pig-skin

We used to bite bullets with the pig-skin casing/ Now we perfect slang like a gang of street masons

Nick Mamatas' Journal nihilistic_kid 2008

A wickeder and uglier brute never wore pig-skin; and I never put my leg over such a timber-jumper in my life.

Burlesques 2006

A wickeder and uglier brute never wore pig-skin; and I never put my leg over such a timber-jumper in my life.

Novels by Eminent Hands 2006

Val, who had picked him up on his retirement from the pig-skin in 1921, thought him an even better judge of men than of horses, incapable of trusting them further than he could see them, and that not very far.

Swan Song 2004

American cloth, that he asked me if it were not made of pig-skin.

Southern Arabia Mabel Bent

The people are so ignorant of what pig-skin looks like that they often handle it without knowing, otherwise they would not touch it.

Southern Arabia Mabel Bent

Thinking that she might as well share the pig-skin, she had, upon her husband attaining his majority, taken a dozen riding lessons somewhere near Regent's Park; had hacked irregularly ever since, and still, when off her equine guard, talked about a horse's ankles.

Leonie of the Jungle Joan Conquest

Football was a contest between classes, and a mob of 100 to 150 men on a side chasing the pig-skin over the Campus was a sight to make the football expert of today go into convulsions.

The University of Michigan Wilfred Shaw

Then with strength and gentleness he wrought with his tools, having cast nothing into the heat but the pig-skin; with mighty blows and delicate touches he brought thickness and substance into it, until a board looked at him from the flames.

Young Folks Treasury, Volume 2 (of 12) Various

Going to one corner of the smithy he picked up a pig-skin and taking the hammer in his hands, told his brother to blow steadily, neither to falter nor to fail until he passed the word that the work was done.

Young Folks Treasury, Volume 2 (of 12) Various