leather

“Oh, very simply; black trousers, patent leather boots, white waistcoat, either a black or blue coat, and a long cravat.

It was the jackal--Tabaqui, the Dish-licker--and the wolves of India despise Tabaqui because he runs about making mischief, and telling tales, and eating rags and pieces of leather from the village rubbish-heaps.

She took off her old leather shoes and tried on the silver ones, which fitted her as well as if they had been made for her.

Upon which a Currier stood up and said, “Sirs, I differ from you altogether: there is no material for resistance equal to a covering of hides; and nothing so good as leather.”