Sentence examples for leather valise from inspiring English sources
A cracked and crusty leather valise.
They want to know what else I might have tucked into that leather valise of mine.
I scanned the mass of lost hopes and stopped short at a brown leather valise, with the name "Petr Eisler, KIND," meaning child.
THE last time I was waiting for my luggage at the airport, I saw a cracked leather valise stuffed so full that it might have actually encased a live pig.
He would never dream of travelling without his version of the nuclear football: a custom-made leather valise full of bone-handled hairbrushes, antique shaving utensils, fifty-year-old Italian linens, and an ample supply of silver mirrors, all of which would have been standard equipment for a gentleman's portmanteau two hundred years ago.
"I just had a gentleman come in with an older bag that he suddenly decided he had to replace," Ms. Mastramico said, holding up the worn but very serviceable leather valise that the customer left behind after buying a new roll-aboard to consolidate carry-on possessions as he bounded for his plane.
The refined look is meant to evoke the days when travelers wouldn't leave home without their leather valises and trunks.
Down on Broome Street, at MarieBelle, everything whispers antique: the gold-and-brown-latticed tins of cocoa, the sky-blue gift boxes with the feel of leather valises, the chocolate bars wrapped in vintage illustrations of pin-up girls in various states of undress.
Dating from the same period is a glass-beaded leather Sioux valise.
8″ x 13″ x 18″ black leather "Gra-Valise Petit Voyage" suitcase made by Lancel; 7″ x 12″ x 16″ brown and orange leather purse with embroidery on the side made by Lancel; 7.5″ x 11.5″ black leather clutch purse made by Christian Dior.
Each display was more dreadful than the last, but the one that hit me hardest was the suitcases: a room-length mound of leather and cardboard valises once packed with the illusion that the owners were headed for a place where they could use their belongings.
