Something about his dry parchmenty skin was repulsive after all those months of holding sweet new flesh in her arms. ❋ Unknown (2009)
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. ❋ Frank Keating (2010)
The parchmenty little "Limp Pocket Scorebook", glued and taped for posterity's scrutiny, remains a treasured relic in the Clifton archive. ❋ Unknown (2011)
I am professor-colored today: brown skirt, tweed jacket over parchmenty shirt with flared Boleyn-sleeves. ❋ 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. ❋ Various (N/A)
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 '." ❋ 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. ❋ John Galsworthy (1900)
He sat rather crumpled, in his low armchair, with hands clasped round a knee; and a little crucified smile haunted the lips of his lean face, which, with its parchmenty, tanned, shaven cheeks, and deep-set, very living eyes, had a certain beauty. ❋ John Galsworthy (1900)
What a parchmenty, precise, thread-paper of a chap, with his bird's claw of a hand, and his muffled-up throat, and his quavery: ❋ John Galsworthy (1900)
Corporal Mignan, wrinkling a thin, parchmenty face, full of suffering and kindly cynicism, used to call them '_mes deux phénomènes_.' ❋ John Galsworthy (1900)
His face was parchmenty, his cheeks sunken, his lips compressed into a long, straight line; his small grey eyes had an anxious look, yet were ever ready to twinkle into a smile. ❋ George Gissing (1880)
But this head with stretched and parchmenty skin, with the teeth whole, the hair abundant, was before our eyes as in life! ❋ Jules Verne (1866)
When the insect rapidly moves its wings, the file of the one lobe is scraped sharply across the horny margin of the other, thus producing the sounds; the parchmenty wing-cases and the hollow drum-like space they enclose assisting to give resonance to the tones. ❋ William Henry Giles Kingston (1847)
The insect has an inflated bladder-like shape, owing to the great convexity of the thin, firm, parchmenty wing-cases; the little creature being of a pale green colour. ❋ William Henry Giles Kingston (1847)