As the bank passenger-- with an arm drawn through the
leathern strap, which did what lay in it to keep him from pounding against the next passenger, and driving him into his corner, whenever the coach got a special jolt--nodded in his place, with half-shut eyes, the little coach-windows, and the coach-lamp dimly gleaming through them, and the bulky bundle of opposite passenger, became the bank, and did a great stroke of business.
Tarzan stooped and lifted a
leathern pouch from the grisly relics of a man.
And now Little John took up his stout staff, at the end of which hung a chubby little
leathern pottle, such as palmers carry at the tips of their staves; but in it was something, I wot, more like good Malmsey than cold spring water, such as godly pilgrims carry.
Meantime render up thy trust for a time.'' So saying, he took from Gurth's breast the large
leathern pouch, in which the purse given him by Rebecca was enclosed, as well as the rest of the zecchins, and then continued his interrogation.
Having thus fixed fifty hooks to as many cables, I went back to the north-east coast, and putting off my coat, shoes, and stockings, walked into the sea, in my
leathern jerkin, about half an hour before high water.
You must go straight on till you come to the castle where the horse stands in his stall: by his side will lie the groom fast asleep and snoring: take away the horse quietly, but be sure to put the old
leathern saddle upon him, and not the golden one that is close by it.' Then the son sat down on the fox's tail, and away they went over stock and stone till their hair whistled in the wind.
For defence each man wore a coat of interlaced
leathern thongs, strengthened at the shoulder, elbow, and upper arm with slips of steel.
Comes through the padded door, And binds one with three
leathern thongs, That the throat may thirst no more.
A richly wrought
leathern girdle, studded with precious stones, and held in place by a huge carved buckle of gold, clasped the garment about her waist so that the upper portion fell outward over the girdle after the manner of a blouse.
They were small men, wiry, active, and well-built, with lank black hair tied up in a bunch behind their heads with a
leathern thong, and
leathern also were their loin-clothes.
Edgewise moved along the oily deck, it operates like a
leathern squilgee; and by nameless blandishments, as of magic, allures along with it all impurities.
Michel Ardan, always easy, dressed in thorough traveler's costume,
leathern gaiters on his legs, pouch by his side, in loose velvet suit, cigar in mouth, was full of inexhaustible gayety, laughing, joking, playing pranks with J.