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  • Also invest in a calf-leather briefcase after you've acquired a suit and shoes.

    Wardrobe Essentials For The Young Professional Lauren Sherman 2008

  • Also invest in a calf-leather briefcase after you've acquired a suit and shoes.

    Wardrobe Essentials For The Young Professional Lauren Sherman 2008

  • The calf-leather set, including cosmetics case and garment bag, is measured to fit precisely in the car's trunk.

    Consumer Products With Car Cachet 2007

  • Sarah drank in his lean length: the faded blue jeans and low Western boots; the light brown calf-leather jacket fitting snugly over his denim shirt, hinting at the strength of the muscles beneath.

    Give Us Forever Peale, Constance F. 1982

  • Two or three had large loose boots of calf-leather, and almost every one was begirt with a long rapier, which was suspended by leathern thongs, to a plain belt of buff, or of black leather.

    Peveril of the Peak 1822

  • Two or three had large loose boots of calf-leather, and almost every one was begirt with a long rapier, which was suspended by leathern thongs, to a plain belt of buff, or of black leather.

    Peveril of the Peak Walter Scott 1801

  • His family dressed his mortal remains in precious calf-leather boots with nailed soles.

    Latest Articles 2010

  • a calf-leather satchel to school in Hereford, as when I wore a lambskin hood in Oxford; or whether I have the same mass of blood in my veins, and the same flesh, now in Venice, which I carried about me three years since, up and down London streets, having, in lieu of beer and ale, drunk wine all this while, and fed upon different viands.

    The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to prose. Volume III (of X) - Great Britain and Ireland I Various 1885

  • Take matters into your own hands (and keep tailoring bills in line) with Smythson's ostrich-print calf-leather sewing kit. "

    Freakonomics 2009

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