Sentence examples for a hard leather from inspiring English sources

With a hard leather belt taking the weepy out of a broderie anglaise skirt, and knickers wrested from the wee ring bearer's category, Ms. Philo sent out a sophisticated collection that showed, in its frothy cutout blouses and sandals jangling with charms, how to marry the kinky with the elegant.

The collection had a punk insolence, mainly for cummerbunds coated in what looked like metal dress snaps, but the overused reference didn't do justice to Ms. Demeulemeester's great sense of proportion (a metal-embroidered girdle worn low on the hips of a taupe jersey dress) or the boss elegance of a black wrap top worn with a hard leather belt and soft, low-riding pants.

They beat Pop on the head with a sap, a hard leather pouch filled with BBs, and then haul him to jail in Las Vegas.

In hurling an ash stick, called a hurley or camán, is used to propel a hard leather ball, called a slíotar (diameter 69 72 mm, weight 110 120 g, figure 1).

Wear a heavy jacket, preferably a hard leather biker jacket, as armor against scrapes and scratches.

In the 1850s, Irish town and county championships were regularly played, using a hard leather-covered ball on courts that were about 80 feet (24 m) long and 40 feet wide.

The nine fielders take up assigned positions in the playing field; one fielder, called the pitcher, stands on a mound in the centre of the diamond and faces the base designated as home plate, where a batter, holding a formed stick (a bat), waits for him to throw a hard leather-covered ball.

The pad may be: a piece of hard leather ( see next photo ), an acrylic block like the cutting boards used in kitchens, a plastic floor tile or even a sheet of paper folded many times.

A small, functional-looking room with hard leather seats and a wooden table placed squarely under a large clock.

By the 4th century bce, the simple ox-hide thongs described in the Iliad had been replaced by what the Greeks called "sharp thongs," which had a thick strip of hard leather over the knuckles that made them into lacerative weapons.

Tag yourself I am Derry's entire Tuesday-night-in outfit – a grey button-up shirt, blue adidas shorts, black knee-high socks, hard leather shoes; an outfit we will look back on, one day, as single-handedly starting the fashion movement "Mild Dad".