In the doorway of the tailor shop is a dark-complexioned man in a gray sharkskin suit.
"The Wailing Octopus"
Harold Leland Goodwin
He was dressed in an expensive white sharkskin suit with a white American-style shirt and a black tie.
"The Golden Skull"
John Blaine
The salt made the oar handles like sharkskin; our knees were cut to the bone with salt cracks; our hair was stuck to our foreheads; and our lips were cut to our gums and you whipped us because we could not row.
"The Phantom 'Rickshaw and Other Ghost Stories"
Rudyard Kipling