The Soviet Union allowed Old Believer communities to continue their traditional way of life on the condition that they hand over all sable skins they produced.

The Russians found the sea otter far more valuable than the sable skins that had driven and paid for most of their expansion across Siberia.

In return, Ediger promised to deliver one sable skin for each of his male subjects.

She was naked and the first light touched her sable skin with a lemon glow.

In 1645 he returned to Yakutsk with a cargo of sable skins.

She studied her reflection for several seconds, touching the wrinkles that creased the smooth sable skin around her catlike eyes.

Beside the house was a shed for the storage of sable skins.

Pale hair waved around sable skin when at last she nodded.

He forced his grand vizier to buy huge quantities of sable skin for his palaces.

These were covered in gold leaf, which had started to peel so that the soot-black wood underneath showed through like dense sable skin under flimsy gold armour.