water-stained

I looked at my water-stained leather boots, mottled after days of tromping around campus in the snow and sleet.

Ominous Kate Brian 2011

The book has suffered much, pages are badly burned or water-stained, so it is very delicate and rarely put on show.

Sir Isaac Newton's own annotated Principia Mathematica goes online 2011

The leather binding is flaking and discoloured, the pages are ragged, spotted, and slightly water-stained.

Hunting Down a Dream 2009

At the December auction, a businessman from Jiangsu province dropped $8,300 on two dozen bottles of liquor of uncertain vintage—their water-stained cardboard packaging suggested they were old—almost four times the starting price on the auction docket.

Forget Stocks—Chinese Turn Bullish on Booze and Caterpillar Fungus Dinny McMahon 2012

I looked at my water-stained leather boots, mottled after days of tromping around campus in the snow and sleet.

Ominous Kate Brian 2011

The shadow of a seagull on water-stained wallpaper.

Maine Tina Barry 2011

Bulky iron stoves are lined up neatly in the yard behind a stairway to his second-floor office, where he pulls out a leather-bound photo album, warped and water-stained by the tsunami.

Insight: Tsunami town epitomizes Japan Inc's dilemmas Reuters 2011

After that, he took a shower and lied down in bed, staring at the water-stained ceiling, his naked body spread-eagled atop the sheets.

Talking Heads « A Fly in Amber 2010

Bulky iron stoves are lined up neatly in the yard behind a stairway to his second-floor office, where he pulls out a leather-bound photo album, warped and water-stained by the tsunami.

Insight: Tsunami town epitomizes Japan Inc's dilemmas Reuters 2011

The leather binding is flaking and discoloured, the pages are ragged, spotted, and slightly water-stained.

Archive 2009-09-01 2009