thongs which bound the young man's hands and feet.
And his visitor slipped the leather band from her forehead, set her basket on the granite wall, and went into the kitchen-like room, wiping her brow as she seated herself in the old rush-bottomed chair.
The women wear coiffes like sunbonnets, and sabots withleather toe-pieces and straps neatly embroidered.
The Venetii had large vessels with leather sails, whereas the Romans had galleys.
No, I'll wear my best winter one, with theleather lining, that mother made.
Outside the window the upper-leather of a Wellington-boot was usually hung, pegged to a board as if to dry.
As beginners we were given each a dozen spoon-boxes to cover with white leatherand line with satin.
The Martian lay upon his back on a leather couch in a small room where they had taken him.
There was little use to tell what he wished: a cool club-room on Broadway; a deep, soft leather chair; a waiter to bring him delicate dishes and cool drinks.
Waterproof leather causes the feet of some men to perspire unduly and keeps them constantly soft.
Under arms, dismounted, white gloves and the garrison belt (or russet-leather belt and cartridge box) are worn.
If the soap used does not contain a sufficient amount of free oil the leather must be oiled to keep it pliable.
Leather cleaned with saddle soap can be polished by rubbing with a flannel cloth.
According to need, the leather is simply wiped off with a damp sponge or fully taken apart and well soaped and cleaned.
Should the shoes, leggings, or leather equipment be soaked by rain or swimming they will not become hard if covered with a light coat of neat's-foot oil applied just before they dry out.
On taking the shoes off a very little neat's-foot oil should be rubbed into the leather to prevent its hardening and cracking.
Leather can be preserved for years by the use of saddle soap and neat's-foot oil, but once it becomes hard and cracked nothing will make it serviceable.
