parchmenty

Something about his dry parchmenty skin was repulsive after all those months of holding sweet new flesh in her arms.

2009 April « Tales from the Reading Room 2009

Something about his dry parchmenty skin was repulsive after all those months of holding sweet new flesh in her arms.

More Exercises « Tales from the Reading Room 2009

The parchmenty little "Limp Pocket Scorebook", glued and taped for posterity's scrutiny, remains a treasured relic in the Clifton archive.

Armistice Day recalls Arthur Collins' imperishable cricketing feat | Frank Keating 2011

Forty-four years on, and according to my rushed, racy riffle yesterday through parchmenty old library cuttings, next week's Stiles sale leaves the 1966 winner's medals of the Charlton brothers, Jack and Bobby, as the only two still snug at the back of the original recipient's sock drawer.

Tears for souvenirs as Best and Stiles memorabilia go up for auction Frank Keating 2010

I am professor-colored today: brown skirt, tweed jacket over parchmenty shirt with flared Boleyn-sleeves.

Life at Sea yuki_onna 2007

From mature years I look back with a shudder upon the number of parchmenty sandwiches which I ate, the reservoirs of lemony water which I drank, in order to be in that lovely creature's society.

Humorous Masterpieces from American Literature Various

Old Gaunt, smoothing and smoothing the lined, thin cheeks of the parchmenty, thin-nosed face that Frances Freeland had thought to be almost like a gentleman's, answered: "I thart you said you was goin '."

The Freelands John Galsworthy 1900

From the smack of her tongue she was once a West Country cottage woman; from the look of her creased, parchmenty face, she was once a pretty girl with black eyes, in which there is still much vitality.

The Foundations John Galsworthy 1900

From the smack of her tongue she was once a West Country cottage woman; from the look of her creased, parchmenty face, she was once a pretty girl with black eyes, in which there is still much vitality.

Complete Plays of John Galsworthy John Galsworthy 1900

Corporal Mignan, wrinkling a thin, parchmenty face, full of suffering and kindly cynicism, used to call them '_mes deux phénomènes_.'

Tatterdemalion John Galsworthy 1900