His sockless feet were in old base-ball shoes of "eelskin," which were of the exact color of his coat, a dull green, like moldy, dried peas. ❋ Frederick O'Brien (1900)
A small New England town makes a good lens through which to view American history and its codependent relationship with nature: First, the eels feed the citizens, and then they become material for industry in the form of eelskin boots, only to be replaced later by leather. ❋ Anne Trubek (2011)
As the Highmurf had promised, there on the third shelf was a fat tome bound in deep blue eelskin, the gold-leaf words on its spine long since worn to flecks. ❋ Matt Dennison (2010)
Edit if I am not mistaken when you buy fine leather goods made of “eelskin” it is actually hagfish that this comes from. ❋ Unknown (2007)
“I don™t think so,” he said, and stepped on the phone with his eelskin cowboy boot, cracking it into a hundred jagged pieces. ❋ Kurtz, Sylvie (2005)
Beneath the shawl, her dresses were built, year in, year out, on the same plan: cut in one piece, buttoning right down the front, they fitted her like an eelskin, rigidly outlining her majestic proportions, and always short enough to show a pair of surprisingly small, well-shod feet. ❋ Unknown (2003)
French popped the polished brass clasp on an elegant eelskin briefcase and removed a thick sheaf of papers. ❋ Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- (2002)
But India rubber was too thick and became sticky when warm, lambskin and eelskin little better than bare hands, for they required seams and, once used, could not be used again. ❋ Lackey, Mercedes (2001)
The doctor had put on a small riding wig with an eelskin cue, and was getting into his greatcoat. ❋ Unknown (N/A)
Tough rags, or leather thongs fastened to a handle about a foot in length, will make an effective lash, but the best whips are made from pliant leather thongs, or still better, from a dried eelskin. ❋ Alfred Rochefort (N/A)
Sooner or later, I should be wanting to go back to England, and I didn't want to get there and find Aunt Agatha waiting on the quay for me with a stuffed eelskin. ❋ Unknown (1928)
He was a little more portly, his hair was dressed now in an eelskin, and he looked every inch the man of affairs that he was. ❋ Winston Churchill (1909)
His square, saffron face was just the same, his little jet eyes snapped as brightly as ever, his hair -- which was swept high above his forehead and tied in an eelskin behind -- was as black as when I had seen it at Kaskaskia. ❋ Winston Churchill (1909)
We stood watching the Hessians as they passed in the lamp's rays, officers smooth-shaven and powdered, wearing blue and yellow, and their long boots; soldiers with black queues in eelskin, tiny mustaches turned up at the waxed ends, and long black, buttoned spatter-dashes strapped at instep and thigh. ❋ Unknown (1899)
Sometimes it was done up into a knot at the back of the head, bound with eelskin. ❋ Harry Hamilton Johnston (1892)
