Leather-Stocking Tales

[ leth-er-stok-ing ]

/ ˈlɛð ərˌstɒk ɪŋ /

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noun

a series of historical novels by James Fenimore Cooper, comprising The Pioneers, The Last of the Mohicans, The Prairie, The Pathfinder, and The Deerslayer.

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Words nearby Leather-Stocking Tales

leather-lunged, leathern, leatherneck, Leatheroid, leather star, Leather-Stocking Tales, leatherwear, leatherwood, leatherwork, leathery, leave

How to use Leather-Stocking Tales in a sentence

The Canterbury Tales was, Strohm writes, “one of the volumes around which the new trade would organize itself.”
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With every stroke, her leather boot creaked under the weight of her leg.
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She tugged on the black rope that wrapped around his thighs and torso, her leather gloves creaking with each adjustment.
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A stocking stuffed with $324,000 in easily negotiable $20 bills weighs 132 pounds.
Congress’ Gift That Keeps on Giving|P. J. O’Rourke|December 20, 2014|DAILY BEAST

Or there he is, matching leather jackets with a baby-faced Bruce Springsteen.
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A leather swordbelt, gold-embroidered at the edges, carried a long steel-halted rapier in a leather scabbard chaped with steel.
St. Martin's Summer|Rafael Sabatini
The sleeves of his doublet which protruded from his leather casing were of the same colour and material as his trunks.
St. Martin's Summer|Rafael Sabatini
Monsieur,” growls the baron, “stone walls have ears, you say if only they had tongues; what tales these could tell!
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And the man who had done all this—a vulgar upstart out of Paris, reeking of leather and the barrack-room still lived!
St. Martin's Summer|Rafael Sabatini
He could lie in bed and string himself tales of travel and adventure while Harry was downstairs.
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