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Example sentences for "untanned"

Lexicographically close words:
untameable; untamed; untangle; untangled; untangling; untarnished; untasted; untaught; untaxed; unteachable
  1. His high boots reached well over his thighs, his head was closely shrouded in a hood, and his face was hidden by a mask, made of untanned leather--which left the mouth only quite free.

  2. He held out his leg, and Pierre, dutiful and obedient, took off the long boots of untanned leather which protected the slashed shoes and silk trunk-hose beneath, against the mud of the streets.

  3. It was the tall figure of a man dressed in dark tightly-fitting clothes, wearing high boots to the top of his thighs, a hood over his head and a mask of untanned leather on his face.

  4. I seldom used a bedstead unless in camp; thus my couch was quickly and simply made upon the hard rock, softened by the addition of an armful of green boughs, upon which I laid an untanned ox-hide, and spread my Scotch plaid.

  5. I could not help thinking how completely they were at the mercy of the natives at that moment, had they chosen to attack them; the trader's party were lying under their untanned ox-hides with their empty guns.

  6. The youth's lower limbs were clothed in closely-fitting leather leggings, and a pair of untanned leather shoes, laced with a single thong, protected his feet.

  7. Nearly all the men wore shoes of untanned leather, and caps of the same material, or of rough homespun cloth, resembling in form the cap of modern fishermen.

  8. True," muttered Glumm, stooping to fasten the thongs that laced the untanned shoes on his feet.

  9. Master Decimus Saxon in my father's black Utrecht velvet and untanned riding boots looked a very different man to the bedraggled castaway who had crawled like a conger eel into our fishing-boat.

  10. My boots, too, may perchance be useful--my riding ones of untanned leather.

  11. Most of them wore plain sword-belts of untanned hide, but the weapons themselves, with their broad felt hats and black cloaks, were laid under the benches or placed upon the settles which lined the walls.

  12. They brought out more and more armor of untanned elkskin, and the people began to make ready for battle.

  13. Untanned elkskin was formerly used as armor by the Indians.

  14. From the girdle of untanned skin a double string of black horn beads, each large as a walnut, dropped to his knees.

  15. At first sight the thing seems impossible, but by a bold man it can be crossed either in the untanned Kashmir shoes or with the naked feet.

  16. The guest was a long, thin man, clad in the Cossacks' fur lined military cloak, under which his untanned riding-boots showed red in the moonlight.

  17. The sun and the bracing sea air had made ruddy his fair skin, even to his firm, round throat and his thick arms, that were left bare by his rough coat of untanned buckskin.

  18. They wore their rough hunting clothes -- loose vests of leather, homespun kilts, and untanned buskins.

  19. As we advanced the Mal Pais became more broken: the 'bad step' was ugly climbing, and we often envied our men, who wore heelless shoes of soft untanned leather with soles almost as broad as they were long.

  20. As for his bed, he would not have one, but slept in the vestibule on an untanned hide, and I threw a cloak over him myself.

  21. Ulysses made himself a bed of an untanned ox-hide in the vestibule and covered himself with sheep skins; then Eurynome threw a cloak over him.

  22. His dress consisted of a cloth jacket confined at the waist by a leathern belt, and full trousers with leggings of untanned leather.

  23. They wore long dark coloured gowns, and sheep-skin coats: rough boots of untanned leather protected their feet, and by their side hung wallets to contain their food.

  24. It was a small quarto, bound in sheepskin, with corners and back of untanned leather.

  25. In the course of our eager investigations we suddenly came upon a great pile of strongly-bound loads, each wrapped in untanned cow-hide and bound tightly with wire.

  26. In a tall armchair of untanned leather, at the head of the capacious board, Monna Valentina sat herself, Gonzaga taking his stand at her elbow, and Francesco fronting her, leaning lightly against the table.

  27. From a pouch made of untanned leather, which hung in front like an apron, he took two small eggs of a greenish hue, spotted with black.

  28. There was nothing peculiar in his dress, except a huge pair of loose boots, of the thickest untanned leather, that reached considerably above his knees, and from frequent immersion in the tide had assumed a deep brown hue.

  29. However strongly made, they are not durable; for the changeableness of the weather quickly rots the ropes, which are made of untanned leather.

  30. The head-band and reins are commonly composed of narrow slips of untanned calf or sheep-skin, plaited together, and ornamented with silver buckles.

  31. On their feet they wear sandals of untanned leather, which merely cover the toes, and are fastened round the ancle.

  32. Each load consists of from fifty to seventy-five pounds of metal, which is carried in a very irksome and inconvenient manner in an untanned hide, called a capacho.

  33. As it is, they must take their untanned goat-skin bags and collect the luke-warm water which they find in dirty pools, and take it home for drinking purposes!

  34. In the East they churn the butter in bags made of untanned goat-skins, having the hair inside.


  35. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "untanned" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.