The writer knew intimately a very mild, kindly old man who had a strop fashioned out of several thicknesses of Apache skins.

The Apaches had inflicted unmentionable torments upon him and his, and the strop was his dearest possession.

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The Strop of Hunger.

The Strop of Hunger.

No one who has not lived as a bachelor in London and been reduced-in respect of cointo the sum of twopence-halfpenny, can tell how excellent a strop is hunger to sharpen wit upon.

Next the Bible is Q's Anthology of English Verse, its brave leather cover rather impaired by the fact that for two mornings Boggley, having mislaid his strop, has stropped his razor on it.

"Pa say they strop 'em down at the carriage house and give 'em five hundred lashes.

And she had mammy called out and they had a strop 'bout as wide as any hand and had holes in it, and they started whippin' her.

Yes, Sir, you'll find that razor-strop quite...

The people of the rice coast, furthermore, had a special fondness for their own pearly staple; and in the sugar district strop de batterie was deservedly popular.

The Leading Gentleman drew his beautiful knife from its tawdry sheath and gave it a last loving strop on his horny palm.

A big, heavy-heeled strop.

You feed the strop into it like paper into a printing-press, and it eats up the leather as low people eat spaghetti, making all the time a noise like a mowing-machine.

"De shawl-strop folks what come in to take over de country tol' us dat us had a right to go to all de balls, church meetin's, an' 'tainments de white folks give.

Dey used a long leather strop cut at de ends.

he was jumpin' a rope an' hollering', 'Pray Marser', ever time de strop hit 'im.

Marse Jim, he had a strop er leather stuck in de slit end of a staff, an' he sho' did whup 'em layed 'cross a barrel.

Then he proceeded to strop a razor at one of the windows.

When Toole as Jacques Strop hid the dinner in his pocket, Henry, after much labor, thought of his hiding the plate inside his waistcoat.

There was much laughter later on when Macaire, playfully tapping Strop with his stick, cracked the plate, and the pieces fell out!

At these words he was wont to whet his razor, and as he drew it murderously up and down the strop, he murmured grimly to himself, "Lords, priests, hounds!"

His mouth was open as far as it could; his lips curled up in ragea sort of terrible grin; his teeth gleaming, ready, from out the darkness; the strap across his mouth tense as a bowstring; his whole frame stiff with indignation and surprise; his roar asking us all round, "Did you ever see the like of this?"

Then again, he may have been coolly figuring on how he might turn the rescue to his own advantage in some way; for he seemed to have that little black box slung over his back by means of the strap; and it was easy to understand that it must, as Andy had guessed, contain something of considerable more value than a mere camera.

He was going aloft to fit a strap round the main-topmast head for ringtail halyards, and had the strap and block, a coil of halyards, and a marlin spike about his neck.

He was going aloft to fit a strap round the main-topmast head for ringtail halyards, and had the strap and block, a coil of halyards, and a marlin spike about his neck.

The little ape sits on HATSHEPSU'S chair, And with a solemn and ironic eye He sees TAHUTMES strap the balsamed hair Unto his royal chin and wonders why; He sees the stewards and chamberlains bow down, Plays with the asp upon HATSHEPSU'S crown, And thinks, "A goodly land, this land of Khem!"

n the midst of his shield, and the spear of Sir Gylmere burst into pieces, but Sir Launcelot's spear held, so the breast-strap of Sir Gylmere's saddle bursting, both saddle and knight were swept entirely off the horse and to the earth, where Sir Gylmere lay altogether stunned.

The Indian then asked the meteor to give him his head strap, which he refused.

The Sioux, determined to gain his point, told the meteor if he would give him the strap, he would kill a big enemy for him.

The last offer was six wigwams full of dead enemies for the so much coveted strap.

The meteor was finally bribed, gave up the head-strap, and the Sioux went home with the great glory of having outwitted a meteor; for, as they met no more, the debt was never paid.

When her son, in defiance of her tears and threats, commenced settling his household difficulties in his own way she took her head-strap,[Footnote: The head-strap is made of buffalo skin.

The women fasten their heavy burdens to this strap, which goes around the forehead; the weight of the burden falls upon the head and back.

But when, after having doubled the strap four times to prevent its breaking, she found herself choking, her courage gave wayshe yelled frightfully; and it was well that her son and others ran so fast, for they had well nigh been too late.

She almost invariably hangs herself; when there are so many beautiful lakes near her where she could die an easier death, and at the same time one that would tell better, than where she fastens an old leather strap about her neck, and dies literally by choking.

The best howdahs are light, single-seated ones, with strong, light frames of wood and cane-work, and a moveable seat with a leather strap, adjustable to any length, on which to lean back.

Let me say here that I have broken thousands of four and six-mule teams that not one of the animals had ever had a strap of harness on when I began with them, and I have driven six-mule teams for years on the frontier, but I have yet to see the first team of unbroken mules that could be driven with any degree of certainty.

Each pair stands on the folded side, rolls the blanket roll closely and buckles the straps, passing the end of the strap through both keeper and buckle, back over the buckle and under the keeper.

It was a sight worth seeing to come upon those little night-clubs of drunken and bewildered moths, hanging on to the sweetness with tragic gluttony,an easy prey for Henry's eager fingers, which, as greedy of them as they of the honey, would seize and thrust them into the lethal chamber, in the form of a cigar-box loosely filled with bruised laurel leaves, which hung by a strap from his shoulder.

Buso is saying a charm to make the stem of the bagkang-plant grow tall enough to form a handle for the betel-nut tree, so that the children may be dragged down (tubu, "grow;" baba, "rattan strap forming the basket-handle;" mamaa'n, "betel-nut").

It's all right at this hourRalph's still swinging on a strap in the elevated.

Jack carried his crutches on his shoulders, as also the long strap which, when he used them, was to pass over his neck, and down under his foot, keeping it off the ground.

Once fairly away from the town, he took his foot from the strap, shouldered his crutches and again they trudged along upon their journey.

Into this Jack also joyfully tossed his crutches and strap.

On a certain day a small strap of leather was missing.

A few days after, the slaveholder's son confessed that he stole the strap himself.