bootlining

Updated: May 29, 2025

As to Cut-'em-in-half, I am going to show him up; he had skin the color of a bootlining, hair as red as the hide of his ape, green eyes, and what makes me think with the old women that he was a magician, is, that he had a black tongue." "Black tongue?" said Barbillon. "Black as ink!" answered Pique-Vinaigre. "And how is that?"

Eugène Sue - Mysteries of Paris — Volume 03