"Russia leather" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... too ready and eager to break away and go gathering goat-feathers. If it had not been for that I might be a millionaire or the President of the United States or the leading American Author, bound in Red Russia leather. I might have been a Set of Books, like Sir Walter Scott or Dickens or Balzac, and when people passed my house the natives would say, "No, that isn't the city hall or the court-house; that's where Butler ...
— Goat-Feathers • Ellis Parker Butler
... the girl now seated herself, on a bench of polished teak, from Mindanao. And, turning to her father, who had sunk down in his favorite easy-chair of Russia leather, she asked with ...
— The Air Trust • George Allan England
... dark-coloured objects, such as the bindings of books, Russia leather, blotting-cases, leathern bags, &c., the picture must be previously covered with a mixture of opaque white varnish, taking care not to pass beyond the outline of the design. On the following day, proceed according to the instructions given ...
— Enquire Within Upon Everything - The Great Victorian Domestic Standby • Anonymous
... Russia leather portfolio, which had once been red, but which time and use had turned black. It ...
— Other People's Money • Emile Gaboriau
... club chair, covered with red Russia leather and gently inclined his head in response to Heideck's ...
— The Coming Conquest of England • August Niemann |
