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Ol 'leather's instincts are still good, as there is a bit of body snatching going on.

Superhero Prose Fiction: Northwest Smith - 07 The Cold Gray God Blue Tyson 2008

Ol 'leather's instincts are still good, as there is a bit of body snatching going on.

Superhero Prose Fiction: Jirel and Northwest Smith - Black Gods and Scarlet Dreams Blue Tyson 2008

Ol 'leather's instincts are still good, as there is a bit of body snatching going on.

Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror: Northwest Of Earth - C. L. Moore Blue Tyson 2008

I've had several lovely leather bags that were supposed to work as backpacks, but didn't really, because the straps were too thin and cut into my shoulders and leather's heavy!

Archive 2007-02-01 Susan Palwick 2007

I've had several lovely leather bags that were supposed to work as backpacks, but didn't really, because the straps were too thin and cut into my shoulders and leather's heavy!

Graceful Aging (or: Use What Works) Susan Palwick 2007

"They're old and the leather's already shot," I said.

There's Something In A Sunday Muller, Marcia 1989

The leather's a little bit worn at the edges, but you can fix that all right.

Left End Edwards Ralph Henry Barbour 1907

This suit-case hasn't been in use very long -- see, the leather's almost unworn -- and those things on the dressing-table are new.

The Paradise Mystery 1899

But by reason of that fact Jochanaan comes perilously near being an old-fashioned operatic figure -- an ascetic Marcel, with little else to differentiate him from his Meyerbeerian prototype than his "raiment of camel's hair and a leather's girdle about his loins," and an inflated phrase which must serve for the tunes sung by the rugged Huguenot soldier.

Chapters of Opera Being historical and critical observations and records concerning the lyric drama in New York from its earliest days down to the present time Henry Edward Krehbiel 1888

In a nutshell, cotton for the canvas is organic and bought from the co-operatives of producers at twice the market price, in order to help finance community projects; rubber for the soles is tapped from wild trees; the leather's ecologically tanned, without the use of nasty, polluting chrome; and the company's working on finding colour-fast natural dyes that give good, even colour.

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