What is the stomach but a living sack, or purse of untanned leather, wherein we keep our means of subsistence?
"Luck or Cunning?"
Samuel Butler
Of untanned leather, too, were their trousers and veldschoens.
"Tales from the Veld"
Ernest Glanville
The boots, however, of his companion seemed a tight fit for climbing, and at last a straggling bramble that crossed the way turned up two little black points, like doors, to show the way to the untanned leather behind the bright polish.
"Little Tora, The Swedish Schoolmistress and Other Stories"
Mrs. Woods Baker