leather-faced

Boiling at the strange, leather-faced women who had come to the viewing and had broken down on their knees, wailing and beating the casket with their fists, making a familiar, requisite spectacle in the name of charity wine and coliva.

Breadcrumbs Alex M. Pruteanu 2011

Hot Springs is a place where Dick Hildreth, the leather-faced masseur at the Arlington Hotel bathhouse, describes his intention to vote for Clinton in the idiom of an old gambler who once gave rubdowns to Lucky Luciano, Meyer Lansky, and the Capone boys from Chicago.

Into the Story DAVID MARANISS 2010

Hot Springs is a place where Dick Hildreth, the leather-faced masseur at the Arlington Hotel bathhouse, describes his intention to vote for Clinton in the idiom of an old gambler who once gave rubdowns to Lucky Luciano, Meyer Lansky, and the Capone boys from Chicago.

Into the Story DAVID MARANISS 2010

Hot Springs is a place where Dick Hildreth, the leather-faced masseur at the Arlington Hotel bathhouse, describes his intention to vote for Clinton in the idiom of an old gambler who once gave rubdowns to Lucky Luciano, Meyer Lansky, and the Capone boys from Chicago.

Into the Story DAVID MARANISS 2010

Among the few dissenters was a leather-faced Louisiana fighter pilot named Claire Lee Chennault, who in 1937 left the service for his heresy and took himself to China.

Whirlwind Barrett Tillman 2010

Among the few dissenters was a leather-faced Louisiana fighter pilot named Claire Lee Chennault, who in 1937 left the service for his heresy and took himself to China.

Whirlwind Barrett Tillman 2010

Hot Springs is a place where Dick Hildreth, the leather-faced masseur at the Arlington Hotel bathhouse, describes his intention to vote for Clinton in the idiom of an old gambler who once gave rubdowns to Lucky Luciano, Meyer Lansky, and the Capone boys from Chicago.

Into the Story DAVID MARANISS 2010

Somewhere in the warm southern Mediterranean Sea, a leather-faced sailor with a pipe balanced gently on his chapped lip lowers his anchor for the night.

Adam Klappholz: Internet Down! An Anchor Wreaks Havoc on Global Economy 2008

On miniplots defined by mounded earth, leather-faced peasants planted soybeans, cauliflower and potatoes in early March sunshine.

Recapturing Olympic Glory Jonathan Kolatch 2008

Ah, such were the times of leather-faced privateers and buccaneers from the West Indies with their masted frigates and schooners laden with iron cannons and loaded with sea-loving, simple-minded, deck hands.

ThinkGeek :: Pirate Mug 2005