She tried swallowing, but her mouth was too dry, tongue like boot leather.

I thought you was after boot leather.

You'd need to file your teeth first: the meat of those goats would serve as boot leather.

They are tougher'n boot leather, an' most of them have rustled a few head in their time.

"The bottoms of our feet were like boot leather," she said.

The adults can grow to twenty feet and they're tough as old boot leather--about this big around.

His foot dropped into some cavity below and broken branches gouged his ankle through the boot leather.

And he heard slow footsteps behind him, soft scrapes of boot leather on stone.

He went barefoot, the soles of his feet hard and supple as the finest boot leather.

The meat was tough as boot leather, the cheese nearly rock hard and the bread not much softer, yet they tasted like a feast!