Instead there is a dark, leathery surface that speaks more of bookbinding than of painting.

It has a muscular interior and the leathery surface is covered in bands of minute spiny scales on short stalks.

At the subtle and practiced urging of the naked handmaidens a long slit had appeared in the leathery surface of the vast sausage-shape.

Then gradually the leathery surface below them began to sag, but slowly and evenly so that the ship's gyros had no trouble keeping them level.

The individual polyps are white and translucent, and project from the leathery surface when feeding, giving the colony a furry appearance.

It was manlike only in its general form, featureless, with a uniform, leathery brown surface, like a heavy-hided, hairless bear.

Each measures 10 by 8 feet and has leathery surfaces of painted, irregularly cut-up pieces of canvas.

When rain fell, its leathery surface puckered, into cups and held the water there until its local need was satisfied.

He scrambled up the gnarled and leathery surface of the leg-arm and clung to the humped top of the being.

Instead she found a cold, leathery surface that gave when she pushed it, like the skin of a ripe fruit.