They were leathery as he remembered, covered in a downy fur that glowed where it was kissed by the few shafts of light piercing the gap in the drapes.
The old woman was a gnarled and leathery personage who could don, at will, an expression of great virtue.
Storm-clouds swept over Jimmie's face, but he turned from the leathery old woman and plodded on up-stairs.
In passing through the halls he came upon the gnarled and leathery old woman who possessed the music box.
The leaves are pale green in colour and beautifully spotted with yellow; in form, spear-shaped, leathery to the feel, and very glossy.
A plant recognised by the long, egg-shaped and sharply-pointed leaves, leathery in touching, and of a very dark green colour.
It is easily recognised from the leaflets being in two or three pairs, with an odd one at top, in colour of a glossy dark-green, and the leaves of a leathery nature.
She sat under the big eucalyptus which clapped its leathery hands softly.
But they were always too hungry to care much what they ate; the most leathery damper, the most difficult mutton was pleasant eaten out of doors in the faint smoke of the gorse fires.
If you hear of anything--" He nodded, with beatified aspiration in his leathery old face.
The anterior pair are of a horny or leathery consistence, but always much shorter than the abdomen.
The Orthoptera include all those forms of insects which have four wings, the anterior pair being of a leathery nature.
The larvæ are footless "grubs," generally with a soft body, but sometimesleathery or even nearly horny.
Major Parker smiled, and a little bit of red seeped up into his leathery face.
The officer, in spite of his leathery tan, looked very pale.
The pileus is corky, leathery shells, with the upper surface marked with rough zones of various shades of brown; margin yellowish.
The species under this genus are leathery plants, having the stems lateral and sometimes wanting.
The pileus is fleshy, leathery or membranaceous, and usually cushion-formed.
Common name for young, green, cracked, leathery or rubbery low-grade store cheese fit only to bait traps.
Firm, leathery rind, soft interior like Brie or Camembert; round, five to six by twelve inches in diameter.
And Senor Fuentes, puffing out his leathery cheeks, had inclined his head slightly to the left, letting a thin, bluish jet of smoke escape through his pursed lips.
Involucre of the fruit open to the globose nut, the two leaf-like bracts very much cut-toothed at the margin and thick and leathery at the base.
At the same time a queer, leathery squeaking came to the engineer's borrowed ears; he concluded that the machine was being sorely strained by the motion.
He had a thin, leathery face with an exaggerated nose, stretched out as though from sniffing for curios in dusty dim corners.
She sniffed delightedly the leathery smell, sat bolt upright with her chin in the air.
It has a hard, thick, leathery rind of a rich purplish-yellow colour, externally rough and marked with ten very distinct longitudinal ribs or elevations.
The fibrous husk renders the fruit light and the leathery skin prevents water-logging.
My heart leaped fiercely at the sight of his seamed leatheryface and dab-of-putty nose.
One (A, page 413) gives an example of very large siphons united together and protected by the tough, leathery integument.
In the first place, the siphons are enormously large, are united, and are surrounded by a leathery epidermis.
Egg-capsules of /Fulgur/ are leathery coils of angular disks adhering by one edge to a connecting-band of a similar texture.
Some construct tough, leathery capsules which are strung together in various patterns.
Living specimens have a tough, leathery epidermis covering at least the body-whorl.
In some species it is covered by a great number of calcareous spicules or granules which are embedded in the leathery mantle tissue.
From the same reason it is easy to perceive why the rite has found such general observance among the Africans, who are as noted for long and leathery prepuces as for their slim shanks.
The other creature could boast of none of these things; but in their stead it had formidable as well as useful claws, and was covered with a leathery hide that rendered it immune to assaults that he could not hope to withstand.
Crocodiles too were bursting through their tough, leathery egg-shells, but in smaller numbers.
All lay, with the exception of the Sturgeons, large and leathery ova, and in this approximate pretty closely to the Reptilia.
Thus they are Vorticellæ surrounded by a shell, and may be compared to ova, in whose coriaceous or leathery shell calcareous granules are blended, as in the eggs of the Crocodiles and Tortoises.
Four wings, with longitudinal and numerous transverse veins, the anterior pair being mostlyleathery in texture; eyes mostly smaller than head.
The stalk is mostly woody; the foliage either aciculiform or leatheryin texture, and never pinnated.
It is applied with a brush, or the pot still leathery and tough is dipped in the glaze.
When turned in the right leathery condition, the shavings curl off like peel from an apple and all tool marks are easily removed.
Color, pale yellow or buff; smooth in young specimen, fissured, spotted, and leathery at maturity.
He lay down after this vehement talk, as though exhausted, wiping the sweat from his brow where it gleamed in the little furrows of leathery skin.
Wherefore he yawned in the face of the immemorial East and moved toward the lowered gangway to meet the first mate, a lean and leathery mariner, whom he hailed with boisterous outcry.
Nivin looked leaner and more leathery than ever, and his eyes had lighted with an almost fanatic gleam which was only partly due to arrack--that potential drink.
These, like the headfish (Mola mola) are protected by a leathery skin.
The heart has a contractile arterial cone containing several rows of valves; the intestine has a spiral valve; the eggs are large, hatched within the body, or else deposited in a leathery case.
These have a leathery and wrinkled tunic, to which algae and hydroids freely attach themselves.
It loses its form and has the appearance of a hollow, leathery sac, the body organs being developed in a tough tunic.
