The shell is flexible and covered in a black leathery skin - hence the name leatherback.
Mel Gibson is leathery but quick and alert, his eyes darting this way and that.
But stay away from the salmon pastrami, leathery strips of fish wrapped around slightly soggy pretzel sticks.
What can he do to save that tanned, leathery hyde we have come to know so well?
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So adding a tannery to the village center will let you make cloth (very leathery cloth, I suppose).
There are hostas whose big, leathery leaves are quilted like a comforter and outlined with yellow or white edges.
Apparently satisfied, the leathery old matriarch taps the side of her head, points at my face and undulates away.
With Jake Gyllenhaal as the leader of the boys and the leathery, serious Chris Cooper as his heroic dad.
But over the years she got used to it, and her leathery mouth would seize the bait as a prize.
It's true that favas left to mature on their stalks too long will have a leathery skin that must be removed.
Such skin absorption occurs in other mammals, and the leathery look of elephant skin is deceptive it actually has a rich blood supply.
We passed a couple of stilt houses, and a bent woman with a leathery lined face suddenly crinkled into a smile and called out a greeting.
Still retained is the V8's leathery smack of an exhaust note, which in the C7 will be belted out from a polished quad-pipe exhaust.
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The leathery shelled mammals, which can be found in 10 states throughout the Southeastern U.S., are the only animals besides humans known to carry leprosy.
The tortoise's leathery legs-how ancient, the sailor thought.
That said, it really does feel quite nice in the hand -- the device we played with had a leathery grip -- there are a number of carbon fiber and wood options available, as well.
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Here's a Fourth of July I won't forget to tell my grandkids about: the time I ate a dinner of leathery ham steak and partially thawed frozen peas, alone, in the bar of the Horseheads Holiday Inn.
Even the surviving Mercury astronauts--a plumpish Wally Schirra, a leathery Scott Carpenter, a frail Gordon Cooper--were there, showing the colors the way they always did when a member of their elite fraternity was setting out on a mission that would kill him or not, but in either event would provide him with that transcendent thrill he got nowhere else.
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