leathery

• Her pulse became leathery, almost a spinning bean pulse. —  THE YEARS OF RICE AND SALT - Kim Stanley Robinson
• Did Edna, this pushy, leathery, and leather-garbed old intruder, imagine she and the other two were “the type of people” he wanted? —  Magazine - Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine - 2007-03 - March April
• The face was hard and leathery, the eyes gone, the mouth open in some kind of rictus But worse than that, this one was burned Richard had been told to expect radiation burns, but he wasn't sure how they'd show up. —  Magazine - Asimov's Science Fiction - 2007 - Issue 02 - February
• And so we left our boots behind, strapped on crampons, and ascended that wall of liver-spotted skin You set the spike in one of the pale canals between the leathery islands. —  Aeon One
• Robert Duvall is back on TV, this time in AMC's inaugural original movie -- a two-part western starring Duvall as a leathery, whiskey-swilling, aging cowboy named Print and a slightly miscast

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