mole-skin

Finally, for the one wit who feels the urge to say it - yes those clothes in the picture above do look suspiciously like the clothes I might wear on a night out minus the moustache and no, no moles died to make that mole-skin style suit.

Archive 2005-10-01 Kerron Cross 2005

The sky looked as black and soft as a mole-skin covered with a delicate dew of stars.

My Family and Other Animals Durrell, Gerald, 1925- 1956

The two former relied on over-frocks of strong cotton, and a kind of white night-caps, while La Salle wore a heavy shooting-coat of white mole-skin, seal-skin boots reaching to the knee, and armed with "crampets," or small iron spikes, to prevent slipping, while a white cover slipped over his

Adrift in the Ice-Fields Charles W. Hall

The time for the landing of the _Sirius_ was drawing near, and the castaways upon Ganymede had donned their only suits of earthly clothing, instead of the makeshifts of mole-skin, canvas, and leather they had been wearing so long.

Spacehounds of IPC 1927

She wore a long mole-skin coat and a smart little red turban.

Quill's Window George Barr McCutcheon 1897

Ordinary sticking-plaster is not the best for this purpose, though in an emergency it might be used; much better is the so-called mole-skin plaster, which is much thicker, and does not require moistening before being applied.

Health on the Farm A Manual of Rural Sanitation and Hygiene 1896

The mole-skin plaster, which is used in making the splint just referred to, may be obtained in rolls of any width from all druggists; and as the plaster keeps practically indefinitely, it should be in the medicine-closet of everyone living at a distance from skilled medical aid.

Health on the Farm A Manual of Rural Sanitation and Hygiene 1896

The same corduroy or mole-skin trousers, dark coat, wide-brimmed hat, and home-made shoes which he was accustomed to wear in every-day life on the farm were good enough for a hunting expedition, and he needed and yearned for nothing better.

With the Boer Forces Howard C. Hillegas 1895

Got out of the mole-skin in the very nick of time.

The Magic World Gerald Spencer Pryse 1891

The young man who had just returned home had on a flannel shirt, a pair of mole-skin trowsers, and an old straw hat, battered nearly out of all shape.

Harry Heathcote of Gangoil Anthony Trollope 1848